The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-12

States" II Is the same old story, told OF a
new place. Wherever q settlement has been
effected, the result has been Disappointing
Only moderate fortune has attended the de-
tsobment that strayed down almost to Pata-
gonia, and that has been the most promising
OF ALL CorSova was not only prompt failure,
but the whole enterprise has long since been
abandoned, the stock and property sold out
and the last of the adventures returned. The
same is true in brief, tf all the Mexican pro-
jects; the same is rapidly becoming true OF all
Brazilian experiments. For example, the
chief colony, on the Riberia, near Iguape--a
settlement founded by one Dunn, furiOusly
secessionist clergyman, who declares he wants
mainly to "keep away from Northerners''-is
anything but prosperous. Here and there an
enterprising man has met with success; but
this was true also before the war. What we
mean to say is that the Southern colonies, as
colonies, are dead failures. A recent traveller
very well says that most Of the emigrants
cannot work to advantage, and are ''too proud
TO beg-for anything but passage home"
The other day we had news from one of the
West Indies that Southern colony was to be
organized to proceed thither; and subjoined
was an account Of a couple of hurricanes which
had swept through the length and breadth Of
the island, succeeded by a brace of earth
quakes, which laid waste what the tornadoes
had failed to desolate. Never in history, per-
haps, did SO many simultaneous attempts at
colonization, proceeding from one source to so
many quarters, meet failure 80 uniform. Some
of the Huguenot exiles from France perished
in distress, but others founded fourishing
colonies in England, Switzerland, and America.
Some of the American colonies from England
were hapless, but great success followed others.
A fatalistic failure, one would almost say, at
tends, on the other hand, the Southern
schemes of emigration. In some places, as in
Mexico, the protecting Government goes down,
and the colony dies out with the coming in of
the new and hostile rule. In others, as in
Honduras, there is 'Home Government" in
Europe failing to make good the local promises.
In others, as in Brazil, there is the suspicion
and hostility of the native people, lack of
energy and enterprise, want of mechanical
Improvements for working plantations, diff
Guilty in procuring labor. In South America,
in general, war and taxes, even worse than in
the Confederacy, oppress the adventurers.
And if nought else can wreck the experiment,
nature comes in with her devouring earth
quakes' and whirlwinds.
We are glad that so few comparatively Of
the Southern people essayed expatriation.
Those few rushing off in haste repent at
leisure, and return without reluctance, con-
tent to remain. Their experience is useful to
their neighbors. There will be no depopula-
ton of the South. Let us take sort of re-
preventative example of the issue of these
efforts. Ex-Governor Harris, of Tennessee, in
whose arms Sydney Johnson died on the field
of Shiloh, and whose intensity of hate to the
Union led him at the close of the war to Cor
dova, where he was made President Of the
Confederate Colony, now returns at last'to pay
his respects to the man whom he and his
associates probably regarded as the personif-
cation OF all that was most detestable-Parson
Brownlow. Governor Harris said," the
account informs us, "that he had come to give
himself up, and expressed much gratitude for
the kind mention which the Governor had
made of his family in his message" His sue
cessor has paroled him till next spring. These
schemes, we say, as organized colonies do not
succeed; and it is fortunate that they fail. Our
country is the proper home for our people,
Northerners and Southerners alike. She
needs the labor of all her children, of all lati-
tudes, in order to fulfil her destiny, and they,
too, it seems, can i'll do without her.