Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-16

I Large bodies Of land viii be divided
I aud made productive whether by con-
fiseation-by slicing Off 10 pay govern.
I mental demands and expenses and ouT
own--by slow, inadequate saie--by I'M
migration--by the procurement OF labor,
/ by eolOnization-by tenantry-or finally
! by the sheer decadence Of an exhausted
( people, whether II comes as an absolute
! alienation of title or by the defiinement
Of imaginary lines, we do not know. nor
need we TO enquire. We assert the in
evitable fact, let him disprove II who
I can.
Lands will be divided; he who sees IT
1 first aud ne who lyest aids i'm carrying
I out fiat 80 unalteFsble-in recognizing a
( fact 80 stealthily creeping, and yet 50 inn
/ possible to push from its time held place in
the progress of events, will be the surest
I gamer thereby, the greatest benefactOr,
/ the woFthiest revOlutioDist. To the
/ Christian, the historian, and the fiDan-
4 ciar, there can be but the question, Hon
I And after briefly noting some Of the
/ above indicated methods of breaking
land,u we propose to enunciate some OF
/ the arguments pecuniarily and otherwise
/ profitable, to show t0ity the fee-simple
/ tenantry Of this part Of Gods vineyard,
] should assist in this great enterprise,
assist largely, assist with honest useful
| and unselfish zeal, and assist at once
and if there should appear sufficient in
I terest In the undertaking, we will IN a
4 future article attempt TO show as we con-
4 ceive hOtg the desired end may be accom-
/ plished, and we assure cur readers the
time is past when with common inter
est clear before US, and oUr own and our
neighbors' necessities coming gaunt and
/ grim upon us, any can halt TO question
if in doing this thing, some other may
be more advantaged than himself
Immigration, whether singly or in
bodies OF appreciable value or Of profit
able kind, is not apt TO go unless lured by
advantages more specious than we can
/ offer, or for agricultural purposes to an
inaccessible region however elsewise at
tractive; nor is the spontaneous imnli-
grant, pioneering for he knows not what
4 essentially an agriculturist or proverbial
for building up countries to their perfec-
ton nor do even they come to lands
+ like ours unless brought, invited or in
duced nor do we at all induce, or by
selling lands at their now actual low
value, permit them among US. Nor il
we did all these and were accessible,
could we hope for a population from vol
Untary, unOrganiZed immigration before
we should perish for want of it? Imn,i.
4 grafton tUiU not, of its OJUR accord, peO-
pie oar country for oar benefit.
1 Colonization, to be successful, must be
I self-sustaining, each colony in itself or by
adjunct and contiguous sub colonies re-
cipFooally sO-mutuRllY aiding and en-
ouraging-cOmposed of enough people
l'0f various trades, callings and phases,
unieod by ties Of blood, friendship, assO.
citation aud interest, to make homoge.
neOus whole with at least the oneness oil
q persuasive sFfiueuce-a miniature
edition of "hOme.E That colony will
ever do best which can transplant and
acclimate most Of the Uastoms of its
fatherland, and that people will make
the worthiest colonists and best ROpula-
tion, which has the most customs worth
transplanting. To these ends there il
required either large tract Of suitable
territory, or what is better for the colo
nists and the country and its people,
I. cQntignOgs bodies Of land, with the
cheering home feeling and encourage
ment, and the moral influences of 8
whole, which we can better appreciate
than define.
/ Ld5or.Tthfsr a trial even so short
only tkrsf5ns az has been able to sustain
hpmself in any degree of confidence, and
though we may yet hope much from
him ia the possibls thorough discipline
and organization, and in the generalnes:
Of the work Of large plantations of sugar
cotton, rice, or tobacco, we would find
that with us and in a very large pOr-
tiOn of the old slave states, the cOoliS
would require more attention ana super,
intendence than we could afford TO give
him and then, for the multitudinou,
small duties of our life and farming, the
want of servants and of skilled aud reli
able help, would be still unsupplied II
the wholesale planting referred to, a.
promising profit from the coolie, success,
looks essentially to the greatest aggre
gate OF small effects, regardless more
especially IN the osse of he cheap ooolie
/ of the numbers required to produce it.
while in the nature and diversity OF oul
pursuits, success necessarily balances be-
tween greatest efficiency and fewes
I numbers.
The cOolte falpd can do a great ded
Of i0ork, so can The ant, 6W neither ICil
( do ours.
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