Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-08-27
From the Charlottesville Chronicle.1
Shall Northern Men Migrate to the South

/ 1t rom Lle CQarlOLCoSVlIl0 CnrOnlclel
Shall Northern Men Migrate to the South
The cotton and sugar lands of the South are
| among the finest fields for enterprising settlers
in the world. The States of Louisiana, Missis-
| sippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Caro-
lima cover some 100000 square miles, an area
as large as France and Great Britain. They
have population of about four and half mil
lions France and England have population
of sixty millions. The country, it thus appears,
has about ne-thirteenth of the population it
can maintain. There is room for fifty y-odd mil
lions of people in South Carolina and ON the
Gulf
But it is developed that this magnificent en-
pire is to be placed under the political control
of some two and quarter millions of negroes.
They have under the operation of the late acts
of Congress, become the heirs and occupiers of
all this territory. They will legisate for it, and
governor it. The white man will live there by
sufferance. They can elect the Governor, the
Legislature, the Judiciary, the magistracy, the
sheriffs, the clerks, and all the State and many
of the county officials.
Now the question arises, who is going to
move into such community? What young
man from the North wishing to seek his for
tune, is going to settle in New Orleans, to be
governed by negro mayor and negro board
of city officials? What respectable laboring
man in Illinois or Indiana is going to drop down
the Mississippi river into the State of Missis-
sippi or Alabama, to find himself in a Haytien
Empire
The present law of the country amounts to
prohibition against moving from the North into
the South. There are narrow-minded white
men in the South, who say they prefer negroes
to Yankees, and that they want no Northern
immigrants. Their views are literally realized
by the working of existing laws The Yankees
are shut out from the Cotton States by block
aiding squadron which cannot be evaded.-
There is wall established between the popula-
ton of the North and the fertile fields of the
South more compact and impossible than the
earthern rampant which Hadrian built in Bri-
tain between the River Tyne and the Solway
Firth, to shut out the Picts and Scots.
The Ancient Britons were so annoyed by the
irruptions of the Saxons from the Cimbric Cher
sonese that they instituted an officer whom they
called the Count of the Saxon Shore whose
especial business it was to keep out the inva-
ders Every President of Board of Registra-
ton in the South is a Count of the Saxon
Shore" the result of whose labors is to keep
off all incomers-although they come with the
spade instead of the sword.
We do not agree with our old Bourbon party
that it is to our interest to keep the Northern
man out of the South We believe, when he
comes here, he will be not only valuable ac-
cession to our labor, but that he will become
one of us. We therefore want him. And we
therefore want to show him that under the pre-
sent arrangement he is excluded from the
territories. The North insisted on keeping
the old territories open and free, so that North
ern men might go there and settle. They car
rled their point, as in our opinion they ought
to have done, for the idea of fastening slavery
on the virgin soil of the Republic was the great
blunder and sin of the South. We have now
ten other territories-once Sovereign States
the finest soil in the world, and at the very door
of the densey populated North: shall the
Northern people be permitted to settle In these
the abstract right but shall they be permitted
to settle in these territories? Shall they prac-
tically enjoy and exercise this privilege?
If you can make the climate unhealthy for a
Northern constitution, you can nullify their alb
stract right If you can make it dangerous for
a Northern man to show himself among the late
Confederates, his abstract right is nothing. If
you can set up some form Of civil government
or some prevailing religious creed which Is OBJ
noxious to him, you may still shut him out
Or if you can secure heavy Coolie or Chinese
immigration, it may disgust and drive him Oft
Or If you can Atficanize the South-that as the
thing.
So that, as matters stand, the white people
of the Gulf States are ruined, and the white
people of the Northern States are prohibited
from migrating to the South. Universal white
misery The blacks alone rejoice. 1t is a sa-
turnalia for them. They do not look into the
future. They harbor no anxieties. They. are
suddenly governors, State attorneys, judges,
militia generals their only thought is OF the
present.
1t is a magnificent empire to consecrate to an
idea 1t is noble race the white race Of the
South, to sacrifice to a Borrioboolagha expert
ment It is wonderful instance OF self-abne-
gation-that of the restless Northern man CIV
ing up one-fourth of the United States to two
millions of negroes-tO practice ln-When SIN
gle State or Territory would be an ample play
ground.
Now, can this thing last? Is it in human
nature, or common sense, to keep up this sham?
1t cannot be done The Republican party
cannot violate the public sentiment of the North.
1t must either come down from its pegs, or be
supplanted. The cry may be suppressed for
the occasion, but it must ultimately find vent
"I'his country belongs to the aohite man.
The colored man may live in the South IN
peace; he cannot live here, if he institutes war
on the white race. Backed up by the military,
power of the North, he can temporarily out
vote the whites in the Gulf States, and estab-
lish there negro governments; but the moment
he has achieved this object under the lead of
short-sighted and self-seeking white adventur,,
ers, his empire-and more-will be wrested
from him. Then the North will feel and per-
ceive that they too are involved in such policy;
that the South, which they have claimed the
right to visit and to settle in, is barred against
them Then political party will spring up by
an irresistible impulse-whose only platform
will be- ''Give us share in the rich domain OF
the SOUTH" This is the inevitable issue Of
what is now occurring in the South.
Hungary is often happily cited as an encour-
agement to the South, and warning to the
North. There for twenty years, the brute heel
of Austrian despotism was on the necks OF her
people. Helpless and hopeless, the people
could only endure such wrongs as it pleased the
oppressor to inhict. But time rolled on, and
brought an exemplary deliverance. Austria
became involved in war with Prussia. and for
lack of the zeal and the impetuous valor OF the
''fery Huns" whom by her cruel policy she
had made her weakness instead OF her strength,
she was most disgracefuly routed. Spoiled OF
a large part of his dominions, the Austrian en-
peror found himself under the imperative ne
cessity, if he would escape utter ruin, OF con-
cilating the Hungarians. Driven by the exl-
eency, he then conceded to them that full meas
ure of their rights, which if yielded in the be-
ginning, would have spared him his bitter hui
miliations and disastrous reverses. .-EnQulrer Dc
Eran,taer.
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TTIEs. General Schofeld issued an order on
Thursday last setting aside the judgment of the