The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-11
COLUMBIA
saEurday lfsrning,. ,.Janpary II. 1858,

,iAAxUt0ay H&9rnIng, . ahnary II. 1000
EAs sDsthern states-Attraction for
Immigrants.
The Wilmington, Delaware) COM
e.rsrsI, states that. there is a, very.
large emigration movement going on
IA Che farming communities OF many.
SoS the Northern, and even Western.
Ssases. to- more, congenial climates
and an, easier titled soil, and that let.
Sers of inquiry from no less than 800
Rarties had BEEN received by a single
Esal estate agent nthet city. Some
,0f these letters, strange as it may ap-
pear. came from Ohio, and from
Etates further West. That section of
Ghe country has hitherto attracted
&he great bulk, Of foreign emigration,
hut tits stated that complaints have
already begun to reach Europe, that
Che wastefnl tilling without any re-
turn 81 fertilizers, is beginning to
zsR, even upon the rich prairie soil.
Whetwith the distance from market.
and the difficulties Of transportation,
agriculture there is getting on a
par with that Of the Eastern
States in q series of letters lately
aadrssasd by Mr. Henry G. Carey,
of Philadelphia, o celebrated political
essayist, TO Senator Wilson, of Mas
aachusetts, upon the industrial, finan-
s1ial aud political condition of the
country, Mr. Carey devotes one letter
TO thessnp periority OF the South as an
agricultural country to the North,
'and even the West. He expresses
Hhe opinion that s'the day is at hand
when emigration to the South and
Southwest must take the place now
Oecapied by emigration to the West,
and when power,is to pass from the
poer aoil of the Northeast to those
FIeher ones. which now offer them
selves IN such abundance in the
eentre, the South and the South
Test. !" He says that the great West,
hitherto called the "granary of the
world, " has now so little food to
SPARE that the whole amount of our
export is much less than is now re-
,quired for payment of the mere inte-
rest upon debts contracted in Europe
dor cloth and iron. Mr.. Carey gives
some interesting details, setting forth
'she superior quality of Southern
wheat and -four over those of the
Ner&h and West, and the higher
price they command in all the
markets of the world, and the
earlier harvest, and the cheap and
easy shipment, which enable it to
fOrestall the West in foreign demand.
He contends that it is not wheat alone
for which the North is likely to be
compelled to look to the South, but
IN leading vegetables and the best
food for stock. It is impossible to
read this letter of Mr.. Carey's with
out seeing, to use his own language,
chat, "turn in what direction we may,
IN the South, we find that nature has
provided for that diversifcation of
demand for human services for which
0e look In vain amid the fields of
Northern States" When these facts
become generally known and realized
IN the Northern States and abroad,
emigration to the South will be found
q more practicable method for the
solution of difficult sectional ques-
lions, and for the preservation of
civilization in that region, than any
(Which has yet been suggested. In
looking for less severe climate and
anilder winters, inducements which
are prompting the emigration move
,ment in the North combined with
fertility OF soil, variety of agricultu-
raj productions, railroads, religious
privileges, healthfulness of climate
md cheap lands, South Carolina pre-
sents advantages which are not sur