The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-16
From lhe N. o. pIoaHnae.

full observers who have visited those
and similar countries, and of q similar
region we have personal knowledge.
We believe we are without prejudice
against either the people, the climate,
or soil of those countries. We are
prone TO think that whatever be
thought of the form or name Of gov
eminent, that actual freedom is more
to be enjoyed in those countries than
in this. We are satisfied that they are
fertile and healthy, We have no doubt
of the friendliness of the present in
habitants and of their governments to
those who go from among us to be-
come citizens therein, and to aid such
as are useful !; but we do question
whether any gain will accrue to nine
tenths of those who now propose to
emigrate. Nay, we are convinced
that they will go from plenty into des-
titution; from ease into misery. Let
us look at each ofthese countries.
. Brazil is nearly four thousand miles
from us to that portion to which our
people propose to emigrate, 1t buys
its -four in the United States. 1t is
over crowded with professional men.
1t has small need for mechanics in the
estimation of its present inhabitants.
The emigrants would hardly be able
to employ such remuneratingly, for
many years to come. The lands &C
cessible'to our agriculturist, which are
good lands, are atleast l50 miles from
the seaboard, and railroad or two
leading over high mountain ridges, and
which must make travel and freight
especially expensive, from the only
means of access thereto. We all know
that railroad freights are much higher
than by our rivers. Besides, we have
competition with railroads by our
wagon roads. The latter are almost
unknown in Brazil They are yet to
be made. If hard working, able
bodied farmers, laboring men, 90 out
there, in the process Of time they will
make neighborhood roads, and roads
to railroad depots; but their access
to markets and ports of shipment will
only be through these two great soil
tary railroads, that of Dom Pedro
Segundo, out from Rio Janerio, and
the Sac Paulo, from Santos. Can the
most prolific soil be as remunerative
to the planter under such circumstan-
ces as are even the poorer portions OF
our own country
The labor is as difficult to get there
as here. The very object of the Bra.
lillian Government in promoting i'm
migration is to procure that which is
lacking now, the Industrious working
of the soil. Gradual emancipation
has already been decreed. Slaves, all
accounts tells us, cannot be depended
upon there, andit is presumable that
most of those who own them will, if
they be useful, try to keep them. II
they are not profitable, no one should
want them. Besides, what emigrant
will have the means to buy them ?
Such as have means can do better else
where than in Brazil.
British Honduras has the advantage
of having English government, En-
glish law, English language, and in
being readily reached. It has also
streams, and the mahogany
cutters have made some roads. But
the population is small, and the few
laborers discharged from the employ
of the mahogany cutters would be
taken up by three or four score of our
upland planters, to say nothing Of
those who have made their Thousand
bales or more. Labor is cheap and
plentiful now, because there are only
small patches in cultivation Let men
20 down there with the means to EN-
Dlov few laborers and then there
will be far greater dearth oflabor there
han here. Nor can you depend upon
he laborers of that region. They are
either Jamaica negroes like our freed
men here, Spanish Americans who
ire like the lazy and shiftless lower
lass of Mexicans, or few Caribs, I'M
civilized and unable to learn farm
york as done by us. #
In both these countries there are no
chools such as we have. In Hondu-
as, they will have them much sooner
nd easier than where the Portuguese
anguage is spoken, and where COM
few can read it, But even
n Honduras there can be no such ed
cational advantages as our poorest
Inferior towns and neighborhoods
upplv. Belize is fed on mess pork
nd flour bought in New Orleans < but
hildren must he sent thence to the
United States to be educated In Bra
il, even this will be impracticable.
hey must grow up uneducated, or
heir parents must become suddenly
ch to send for and employ tutors.
10 not say you will teach them your
Elf You must work to get them
read.
After all, none but lahoring mon
an make their own living in either
ountry; not even all kinds of labor
Ig men for only such as are Injured
, farm work, who go with an axe in
ne band and grabbing hoe in the
Their, who know how to pursue the
osest economy, who can bury them
Ives for weeks in the forest and never
ok for society, such only can hew for
an Independent and pros
arous condition in the tropics. "No
her need apply" Not even the
lung man, willing to work hut as vet,
fused to country life. He cannot
nploy the requisite economy, nor
Iapt himself to the necessities Of
oods life, as can the practical labor
9 farmer If such a man feels like 1
coming a tiller of the soil, let him
, into the country nesr by, and in .
s own or some adjoining State. !
tier becoming a clearer end farmer .
the soil where every appliance is at :
nd, he may with some hope of sue
go go to new country. 4
Such as are not prepared to live in d
e rough, to eat coarse food. to go 9
thout "soeietyn for.months. if not !
ars. to lose sight of newspapers and o
oks, and to find their sole reward in +
noval to be that they have exchang. 2
an unfriendly government for =
itude and isolation. would do well p