Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-06-09

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Oh it will ever gr,eve me.
That's why I'm weeping now,
Oh sccrn not these sad traces
n5 Of sorrow on my brow.
Roy The following appears in the
shape of q communication in the New
Orleans Bulletin
POPULATE THE LAND WITH WHITE MEN.
The result of the recent SO called
election has shown that the destiny
and future. welfare of our State has
passed for the time being under the
control Of the negro, hopelessly igno-
rant and desperately degraded.
If our people are true to themselves
and awake to the crisis which is upon
them, this greatest calamity can be
avoided, by popuIating our vacant
lands and deserted farms with white
voters. = -. go
How is this to be accomplished !?
Some propose to do it by donating
hall their lands to white men who will
agree to occupy them for FIVE years.
To this project there are two fatal
objections. First, concert of action
ca"not be secured, and while a few
would agree to this ceursaa, many
would refuse; and second, ifthe lands
are given away, thousands from the
Southern cities would flock to the
country, asking for lands, with greater
claims to them than Immigrants from
the North or foreign countries, and
their occupation of the land would
mot increase the aggregate white vnte
10 the State. The eratnitous dirt j.
button Of the lands would not, there.
fore, accomplish the object sought.
How then, it is asked, can the tide
OF lmmi grafton be turned South, and
a preponderating white vote secured?=
In the same manner, and by the
same means that Iowa, Wisconsin,,
Minnesota and the other Western
States were SO rapidly populated. 81
No man will come South to live
unless he feels assured it is to his
pecuniary and social interest to do so.
In word, he will 30 West or South,
as he may think he can best better
his fortune. If he can do better here
than 10 the West, he will come; if
not, then Westward he takes his Jour-
ney. /
It is perfectly clear, that to induce
immigration from the North, West or
foreign countries, we must make it
clearly to the interest of emigrants to
seek q home here. t8
With this fundamental principle
10 view nothing seems easier than
by proper means, to turn, and turn
speedily, the flow of immigration
Southwark.
The Emigration Aid Societies, in
6llirg up the Western States with
y White men, furnished them homestead.
at reasonable prices on long terms of |
credit. and secured for the new set.
.lers Immediate employment
We have only to do the same
hing, and in a few, years our vacant |.
iehis viii be corrupted with an INDUS
rions aud white voting population.
Our former planters have not only
hundreds but thousands of acres Of
he most fertile lands, which, under
he present circumstances, they are
without The means to cultivate. One
lalf or three fourths OF all these lanos
IAN be secured, with uneneumb@r ed
tiles, to procure white voting pop
datIon. -a "a, -
Objection may be made that Radi.
would occupy them. This is not the
lightest objection. All that is wanted
) whate voters. A few years resi-
|ence, and their interest in the proper
and government Of he
,tate, will direct their political views 5
n the same channel as our own, and +.
Rill surely sWerp the power from the
ands of the Ignorant, immoral and.l q
egraded negroes
The battle between white and :
lack labor has already commenced, !
nd it is easy to foletell the result oil.
hat conflict. That the negro must
ield the soil to the white race and f.,
nd :, hnma a1thur in his nat;uo IL!