The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-06-30
Southern Hostility to EmiSra-
ton from the North.

An important report in reference to the
industrial prospects of the South was re-
. Gently read before the New York Chamber
of Commerce, by Thomas W. Conway, who
was formerly assistant commissioner OF the
freedmen $ bureau for the State of Louisiana.
During the latter part of the year 1860 he
commenced Jealous efforts (Which We're
unanimously endorsed by the important com
mcrcial organization referred to above to
secure the introduction of capital and emf
grafton from the Northern States and from
Europe, into the Southern States. He
found among business men of all parties,
with very rare exception, in Philadelphia,
New York. Boston. Springfield, and various
other cities which he visited, "a general de-
sire to see the prosperity of the Southern
States speedily restored, and Il very general
willingness to aid the planters IN every pos
siblc manner, either by loans OF money, al,
vanccs on crops. or by the purchase Of land. y
Many made personal inspection of the
South, with view of cmigratlHg thlthcr.-
''The agricultural year commenced Tor the
South with readiness on the part OF the
whole North to lend as much money as
Southern planters needed, M order to bring
back their former prosperity. There was IL
spirit of kindness for the South which would
have readily condoned the past wrongs sni-
tcred from tia section Of the country. -
Merchants. huSbandmen, mechanics, labor
crs, and thousands of discharged Union sol
tiers were ready and anxious to find pcrma-
ncnt homes there, and to carry with them
IN abundance of capital to rebuild her cities.
reclaim her waste lands and restore her plan
tations to their pristine fertility. But un.
happily the splendid opportunities for speedy
resuscitation which were thus fire .ly and
generously presented were not improved
Anx;nuc &c tho iDnnyrri Ia cd ,,lantprs nrn
to obtain Northern money, and ready as
thousands of half furnished rebels are to beg
food of the commissionaricS of the freed.
mems bureau in almost the same breath in
which they clamor for the removal Of that
bcncGcent institution. still so many evidences
Of intense hatred of the North exist. ''that
Northern men of unmistakahe loyalty are
not safe excepting where Union bayonctS
secure their protection.' Mr.. Conway est.
mates that through his personal cXcrtons
three millions of dollars were taken by
respectable men into various Southern States
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, with
n view to its being invested there in pur-
chascs of land, in loans or advances to plant
crs, and in other WAYS" But these eXpor-
"rs have nearly all returned disgustcd with
the treatment they received (having in some
instances been threatened with murder and
with conviction that loyalty is as odious
throughout the South as treason ought to be.
Some who have ''as yet Remained, write that
MS soon as they have gathered this years
crop they will return to the North. They
complain that the civil officers are nearly all
filled by men who are disloyal, and that law
is administered with bias Of Partially for
Southern rs against Northern men. Through
out Louisiana there is simply one rule OBJ
served. 1t is that none but rebels shall be
in Office and many of the Federal appoin-