New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-20
prnnnRlapMENr To INMIeRATIoN.

ENCOURAGEMENT TO IMMIGRATION.
We are glad that at least one influential
Camp street journal has had the boldness,
and such step in this community demands
no little boidness, to publicly proclaim the
sentiment we have so often advocated
upon the subject Of Southern immigration,
Had human ingenuity been set to work to
devise plan not only to keep immigration
out of Louisiana, but also to drive away
from our State the residents who are really
desirable none more effectual could have
been devised than that which has been sys-
tematically followed by the Democratic
press Of New Orleans ever since the sur
render, with the solitary exception OF the
journal to which we have referred.
To persistently heap upon whole classes
of the community all manner OF filthy cpl
thets and names expressive Of meanness
and rascality, simply because they are Re
publicans, is the best of evidence that the
author of the same is either fool or
knaye. No man was ever convinced by
such arguments, and we only wonder that
the right-thinking part OF the community
have so long tolerated the nuisance. There
is not an intelligent farmer or artisan in
the North, be he Republican or Democrat,
who would not be utterly disguised with
this sort of thing, which is just now raging
in the country papers Of Louisiana. Had
he ever thought of emigrating to this State
the simple reading of her principal journals
would be enough to prevent his coming.
And yet, forsooth, these same newspapers
claim to advocate the best interests Of
Louisiana
We quote from our Camp street cotem-
porary:
What we need most to do is to encourage
the immigration not Of mere laborers and
dependents, bIt of selfsustaining and indie
pendent farmers and artisans, not only re.
gardless of their peculiar religious and Pc.
litical views, customs, dialect, and social
manners, but with especial care to assure
them that we shall be as tolerant OF judg-
ment, and retcent of remark respecting
such things as do not chime in with and
appear like our own as if we were in their
original land instead of our OWL. We do
not disguise in this that we have particular
allusion to the Yankee of Puritan religion
and Radical politics. We are as deslrous OF
his conversion as any one, but we have
never known any man converted by abuse
or intimidation, and we desire him, If indus.
trious and selt.sustaining, to come here re-
gardless of his politics or religion.
Contrast these just and liberal views
with the following also from the Saturdays
issue of another Camp street contemporary:
Many residents appear DESTROYS to sell out
their property and leave our State Tor more
stable and favored governments, mostly for
France-while many contemplate to visit
other parts of Europe, remain for years, or
until we have a white mans government.
Three our four Of our leading merchants
have advised US they will settle or remain
in Italy for some time, others will spend
some time in Germany, and not few in
England, and how many will leave our city
for France it is impossible to say, taking
with them all property or everything which
can be converted into gold. There are
thousands DESTROYS of leaving our negro and
mongrel State, but unfortunately pecuniary
considerations are an obstacle.
1t is a very great misfortune that all
such as are anxious to leave the State for
the above reasons have not the means 10
do so, and what would be still more desira-
bic, to stay away when once gone. But
by some means or other the greater part Of
these emigrants who, out of spite, start off
for Mexico, Honduras, and Brazil, manage
to get back. A friend who has run steam
ers to Vera Cruz and British Honduras
since the war says that man with stick
could not keep these people from flocking
on board and begging free passage back
to the States which they had left with
curses few months before.
No journal in the whole South has been
more guilty in disseminating this species
of mischief than the one from which we
have last quoted. The sensible portion of
the community would not regret to see the
authors of all such twaddle as the above
take passage on the FIRST steamer for Brazil
or the Cannibal Islands.