The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-16
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1866.
Southern Inducements to Labor and Capt.
tai from the North,

Southern inducements to Labor and Capt.
tai from the North.
ONE of the greatest needs OF the South is
Northern capital and immigration. Its losses
by the war have been so great that, without
capital from abroad to assist in repairing the
waste, and developing the natural resources
of the country, years must elapse before it
can regain its former prosperity. The Mont
gomery Advertiser, in an article on the
policy of Alabama in encouraging immigra-
ton to that State, says:-
with reference to the immigration from the
North and West, much has been said by travel
ling correspondents of newspapers OF those
sections, who often form opinions from isClaGed
and unusual cases, about the personal safety of
persons emigrating from the North and West
to the cotton States. In reply to this, we can
assure all contemplating removing here that no
one, whetha possessed of capital or n)t who
will conform TO the laws of the State, or OF the
city, village, or county where he may locate-in
other words, who intends to behave himself
need apprehend the slightest demonstration OF
personal violence"
This reads very well, but the practical
question with the man from the North who
is interested In this matter is. how it will be
necessary for him to act to "behave himself?"
If he Should happen to hold what are called
radical views, and should advocate and de-
fend the Civil Rights bill, for instance, and
should discuss and publish and vote for his
sentiments as he would have done at the
North, would that be called behaving him
self?
Public sentiment at the South is especially
tyrannical. 1t practically constitutes there
fha 10 Nn Of ho;o
make his home in community where he is
liable to be ostracized on occount of his poll
tical opinions. This country is too large,
and the opportunities for making a compe-
tence are too general, for any man to remain
long where he is Stunned and made odious
for exercising the common rights of an
American citizen.
II the press Of the South may be taken as
a fair representative OF her people, we fear
that the inducements to Northern emgrants
are such as will rarely be influential For
instance, the following extract from a late
number of the Memphis Apalanche shows
what the feeling towards loyal men from the
North is in that UNANIMOUSLY notorious city.
1t says:-
Mississippi and Arkansas, that The house OF VOL
CoTT, SMITH d Co. Is composed OF their worst
enemies. Every Southern man should shun this
house as he would foul Ieprosy. WoLCoTT is
radical; he is tor negro suffrage, negro equality,
negro bureaus, for disfrancnlsement = every
thing calculated to degrade his neIghbors, the
men who feed him, and the Southern man
should fly from his doors with the same instincts
of danger that rats desert a burning barn. VOL
CoTT's talk about his cheap goods is all fudge.
Southern men-men that support JOHNSON, who
are for peace, who oppose negro equality and
negro suffrage, and who are for the treeborn,
native Tennesseeans exercising all the rights
enjoyed by WoLCoTT offer goods for sale as
cheap as he or any of his radical contederates;
and the Southern man who passes by such men
and gives his patronage to his enemy is an un-
principled migrate, and ought to JON the radicals
at once"
This is about what we might expect from a
city where mobs burn school houses and
churches, and murder unofending men and
women. 1t is unpleasantly suggestive, too, of
those old days before the war, when freedom
loving citizen from the North could travel
anywhere in the world and express his senti-
ments with more safety than in the South.
We regret to see these things. They are
not hopeful indications. They are part and
parcel OF the old order of society which we
had hoped was abolished They belong to
the dark ages of slavery-not to this more
enlightened and liberal day.
But the people of Tennessee can have their
own way about this matter If they don't
want Northern settlers and capitalists to
come among them, they have only to keep on
in this strain. Fortunately there are some of
the old slave States-Missouri, for instance
where better spirit prevails. And they are
having their reward, too, in tide of immi-
grafton which is putting new lie into every
department of their industry and trade.
The Loan Bill as Reported.
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