Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-16
AMOvING APPEAL.

From the N. o. Picayune.l
If the Houston (Texas) Journal does not
cease urging emigration from these States to
the Lone Star ex-Republic we shall be com
PEELED 10 make 'OdOrous' comparisons be-
tween our soil and theirs, our seasons and
theirs, our crops and theirs, aye, and our
stock-raising capacities and theirs.
We trust that our people, here and in
Texas, will give up the habit Of roaming,
living in tents, picking up stakes every year
or two, discontedly, and never having a
home to which they and their children and
children's children can look, with constantly
increasing admiration and affection, from
generation to generation.
Two faalts especially mar Southern agri-
cultural life the first is the attempt every
year renewed of making one great crop, at
every expense Of present comfort, and
the next is Of wearing out the land
with their mode of using it, with the ex-
pectation Of leaving it ere long and moving
to new countries. When the home comes
to be spct intended to be every year
adorned more and more, and made every
year the more and more productive and valu-
able, so as to remain ever in the family a
memorial Of the providence Of his ancestor
for his descendants, and his desire to beget
in them a specific affection for the spot of
their birth, then, indeed, shall we have such
an era Of happiness and prosperity as will
make the whole South a Garden Of Eden.
Bring men from the North and the West,
from Europe and Asia, but do not entice any
Southern man TO renew the nomadic life
which has been our bane hitherto. We
must give up the idea that land is to be made
poorer by cultivation or use, but cultivation
must be made 70 enrich il, and use TO add to
its productiveness. Instead of denuding it
Of It's virgin beauty, we must adorn it more
and more, and the older it grows in our use
the more lovely must it be to the beholder.
Not only does such course as this add
value to the possession in the real estate
Rrket, but it adds incalculably to the hap
=, less Of those who live on and near it, re-
lires the tastes and habits Of the young and
purifes the lives and hearts Of the older
ones. No need then Of resorting TO books OF
travel and the romances of British life TO
learn Of rural establishment, sylvan beau
ties and the felicity Of country life. With
our soil as rich as it is given us by nature,
and such a climate as ours, is it not shame
10 us that we wear il out when hoary-headed
old England is growing younger, more Wig.
orous and stronger under foot every day
No; our people must not move from State
to State, but remain where they are, pre-
serving present fertility and restoring that
which has been lost, and making their
homes yearly and daily more and more at
tractive, making room along side Of them
for the crowded ont people Of other lands
and States, and building up permanent set
Elements capable Of supporting the best Of
schools and churches, and other means Of
moral aud mental improvement at their
very doors. In this way only can there be
real prosperity; for il is as true Of a whole
people as Of individuals, that ''the rolling
stone gathers no moss