Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-16
EXTRAORDINARY LETTER.


The First Chapter PhIIOsOPhieaI-En
what Consists the Ultimate Glory Of
tsae South-HOw Wealth Must be
WOn-A Magnificent PrOperty-A
AIagnIlIceuf Prize-Lands for the
Poor and RIeh-AnOaherS SO. BarfhOIO-
news Day-Let Gen. Thomas be Mas
ter.
Correspondence Of the Union and Dispatch.
MEMPHIS July IA, 1867.-That excel
lent journal, FFdzer's Magazine, asserts the
rapid degeneracy of the English people.
1t ascribes this decay to the absorption of
all real estate by landed proprietors, to the
expulsion Of the iaboring classes from the
country and their aggregation in cities. 1t
SAYS "that the degeneracy Of the country
people il undeniable, and that in no other
civilized land and in few savage lands has
any class Of human beings a look SO cheer
less, SO unreasOning, SO little human, as the
English agricultural laborer without the
light either of intelligence or gninIal spirits
IN his sullen face The middle classes
have rapidly disappeared, and at last, be-
cause Of the monopolization of land by
thirty thousand of thirty milliens of peo-
pie there exists two classes of society
masters and serfs.
POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
NECESSITY.
Real estate should be as readily trans.
ferrable as bills of exchange. In that
il is not consisted the orig.aal necessity
for that incubus upon the body polite de
nominated the Chancery Court. By the
way all courts, save criminal, are nui-
sances and with laws for the collection of
debt should have no existence, and when
accounts are adjusted by the Bankrupt Act
| would fain hope that the annihilation of
courts for the collection Of debt will put a
period 10 the credit system and to the er-
| penditure of millions now squandered on
courts, lawyers and their adiuncts. There
was never a condition Of society in which
the necessity for the distribution of land
was 30 great as at this hour in the South.
Negroes, few Of them, would make indus
trions farmers, while all men recognize the
necessity for foreign immigration. A new
| white population is rapidly absorbed and
/ assimilated in habits and modes of think
/ ing 10 the original Inhabitants Of the c0un-
try. There is a barrier, which forty centu-
/ ries, that look down from the pyramids"
/ have never removed-enduring az the Chi
nese wall, between Africans and whites.
/ Providence inhibits the admixture Of these
two races Mulattoes are prOverbially
short-lived. The policy of the South
consists in promoting the influx into those
States Of that vast body of EuropeOn i'm
migrats which, for years past, has steadily
| directed it, course towards the Northwest.
HOW THIS END MUST BE ACHIEVED.
The press of the South can change the
course of foreign and eastern migration.
If il were known in Europe that crops Of
cereals are as abundant here as the North
west, that the people of the South, for six
months past, have denoted their energies
mainly to the production of bread and ba-
con instead of cotton and sugar, if the fact
were universally Published that while food
is thus made cheap, that cultivated farms,
the best on the continent are sold for less
than uncultivated tracts owned by the Cen
trail Illinois and other western railroads if
these truths were bruited abroad by the press
Of the country, that institution, of which we
hear so much, the Southern Asylum Land
Lottery, wouldhave an easy task to achieve
Southern lands, the richest and most pro-
ductive, in a faultless climate, on railway
lines, in the vicinage of excellent markets,
near that arm of the sea known as the Mis-
sissippi-such lands, producing everything
| that may be grown in Illinois, and besides,
cotton, tobacco, sugar and rice wo;ild be
bought aud cultivated by multltudes who
now flock to'sterile plains and inhospitable
regions of the remote Northwest These
upland farms, on railway. in Mississippi
and Tennessee. cost the Southern Asylum
an average Of seven and half dollars per
acre. Any purchaser, of moderate industry
: and agricultural skill, would pay for his
farm with the proceeds of the first crop.
, Why may not such facts be made known
in Europe, and why does not the Southern
press devote a larger share Of attention TO
that peaceful and benefcent revolution to
be achieved by the subdivision of "broad
acres" and their transformation into small
farms? By this means alone can
evils of race conflicts be ayerted, aud in
the communication. of plans promulgated by
che company referred to, consist the future
peace and prosperity Of the South. Evils
that afilict England and conflicts of races
may alike be averted by the successful
operations of the Southern Asylum Land
Lottery.
COL. aALLAwAY's RESIDENCE
Since have adyerted 10 this subject, /
may interest many Of your readers 10 know
J that in one Of the schemes, the first to b.
drawn, is Col. NJ C. Galloway's residence
in the very heart of Memphis, at the correi
of CouEt and Sd streets, constitutes a CAPT
tai prize. This property is worth S20,00C
in gold. In this scheme, tickets cost So
In another, by which upland farms are dis
| tributed, all of them in railway lines il
Mississippi and near this city, cost only
one dollar. The poor, By this agency, vii
be removed from cities into the country
!. and the South must confess beneiaction
done by the Southern Asylum, not only by
the subdivision of plantations" int
farms" but because Of It's charities I,
widows and orphans.
GIN. THOMAS TO SUPPORT THE BRowNLoy
oIIsARcHY.
N Trade is defunct 10 this city. The PEG
IS pie are absolutely alarmed BY the deviltr
Of politicians. Negroes tell Of Barbe
Lewis midnight orgies and inCantations il
LOYAL League club rooms-h9w they an
sworn 10 adhere 70 the loyal men, "-hoV
they are imbued with the idea that prop
erty must be equalized-how they mus
arm themselves for election day, an
how the Irish and negro riots {
last wear are 20 be avenged. / hope tina
:, Congress will overthrow this inferna
despotism, and subject Tennessee 10 ia
domination Of Gen. Thomas Women an
= children are no longer safe. Ten thOnsan'
blacks from this State, Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi viii be brought here 10 yote-a
armed. For this reason men are sendln
;. away their wives and children. II Brown
-. shfarss-his douqhfy hpdv guarl-