New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-12
EXPIRATION.

We copy from the Times, an English paper edi-
ted and published in the city Of Mexico by Gov.
Allen, the following paragraph, in which the
worthy editor gives advice in his habi.ualy frank
and unreserved manner:
In1nljgrdtioqs.- To our friends in Griffin and
Atlanta, Georgia; in Jersey city, Mississippi; in
Montgomery Alabama in Dayton, Ohio; and in
New Orleans, Louisiana, we say, come to Mexico,
Immediately, if you have any money. Even small
capital will answer. The best bargains in land
and stock can now be had for cash-a small por.
ton for cash and the balance on long time. To be
plain and candid: if you have no money don't
come; stay where you are until you can accumu.
late some Good health is the first thing an emf
grant with a family looks after; then good land
and convenience to market. We recommend the
lands in the neighborhood Of Cordova, Orizava and
Jalapa, for they combine all three of these requis-
ties. There is, within short distance of Cordovo,
large district OF unsettled country, all for sale
most reasonable terms. 1t is the very best land
in the world, aud as healthy as any aluyian lands
in Louisiana and Mississippi. Then, we repeat,
come. There is room for all who will emigrate
with little money. We have secured small
piece of land near the beautiful city of Cordova,
which we intend to improve as we can make the
money. IT'S here where we expect to live the
rest of our life, and spend our declining years
amidst our own fruits and fowers-resting liter
ally under our own vine and fig tree, free from all
9oVi
Very naturally Allen and his friends desire to
induce emigration from the United States to Mex
leo. One reason is that they feel lonely and wish
the companionship of those who speak the same
language with them, and who have been associa-
ted in the same ill-starred enterprise. We have
observed that immigrants to our country associate
according to their respective nationalites. They
are fond of gathering together for social or festive
purposes. The company of their compatriots
soaces to some extent, theirlongng for their native
land, feeling which is quite natural and COM
mendable. Even when familiar with our language,
as the most of them readily become, they prefer
to converse in the tongue taught them by their
mothers. They try to renew the scenes Of the
home land and take pleasure beyond description
in reviving the memories of childhood and youth.
The wide world over, the want which clouds the
brow and saddens the heart Of the enigrant is the
want Of companionshp. This abiding sorrow for
the homes they have left may lessen from year to
year as new ties are formed, but is never entirely
cured. None can know the full meaning of the
word home until they have been long and far away
from the places and persons endeared to them by
early associations.
It behooves those who think of emgrating to
Mexico or Brazil to reflect well over the very i'm
pertant movement. We have discussed the sub.
ject repeatedly in its economical aspects, and have
said enough to convince our readers that Southern
people who are making bare support cannot
reasonably expect to improve their condition by
going to any other country. Considered in its SEN
tinental aspect, emigration from our Southern
States to any of the Spanish American countries
promises nothing but a weary lifetime of regret.
1t will involve the surrendering of very many ties
of association and kindred, and promises legacy
of companioness solitude. The people of the
South who can emigrate with means enough to
secure comfort abroad are few in number. II
colonies are formed the colonists will be strangers
to one another. Families may in many cases go
together, but even they must leave behind them
their other relatives. This inevitable separation
from kinfolk and friends is hard to bear by those
who only remove from one State to another; il
will be found far more painful when going among
scenes and people entirely strange, foreign and
uncongenial.
The disastrous events of the past few years have
endeared all Southern men and women to each
other. A common cause and common sufferings
have created a vast fraternity Of the South, and
every survivor of those who labored for the same
object looks upon every other with far more
affection than before the war. We do not wish to
see these new bonds of brotherhood severed by
voluntary exile. We would rather greet the re.
turn of those already gone than hear of more de.
partures. Let our heroes come home, even though
they come to an impoverished country badly gov.
erned by unfrendly and relentless Legislators
of the North. This is by no means the only
people ruled in contravention of their will and in
a manner not of their own choice. Suchhas, in al
ages, been the lot of mankind, with few excep
tons. Yet far greater and more oppressive
tyranny will not reduce these noble States of ours
to the level of Mexico or Brazil.