The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-06-24
Southern Lands and immigration.

Southern Lands and immigration.
From the New Orleans Crescent
Nothing is destined to play more effective part i,
sowing political as well as material problems in th
oouen than the element of immigration. Political his
tory Is founded in natural history, and all governmen
anu a ID" must ultimately rest upon ndisputable so
claa ac's; wat the South may be in respect to in
ternal pohtcs TO industry production and commerce
is to be determined by what she will be in respec. tt
population In this question of population. indeed
all her hopes pivot; about it all her fears revove
The hagitious scheme of negroradical supremacy de-
vised by partisan selshness and magnity cannot be
fought successfully by political weapons alone Tt
live down, is the only way to effect its utter defes
and permanent suppression. And to live it down, vi
be favored by the preponderance Of needed ele
ments OF population. Left in their normal relations
the white people of the South the freed blacks, it il
true, would not be source of political danger, aue
would more and more contribute, thousands of them
are now contributing, to the material prosperity o
the country But all past experience, corrobarated
by all contemporary observation, testifes that political
power-the power to make laws and administer gov
ernment for themselves and for others wholly differ
ent from themselves-conhded unquali6edly to such
classes, works like poison in their blood. 1t demor
aises it meddens them. And this is not because they
are naturally more wicked, cruel and reckless than
other peoples but because they belong, for the most
part, to that section of the human family which, in
spect to the awful responsibilities of political sover-
eighty, is naturally weak and incompetent. What the
Indians and mongres of Mexico, and the negroes and
mongres of st. Domingo, entrusted with this sover.
eignty have made of those countries, radical
dominion, unchecked by the influx of wholesome in
gradients of population, would at length make of the
South As there is obviously no hope of regeneratng
st. Domingo and Mexico except through change OF
population it is obviously the part OF wisdom and pa
trlotsm in our to take measures without delay
fer nerposlng such elements of population are best
oa1ou late tn Vh miSDlaced
ica power has brought upon the countries whose warn
ing examples above referred to-
1t is time that all of u.s. in the cities and in the ru-
raj districts whether devoted to or to agri-
culture, to professional avocations to mechanical
arte should recognise in the practical manner the
ndispensability of this policy to the salvation Of the
South. And cannot give this recognition without
ahording, to the extent of ability instant and sub
stantlal encouragement to immigration from Europe
and from the Northern and Western States for such
an immigration is absolutely necessary to the
of the policy.
Of the various immigrant projects which have been
agitated strikes us as possessing simplicity
and feasibility than that represented by COL Lee Gran
DALI of this city. His plan contemplates the sale of
Southern lands idle, divided into suitable tracts,
to immigrants who will engage personally in their
cultivation He proposes to part with alternate divi-
sions, retaining the remainder for the present
who will profit by the increased value which it will
derive from the surrounding Improvements and the
growth in the vicinity of an intelligent industrious and
thrifty population. He is not only agent between
the Southern seller and the immigrant, but he is pre-
pared to purchase his account and for men Of
capital in the North who wish to avail themselves of
the present cheapness of valuable lands in the South
to make investments. Apart from motives of personal
speculation Northern capitalists have an interest in
the material ecuperation and the social health of the
South only second that of the Southern people them
selves and it is surprising to learn that COL Gran
lon Nv, Tho
North, who will assist at once in the ready sale of
lands entrusted to his agency and in promoting the
immigration which is so greatly desired.
The recent discovery of a material known as the
Stevens Flux has created quite an excitement in
god-minng circles. 1t appears that Col. Stevena
Federal officer, happened to be confined in Georgia
prison during the war, and though no geologist or
chemist he became interested in the conversation of
deserters from the Southern army who were his fe-
low prisoners and who had formerly been employed
in the Georgia gold mines They said that the great
obstacle to profitable working of these mines
the difficulty presented in the desu phurisation of the
ores. This set him to thinking and recently, partly
by accident and partly by pernacous thought upon the
subject, he discovered a combination of substances
which completely accomplishes the desired object
With this new smelling material, ores which formerly
yielded but $500 per tun now yield $l4O0 This diff
ference of yield is great to give high value
mines which previously would not pay for working
and were, consequently, regarded as wholly worthless.
In Boston alone, the 1ux will redeem and vital
Use s4o,0o0oo0 of capital invested in gold mines which
had proved unproductive
In speaking of the Stevens fux, Professor Hayes,
State Assayer says; 1t is residue remaining after
the extraction of sodium from the mineral cryolite,
and consists of fuorde Of calcium and alumina, with
some caustic and some carbonate of lime in varying
proportions, little silica and oxyde of iron. The hux
ing power is dependent on the huorides present. and
is generally aided by the addition of chloride such
as common salt in mixture with it. Besides high
efficiency in causing ordinary rocks, and gangues to
become fuxed by heat, the fuoride gives remarka-
BILE fuidty to the melted mass, and this insures the
deposition of any metallic gobues reduced from the
ore submitted to trial, that the metal is found at
the bottom in clear, solid state in cooling"
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