Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-10-26
THE soUTH,s GREAT WANT.

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 Tho following very sensible article, we take from the Handsboro' Demo- crat, and should Be read by every far- mer throughout the South. The sound, healthy doctrine contained therein, is too lamentably true, and should sink deep into the minds of our people, our planters more. especially should profit by it's perusal: '~ti .
 Even granting that the ten Southerri States are fated 10 remain in their pre- sent unfortunate and anomalous cbndi. ton for many years to come, politically, there is one thing that will make even that condition endurable, and that is immigration--the immigration amongst us of men who will willingly undertake the agricultural labor necessary to de- velop the productive qualities of the rich and fertile acres of the South, now bringing forth only weeds and bram- bIes, because "the laborers are few.' It has been demonstrated since the war, on limited scale, however, but to a certainty, that the soil of the Southern States will produce. in supcrabundant quantity, of excellent quality, rye. wheat. corn, xhops. grapes, peaches, pears, apples, indigo, castor beans, su- gar cane, cottoL figs, peas, and thou sand other things, for home consump- ton and exportation, and for which there can ever be found a market and ready sale.- Then what we most Want is immigration to our waste places of a hardy, industrious race not afraid to take small farms and work them well men who vii. take the place of the worthless portion of the negroes-men who will make the present wilderness of the South "Blossom like the rose" Men of this character will be wei comed by the true men of the South,
 Come they Frances vfnyard land,
 Or Norway's groves of pine"
 In the language of gentleman of Lou isiana-'Why is it that immigration does not flow in upon us, and fill mp those vacant lands, where there is room enough to support and sustain in comfort, population one hundred times as great as what is now here, when every thinking man knows that no section Of country returns so beau tiful reward 10 the Intelligent and it.. dustrious laborer as Eastern Louisiana i? 1 The old whining wall, that q white man cannot cultivate this soil, has long since died ont. To-day, thousand white men with merry hearts and jo- cund song, anc busy on their farms. reaping the fruits of their long sum mcr labor. Go where you may, and you will find them earnestly at work"
 Who before the war ever dreamed of planting rye. or that it would grow and prosper here? Yet the luxuriant patch es--not fields--that wave here and there show clearly how easily and how profitably 1t can be cultivated.
 Who has ever tried hops, as crop, which now sell for seventy-five cents per pound; and which, when once planted, seems indigenous, and can scarcely be eradicated from the cotton fields? They require but the labor of planting, polling, and gathering.
 Broom corn is considered a pest in the crops; but if properly planted, the land ofa county or two would produce enough to make sufficient number of broo,ns to supply whole State.
 Who has planted, for sale, the castor oil bean, that grows so wonderfully large and bears such immense punches without any labor? Who has an oil press, and who can construct one?
 Who cultivates indigo except here and there small patch? ~
 How many make their own sugar, molasses, tobacco and rice which are peculiar. crops that are most'easy and most sure?
 Who in all this sunny land dry fruits for sale? Does any one can either peaches, apples, pears, apricots, necta- rines, raspberries, strawberries, toma- toes or cucumbcrs, and the thousand other fruits and vegefables3
 Arc any of these canned fruits sold in our markets? to where you will-- even into every country store, and there you will find them for sale. They are brought from the North and East, and sold here, where they can be pro- duced at half what they cost in the North. st
 Who ever heard of can of shrimpp Yet enough of this article could have been put up to produce a million of money.
 Who ever saw drum of dried figs put up here and offered for sale? yet this land produces them of the first quality, and in the utmost protusion.
 Here where flowers of every hue and sweet odor, bloom almost the year round, who can tell what one ever made an ounce of periumery? yet we [ import and consume thousands of dol lars worth every year. M 4 | With the finest clay and the purest sand in the world, who ever thought of erecting glass or carthenware fac | tory?
 Of the millions of willows that grow around us, who ever attemptedto make basket? and with cypress in untold quantities who ever saw a Southern bucket, machine made?
 Who has any machinery for making