The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-14
IMMIGRATION TO THE SOUTH.

We observe in many of the Southern pa
pers a very curious anomaly. They publish
editorials of an imflammatory character on
the impeachment question, the most disre-
putable assaults on loyal men at the South.
openly endorse the Kuklux Khan, and anctte
Northern in,migration. We do not think
their appeals likely to be very successful
No doubt the substantial portion OF the COM
munity South desire to invite moneyed and
industrial immigration, but unfortunately
for that section there is Il class of men there
mostly young and irresponsible, who gener-
allv manage to speak for and Ovcrawe the
entire population. They are the bane OF
the South. They dragooned her into the
rebellion and they are now deliberately de-
priving her of the last and only hope OF re-
cuperation from the effects of her folly.
The country offers material inducements
for inning ration, such as perhaps no country
ever before did. a fertile soil, cheap land,
and plenty of it, Il delicious climate, the
best natural system of water communication
in the world, mines of mineral treasure and
mountains of ore-her physical attractions
are unparalleled. The conditions of civlll-
Zation, moreover, are all at hand. The set
tier has not to abandon the comforts OF the
world and isolate himself for life from his
fellows. \ ready market is at hand: COM
municatlon is open with all parts OF the land
The main trunks of her railways are at least
surveyed, built, in partial operation; her tor
ests are cut away and the malaria of new
countries dispeled; churches and schools
are built the framework and machinery of
civil government is provided. In short, the
South offers to the settlers the advantages OF
new country without the drawbacks. Con-
sidering all the things, the question is asked
why is it that we have surteit of capital
that will not cross Mason and DiXon's line ?
Why is it that immigration and investment
force their way through the passes OF the
Rocky Mountains rather than enter the 1nvl-
ting fields of the South 2 There can be no
prejudice or political feeling in this thing
1t is matter of business. The answer is
simple. 1t is not pleasant probahili
ties are that it is not safe-for Northern |
men to 90 into the Southern States to live. |
IT they do not practice it themselves, the ma
jority of the people South encourage a sys- |
TEN of prescription which is revotiug to men |
and women who 60 among them to live as !
neighbors and friends
1t is not from timiclity or fear that Northern
men refuse to 90 South to live. The bulk |
of them have faced Confederate steel and |
heard unmovcd the roar of Confederate ar
tillery. But they are unwilling to live in a
land where they must suffer implied insult, |
it nothing more from morning till night
hC dlC iol I" SAPoSS d viz ohNt
children to the chances of Southern civiliza-
ton. Most young men of ordinary means
and manly impulses would rather take "A
woman to the frontiers than to Southern
plantation or Southern village More
than this. Northern young men are unwll-
ling to expose themselves daily to II street
fight or tavern brawl. Such encounters in
their eyes and under our civilization are dis
graceful, and it is folly to go in the way of
them. Of course there are many places
where this would not occur. But until there
is some earnest demonstration ON the part
of the whole South against such atrocities,
they must in the common nature of things
be received as indications of the condition
of the country. When this fact is under
stood and appreciated at the South differ
ent course of events will follow.
If Southern editors above all Others would
realize the force of what we have said, we
are quite sure that they would do their coun-
try more service than they seem to be doing |
it at present.-NeU York Times.