The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-11-18
Encourage immigration.


lose no time in taking proper steps to en-
courage the immigration and settlement in
our State of the German and Irish people
who every year leave their own country to
seek fortunes in the new world. Heretofore
the Importance of encouraging these indus
trious freemen has been overlooked or not
fully appreciated by the commercial and ag-
ricultural men of the South. While the prop
osition to reopen the slave trade and import
more African chattels would at all times call
together convention of men enthusiastic for
the iniquitous scheme, any proposition to en-
courage white men 10 make their homes in
the South was received coldly. The idea
prevailed that but two classes were necessary
tor the South-thc chivalry as one and their
slaves as the other. All Others were desigIa-
ted new comers, strangers, interlopers vam-
pires, and other choice epithets, even though
they may have lived here for years and proved
themselves worthy citizens.
This tendency still crops out now every
day, although it is to be hoped that since
the election of General Grant, it will be
seen more rarely than before. So far as the
Southern States are concerned, the status OF
the celored man is determined for all time
to come If freedom proyea blessing to him
we shall rejoice; if curse, other races
will be benefited by the a5sehee of slavery,
and will advance rapidly in consequence.
What chance would the poor white man
have had under the Confederacy? Every
avenue to wealth, education and happiness
is now open to him, and if he allows the col
ored man to overreach him in the acquisi-
tion of either or ALL he deserves to be called
his inferior; and if the colored man, on the
other hand becomes indolent and thriftless,
he will probably be crowded out by those
who desire to work. The Almighty gave.
the soil of the earth to mas to cultivate, and
he who can prove to the world his ability to
make it produce the most, should be invited
and encouraged to take up his abode where
his knowledge and his skill are needed
Next to the japanese, the Germans are consid-
cred the best agriculturists Frem enc to two
hundred Thousand are coming to this country
annually. Wherever they settle they make
the country rich That portion of Texas in
which the Germans have made their homes
is not only the most loyal but the most
wealthy in the State. Thei? farms are not
mortgaged, nor are their stores in debt.
Skill, thrift, enterprise, honesty and pros
perity are seen in all they do. Even the
cotton worm seems to shnn them, and we
once heard a genuine rebel planter, who had
two hundred slaves at work, say that Ger.
man could make crop in spite of worms,
caterpillars, hurricanes, inundations or
earthquakes. God help these who help
themselves, and He seems especially to
to attend every German whe takes hoe or a
.plow in his hands
Hereafter, farming in North Carolina and
in the whole South, must be done on a small
rather than large scale, and it is as small
farmers that the Germans succeed and it is
through small farms, well cultivated, that an
intelligent and powerful yeomanry are built
up. The North has saved the nation twice,
and will save it fifty times if it be attacked,
because she is strong in the men who till the
soil. The South can be as strong as the
North if she be sagacious enough to follow
In her footsteps. Having advantage of her
in climate and fertility of soil, she ought to
have at least one half the immigration from
Europe, and ought to divert much of that
now going beyond the Rocky mountains.
Let her drop the negro from politics let
her treat him like a man; let her pay for
his labor, and he will then work. The ne
gro now is free and equal before the law,
and he can take his chances with all of us.
IL he can make more money than we, we
wish that he may have wisdom enough to
Feep 1t, but II he fails to come up to the wants
'otthe South as a cultivator of the soil, he will
greatly disappoint his friends. Let the Ger
Nans come in here by thousands, and say
nothing to them about politics They will drift
INTO 1t last enough themselves and see that
,i'''f own rights are protected at the ballot
.noA. The colored man can learn much from
'"ell IN ihe way of economy, skill and the cul-
lure OF fhesoil. Alarge plantation cut up into
small larms will yield in a few years ten times
more than the old planter ever dreamed it
could produce and ifh 81,