The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-08-28

N.S VI hiaosoc'oSetlS, tne STeaC enemy
OF South Carolina. She has not quite
eight millions acres of area, you have
| nineteen millions. But she has one and
quarter millions population to your
seven hundred thousand, and her income
IS two hundred and eighty-nine millions
per annum to your forty nine millions.
| hat difference is here, and vet the
difference might havo been in your ia
vor, 1t is curious that this principle
and incontrovertible fact IS demonstra-
ted every day in the United States,
under almost every ones eye, and yet
should fail to be observed by any but
very few. In our own city Of Charles
ton the great Gre Of 1888 caused the
erection OF numerous buildings and the
influx therefore Of a large number Of
mechanics and laborcrs. and what was
the result =? The city property increas-
ca largely in value, hundreds of small
houses were erected on greens and farm
grounds, anu her boundaries had 10 be
extended. Alas these are gone a
city of SO, 600 has dwindlcd down to
80, 900, and the value of property has
decreased more than proportlonably.-.
let the town Of Newberry increase Just
double III population, and her lots will
assuredly double in value, and am Ger
tain, if our State could double her white
population, every acre of her lands
would be worth at least twice what 1t is
worth now and, therefore, what sacri-
iices are made now TO facilitate SO dcsr-
able consumma,ion, will be invest.
ments beyond value anil rncc. The
Hon. Robert Walker, former Secretary
OF the Treasury, has made the calcua.
ton, that if The lands in the slave States
were brought up to the value Of lands
i'll the free States their additional val
uc would he $5,S5G,2IG GIG. Alas
South Carolina has helped to people al.
most all the new States OF the Union,
whilst her own white population has
increased almost the slowcst Of any. A
father might here have five sons, but
he was avcrse to divide his plantation,
and therefore, fv,.r Of ,lcm had to 90
abroad and help to make and increase
the riches Of the Southwest. It seldom
entered into the head Of any Of your
andlcss younger sons, that by remain
ing in their mother State they nigh,
make fortune rs fast as any where
else. And yet, how many Europeans
and other strangers have come here
and have found their utmost prospcr
w.
i, 1t has been suggested by mauy that
the CooIie should be imported to take
the place Of the labor That has been lost.
Wonld you go through another abol.
tlon after term of years? But tho
price of good healthy Chinaman is
from $l50 to $500 TO import, besides
his wages, which are over hundrc,i !
dollars year. They are said TO be
good, steady laborcrs, but vicious and
dirtilv immoral. And then there is be-
sides in the way Of sucIi project, that
The policy OF tie General Government
is totally opposed to 1t, the Introduction
OF new races bound 10 service and labor
being contrary TO the true interests Of
South Carolina to yet more muilipl
'hc variety Of races ia her inhabi
ta'is.
In Virginia great efforts arc made in
encouragement Of immigration, bu. II is
SAID great impediment is the cirrum
stance that tl:c native residents look
with coldness and suspicion upon new
comcrs. must confess That The aprre.
henslon of your prcyudiccs against The
foreigner discouragcs me more Than any.
thing else. It. has taken me m ,rc ;hnn
two years ofpersisient and earnest cl-
E,rts 10 carry this measure through your
Legislature, AID the strong opposition
was based npon nothing better than
bare prejudice. Iwould urge you now
10 reflect, and ifyou conclude hat ,his
isyonr only refuge and hope Of reliel,
short ct quitting your native land, hat
you will then strive TO overcome every.
thing, yonr own nrcjudiccs, all inconvc-
nicnres. a necessarily slow proerc 8. all
all, thai yon will cooperate heartily
TO effect the object at last. II was urg-
en- as an objection that so many 1risn
and Germans had fought against us il,
the late war Dnt, lave no, The Tri i,
and Germans Of The South, aln,,r,i unon
imonsly, batticd for our cause? What
more does ono brave man require Of
the other, than that no should be trne
10 the people among whom he lives?
The $4,000 adopted citizens that were
members OF The Southern armies need
, not be ashamed oftheir record, ifit is
an honor 10 be brave and faithful TO the
last in 'lost cause" And, after all,
il any defeated people on earth can af-
ford to forgive their conquercrs, it is the
people of the South. For, never was
more heroic contest made, and never
was glory earned in greater profusor,
nor ever better deserved. Yes, the
Southern people can ;;(lord to forgive
thcir defeat, their great susFerings, all
their losses, their present disfranchise-
ment and tyrannicai oppression f1r the
bright page which history will hereafter
inscrikc to their memory. Then let us
never DO so very foolish as TO exclude
from our learlhstones those who want
! to become our friends and bre,hrcn.--
Whoever desires to come South, will
como with the intention Of becoming
useful citizen among us, be he 1Iish
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