The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-05
COLUMBIA.
Saturday Morning, January 5, 1857
Labor and Capital for the South.

will be scarce, and that, in order to
ill up the vacuum thus created, other
labor must be introduced to cultivate
the land, or else they must remain,
to an alarming extent, uncultivated,
to be followed by 4 scarcity OF food,
if not famine.
The want has to be supplied in
some way, and the subject is univer-
sally attracting, the attention OF the
planters and farmers Of the South
and Southwest The New York
sStaats Zeituny, one OF the ablcst Ger
man conservative papers IN the coun-
try, in noticing the efforts being
made in various States to induce the
settlement Of foreign immigrants at
the South. very justly says:
''It is just in proportion as q State
has made liberal and generous laws in
regard to foreign immigration, that
the better part OF those strangers
have been attracted to it's territory,
and cast their lot among those who
showed themselves willing and anx-
ious to receive them. The Western
States, by their wise policy, have
thus increased in wealth and popula-
ton, and left other States, less libe-
raj, far behind them
The Zeitung estimates that, since
1890, when the first census was
taken, over 100000 of immigrants
have landed upon our shores, and
that each one brought with him, at
the least calculation, $1OO in gold,
amounting, in all, to S6OO,O00 They
also brought personal property, tools
and other articles, worth at least as
much.
But this was the least part OF the
material wealth brought into the
country by these strangers. Our
German contemporary thus speaks of
the immense benefit conferred upon
the country:
"What was far more valuable We're
their strong arms and hard hands
their habits OF industry and energy,
their knowledge Of agriculture and
European arts and handicraft- all of
which were increasingly used to de-
yelop the then dormant wealth of the
Eastern and Western States, and
which has raised them to their pre-
sent condition of unparalleled pros
perity. These 100000 Of people,
like an immense human stream, have
spread over the Western part OF our
great republic. They have tripled
their original number, and have peo-
plea States and changed territories
into States They have cleared the
forest and civilized the wilderness,
and made waste places bloom like
rose gardens Thy helped TO build
up our large cities from the Atlantic
to the Pacific
This IS the very sort OF labor and
intelligence the Southern States now
need; but to arrive ut the best mode
Of procuring it's now an important
question. As the Zsit,ag, i'll the first
paragraph quoted, intimates, liberal
Legislative enactments should be
adopted as regards tEe foreigner,
whose labor VIC need He should be
able to purchase and hold property;
his political rights and privileges
ought to be us early secured to him
as possible. But, in addition to this,
there must be similar hberality Oh
the part OF landowners who require
their services, and who arc seeking to
raise the fortunes Of the South and
rescue her from her present and
prospective impovcrishmcnt
We will cite all instance, as in
some sort an example, very suggest
i've to those who desire to cultivate
their lands. 1t is stated that farm
er Of Tyrrel County, North Carolina,
possessed Of a large estate, and not
being able to obtain labor at home.
adopted the following plan: He
measured off ten lots, OF fifteen or
twenty acres each, and built plain
but comfortable cottages upon them.
He then went to New York and easily
obtained ten good men with families,
on the following conditions: They