The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-26
SHALL OUR PEOPLE En11GRATE,

SHALL OUR pBOPLb Ilb11GNhTEf
Soon after the full Of tho Conroderacy many
Of our people, unable to penetrate tho gloom
OF the future, deeming all lost, and seeing no
prospect for recupcration, cast about in tho
lcgcs und conditions denied them si in their n5T. own
| This was quite natural, For however hopeless
our cause mny have appeared 10 those without
| or 10 tho moro far-sighted oven within tho
bounds Of the Confederate States, we, the rank
and file Of tho people, both in tho army and Mt
home, had staked our all on its success, and
persistontly, my wilfully, refused to SEQ aughL
that could by any possibility have tendency
TO sncken our hnntls, or TO cause us to despair
! Of tho final result. Accordingly, when the last
arrived the shock was torrible, tho agony in
dcscribablc; and this not here and lhcro only,
| with tho moro enthusiastic natures. No, this
was tho case with our cntiro population almost.
No one was prepared for tho catastrophe. The
general instinct was that oil was lost; that this
| country offered nothing Of hope or cheering
prospects TO the vnnquishod Confederate. Wo
| instinotiIely looked abroad; md had there boon
nm abundance rs ihoro was scarcity of money
| ut that time, ihcre can bo no doubt many would
hnvo cmigratcd; and long orc this would havo
| repentcd their rash step, just ms those who
carried out such design have rcpcnted and re-
| turned.
Mexico, at that time, to our ignorant eyes,
| offered n fno fold. The Inducements hold out
\ to cniigrants from the South by tho Emperor's
! Government woro considerable, aud many wero
! allured in part by these favorable terms, but
still more because at Cordoyn, they hoped to
| find climate md other physical conditions
| analogous to those they had left behind them,
| and could nt once engage in the culture Of such
| products as were familiar to them. They,
civil and political liberty, or perhaps we should
| say, they hoped for awhile at least TO bc per-
mitted 10 live in obsourity and quiet, remote
| from oil political complications. But this was
not to be. Long before tho fall even Of MAXI
| HILIAN's Empire, most Of the colonsls, from
one cause OF another, had rclinquished tho
project md returned to tho United States,
| much better contentcd hereafter 10 remain
| here, than those Of their neighbers who had
not been away on prospecting" tours in Span
ish America.
Others of our pooplc went to Brazil, and yet
srous Of Inducing immigraiffon;' send out out
agents, offer lands either FREQ Of cost, or at o
nominal price, and with tho modification Of
defeat still ranking in the bosom of some of
our people, we evory now and then hear Of
few individuals determined to try thoir for
tunes in these far-off lands of tho South. The
political troubles here, our present unsalisfsc-
tory condition, and the uncertainty of tho flu
ture are the prime causes of this continued dis
content and consequent desire TO emigratc
We feel bound to say TINT we know of but few
instances of eithor such as hayo gonc or con-
template going; whether this is because of tho
res augusta domi enforcing tho Psalmist's in
junction: "Dweil in the land, and vcrily thou
shalt bo fed,"-or because sober second
thought has induced healthier tone of feel
ing wo are unable 10 say. Wo hope, however,
it is the lattor.
We published letter o fow weeks ago from
q gentleman from Barnwoll District, 8. c., who
had been in Brazil, having gone there with
Wow of purchasing land, and removing his
family thithcr. His report is altogether ad-
verso and his advice to his friends is TO remain
here. 30, we doubt not, il will bo found in
the caso OF Venezuela, and other States and
Colonies, to which our people may look as
places OF refuge Tho truth is, We have not
ono single good reason for emigraline; and
those who, aching upon impulse rather than
mature. Judgment, nevertheless emigrate, will
find, sooner or later, that in strsining at tho
shadow they have lost the substance.
We have here all the conditions people usu-
ally seek in country to which they remove,
when, for good aud sufficient reasons, they
emigrate from their own; and we have, on
several occasions, fully endorsed tho very intor-
csting pamphlet prepared by our Commissioner,
General JonN A. WAGEHRR, setting forth tho
inducements South Carolina holds out TO tho
immigrant in search OF home. These arc 30
we'll known to all our readers that Il is unne-
oessary for us hero to enumorats them in detail.
But ifthese facts and conditions arc inducements
to tho foreign immigrant, thoy arc hundred
times more to ourselves. This is our country.
Here our fathcra lived, struggled and died, and
hero ropose their hnnos. IIoro wero wo born,
and around these woods and streams, hills.
dales, creeks, islands, bnys and inlets cluster the
halloWed recollections Of our youth. Yes, these
are the scenes Of the happy days Of our child.
hood and tho theatre Of the labors Of our ripor
years These oaks and pines, ems, poplars
sndfpalmettoos, ore our own, indissolubly in.
tertHined with our heart strings. Lot them
not be rudely touched or severed. .ag aU
True, we are not this timo as happily silua.
ted as ,we hayo been in times past, or az ! wo
wish to be now. But upon o calm and CON-
sdcrAte survey Of tho situation, we do not
think II will be found desperate or unprece-
denied, or devoid Of hope. We believe that
D Brighter day is dnwning upon us, r. wo arc
but truo 10 ourselves. Let us not despair :; let |
us not lose faith In ourselves; lot us address
ourtclVos honestly, and with oil our might, to
tho work before us, and our word for IL, we /
shall soon see tho clouds breaking, and ouos
more SEQ tho light and feel the boams Of the
genial sun.
South Carolina Is country TO which 10 I'm
migrate, but not from which to emigrato OF
COURSE We shall not bo understood to advocate
non-intcrcoursc with adjoining ststeo. We
know that in times past our Slate has sen. her /
sons to eyory State in tho South and West;
and this we presume, win continue 10 be tho |
case In the future. This Is simply In accord