Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-21

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ereise of Republican citizenship. And it is
one of the pressing exigences of the country
!; asthe very basis of reconstruction, that some
pan must be devised, by which the lands Of
the South may be divided among these who
shall occupy and till them. Will any sane
man in his extremity hold on to straw when
: be can grasp the strong and saving limb
What is now the value of lands in Newberry
Is it worth now what il was worth in 1860
Or, perhaps, there is no rate at all. No one
can tell what it is worth, or whether it is
worth anything. Land is always cheap where
J. Iabor is uncertain and scarce. Whenever Ia
boring power increases aud becomes produc-
tive, lands rise in Value accordi1gly.
In the sparsey populated regions of Amer
lea an acre OF land may be earned by one
days labor, whereas in Belgium, Holland,
Germany, England and France it will take
The labor of nearly three months only to pay
The rent for an acre of land, and the labor of
Eve years will hardly be enough to purchase
LIZ. Our State has area enough for four mil
Ilions inhabitants and lands will not bring
ltheir maximum price. Ourresources will not
.Iibe fully developed, nor will our golden age
Eappear until our people are that numerous.
And the nearer you approach that degree of
population, the nearer will you approach the
inaximum degree of wealth and prosperity !;
and whoever helps to effect such an end is
| benefactor of his fellow-c citizens and worthy
Son of his mother State. You know che
wealth and power andinfuence of Massachu-
setts, the great enemy ofSouth 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 an
/ mum to your for;y-nine millions. Wtat a
difference is here, and yet the difference might
have heen all in your favor. 1t is curious
that this principle and incontrovcrtible fact is
demonstrated every day in the United States,
hnder alm5st every ones eye, and yet should
| fail to be observed by any, but very few.
In our own city Of Charleston the great fire
| OF 1888 caused the erection of numerous
buildings, and the influx therefore Of q large
humber of mechanics and laborers. And
what was the result2 The city property in
lfcrcased largely in value, hund' eds of small
houses we're erected On greens and farm
grounds and her boundaries had to be exten
Eaed. Alas these times are gone, city OF
| so 900 has dwindled down to $4,000, and the
value OF properly has decreased more than
proportonaby. Let the town of Newoerry
increase Just double in population, and her
lots will assuredlv double in value, a am
ceriain, if our State could double her white
7 population, every acre Of her lands would be
worth at least twice what it is worth now
and, therefore, whatever sacrifices are made
now TO facilitate so desirable consumma!lon,
will be investments beyond value and price.
Erhc Hon. Robert Walker, former Secretary
Of the Treasury. has made the calculation,
Etbat if the lands in the slave States were
Ebrou chit up to the value OF the lands of the
SsssAe States, their additional value would be
rs $50. .2lG, GIG dollars. Alas South Carolina
has helped To people almost all The new States
of the Union, whilst her own white popula-
ton bas increased almost the slowest ol any.
A father might bere have five sons, but he
was averse to divide his plantation, and there
FORE four Of them had 10 go abroad and help
to make and increase the riches ofthe South
west. 1t seldom entered into the head of any
of your landless younger sons, that by re-.
naming in their mother State they might
make fortune rs fast as any where else.
And vet how many Europeans aud other
strangers lave come here and have found
their utmost prosperity.
1t has been suggested by many that the
Cooie should imported to take the place
of the labor that has been lost. Would you
20 through another abolition alter q term OF
years? But the price of n good healthy
Cbinaman is from $l50 to $500 to import,
besides his wages, which are over hundred
d.llars wear. They are said to be good:
steady laborers, but vicious and dirtily immo'
raj. And then there is this besides in the
way Of such project, that the policy of the
General Government is totally opposed to 1t,
the introduction Of new races bound to 'er
vice and labor being contrary to the true In
tcrest and laws Of the United States. 1t would
certainly be contrary to the true interests OF
South Carolina to vet more multiply the va
rietv OF races in her inhabitants.
In Virginia great cil,rts arc made in en-
couraycmcnt OF Immigration, but it Is said
great impediment is tie circumstance that
The native residents look With coldness and
suspicion upon ew cumers. must confess
that the apprehension of your prejudices
against lie foreigner discDurages me more
than anything else. 1t has taken me TWO
wears of persistent and earnest Efforts to car
nv this n, asure through your Legislature and
the strong opposition was based upon nothing
better than bare PREJUDICE. would urge you
now to reflect, and if you conclude that this
is your only refuge aud hope of relief, short
of quitting your native land, that you will
then strive to overcome everything, your own
preiudices. all iuconyeniences, necessarily
ssiox progress, all-al, that you will co.ope-
rate heartily to effect the object at last. 1t
was urged as All objection, that so many. Irish
and Germans had fought against US in the
late war. But, have nor the Irish and Ger
mans of the South, almost unanimously, bat
tied for cur cause? What more does one
brave ian require of the other. than that he
should be true TO the people among whom he
lives? The $4,000 adopted citizens that were
members of the Southern armies need not be
ashamed Of their record, if it is an honor to
have been brave and faithful to the last in a
" lost cause" And, after all, if any defeated
people on earth can afford to forgive their
conquerors, it is the people of the South.
For never was more heroic contest made,
and never was glory earned in greater profue
sion, nor ever better deserved, Yes, the
Southern people eau afford to forgive their
defeai, their great sufferngs, all their losses,
their present disiranchisement and tyrannical
oppression fer the bright page which history
will hereafter il scribe to their memory. Then
let us never bc so very foolish as to exclude
from our hearthstoncg those that want to be-
come oar friends and brethren. Whoever de-
sire to comes South, will come with the inten-
ton of becoming useful citizen among US,
be he Irish or German, Frenchman or Roman,
yes, or from New England for our enemies
will not come to develope our soil. If they
do come, it will be in the garb of political