The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-05
Removal Of tho Southern Planters Wit
Grants ElectiOn-A Very Ahsurd Idso

Removal Of tho Southern Planters with
Grants Election-A Very Absurd Idea.
A day or two ago among the news items
from the South there was one set aloat of very
startling import to the effect that the election
of General Grant would be the signal for q
general selling out by the Southern planters,
and their emigration to the north side of the
Ohio river and Mason and Dixon's line, be-
test will 80 far encourage the nsolence of sscar-
pet-baggers" and ''scalawags," and will SO far
establish negro supremacy in the Southern
States as to render existence therein absolutely
intolerable, not only to the planters, but to
the great body of their white population. This
is very absurd idea, although If carried out
it would most likely be productive of the best
results in the infusion of considerable por-
ton OF the Southern white element to be alb
sorbed among the active and go-ahead people
of the North, and In the introduction of pow
erful body of our enterprising and active
Northern white elements in the development
Of Southern agriculture, mines, manufactures
and commerce.
There were many Southern men at the col
lapse of their bloody and shortlived confed-
eracy who believed that existence among their
emancipated negroes "under the Yankee gov
eminent at Washington" would be intolerable.
Accordingly, from Tennessee, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and other States identified
with the 'slost cause" Southern white emigra-
ton companies were formed, and under them
Among the first was the colony under Isham G.
Harris, the last rebel Governor of Tennessee,
and ''Daddy Price," Of Missouri, and a num-
Der Of other shining lights of the confederacy,
set up at Cordova, in Mexico, near that famous
mountain peak of Orizaba. The climate Of
that locality, from its latitude, is that of per-
petual summer, while from its altitude 1t never
has the scorching heat of July in New York,
and is remarkably wholesome. Moreover, in
the fruitful soil Of that region the cereals and
the fruits of the temperate and the torrid zones
flourish side by side, wheat and cotton, rice
and barley, coffee and corn, apples and
oranges, sugar and potatoes, &C., grow there
in perfection. But Mexican barbarism and
anarchy were too much even for those fighting
Southern chiefs, regulars and guerillas, who
had gone through the fiery ordeal of their
confederacy, and so, after q short and unfor-
tunate trial in their colony at Cordova, 1t was
dissolved, and its members returned in spirit
of resignation to their own country and the
tender mercies of ''the Yankees"
In the next place quite number of Southern
companies, in fifties and hundreds, emigrated
to Brazil under the delusion that there at least
their exile would be sweetened by their be-
loved institution of African slavery. But those
exilcs soon became disguised with the shock
ing matter-of-fact negro equality existing in
Brazil, Notwithstanding negro slavery, and
altogether the strange, rude and crude condi-
ton Of society, industry and everything under
the equator, soon sickened our Southern wan
derers and brought them back to their own
''sunny South as still their only refuge, even
in the face Of negro emancipation and negro
suffrage under yankee domination. The
same result, If we are not mistaken, attended
similar experiments In the West India islands
and Central America.
In fact, the attachment of the native South
ern whites to the Southern soil is hardly sur
passed by that Of the Southern blacks. In
both races II is 30 strong that neither to any
| great extent can be removed and colonized
elsewhere except by bloody compulsion. The
liberated American slave may rise in Africa
to be President Of Liberia, but he will still
sigh over the memories of ''the old planta-
ton" beyond the broad Atlantic. On the
other hand, look at those unhappy white
Southern exilss who since the war have been
pining away in the New Dominion or stroll
ing about, like the Wandering Jew, over the
world, seeking rest and finding none. Take
the case Of Breckenridge, late Vice President
81 the United States, later . rebel general in
bloody conflict with Rosecrans, and last Of all
the rebel Secretary Of War, who, in abandon
ing the rebel capital to the encircling armies
of Grant, committed 1t to the flames. Breck-
inridge has tried the Inequalities Of England,
the charms Of Paris, Of the Alps and Of Italy.
Nay, in his sore disappointment he has, like
Fernando Wood, sought the consultations of q
pilgrimage to the Holy Land; but his thoughts
have still been fixed upon his ''old Kentucky
home" He Is at present, We believe, so
journing on the Canadian border, near the
Niagara Falls, where from his window he can
look over into the United States, and where,
they cay. he 10 awaiting spsoiA psrden hA'