The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-26
COLUMBIA.
Friday. Morning, April %. 1867.
Capital and Labor.

ito procure which the untiring efforts
of our people should be constantly
exercised. The subjoined remarks,
from the New York News, are we'll
worthy the attention of our planters
and those of our prominent citizens
and State officials who are interesting
themselves in the subject of foreign
immigration:
s.We have no doubt as to q great
gain to the South from foreign popu
lation. There is nothing that can
keep it back. The people there are
ready to welcome agricultural labor,
and there it will meet with rs gene
rcus O welcome rs in my part of our
country. This fact should become
known, and we would suggest to the
prominent men in the Southern
States to take up this subject, and to
issue such information respecting
lands and products as may be needed
by those in Europe, who are looking
for new homes on this continent.
Much is done in the West to favor
immigration. Books and pamphlets
ore issued in every European country,
through the agency of Western capi-
talists, to make the road to the West
easy, and were similar publications
sent out by responsible gentlemen in
the South, there would be an early
beginning of movement to populate
the favored fields in the Southern
States. There is nothing that grows
scarcely that will not thrive in the
Southern States. North Carolina, for
instance, has greater range of pro-
ducts than any other State, and were
the population able to fully develop
these, she would be one of the richest
of the States. Other States have
great advantages for the production
of grand staples, and labor and skill
ought to be invited to settle in those
regions. We expect to see an acces-
sion to the population of this country
from abroad of 1000 annually; and
this is certain to be the case if war
breaks out in Europe. How impor-
tant is it, then, to give wise direc-
ton to this power, by instructing it
how to benefit itself, and, at the
same time, to unfold the riches which
nature has placed ut the feet of man. !"
The Ne,cs has brought to view, in
the above extract, just what the South
has always been deficient in, and that
is, in properly advertising the induce
ments and advantages which she pos
sesses. It is this great oversight or
Indifference on the part of the South
ern people which has caused many
enterprises which possessed in them
selves all the ingredients of success,
and the elements that would contri-
butte to the general veal and pros-
perity, to languish and die. At this
trying period OF the fortunes of our
impoverished section, this apathy
should be thrown of, and every
agency that can be devised be brought
into action to aid in the work of re-
cuperation. The suggestion above
quoted, in regard to the dissemina-
ton of information relating to the
resources and products of the South,
IS one particularly that should Le
promptly adopted by the Commits
sioner of immigration for this State,
and to make his action effective, lie
should have the active and substantial
cooperation of the agriculturists in
every District. 1t is by energy in
this mode that the West is drawing
the large majority of foreign immi-
grants who are constantly arriving
on our shores. The South, with
soil naturally rs good, with an in
finitcly better climate, more profitable
products, superior access to foreign
and domestic markets, could and
ought to receive q large share of the
immigration flowing to the country,
and which wilf1ndoubtedly increase,
from causes abroad and from reviv-
ing industry here. This would be
the case, if active steps were taken to
attract in this direction. There is
nothing which the South so much
needs just now rs capital and labor,
and nothing which moro demands
her strenuous efforts to secure. Our
idle lands, our undeveloped resources,
our water power lying unuscd. orr