The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-18
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning. October 10. 1868.
l;Doubtfut story-Bad Policy.

,E3-sDoubtfui Story-Bad Policy.
According to the New York Herald,
gentleman from Alabama, now in
Washington city, states that great
numbers of the more respectable
people in Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, and, he doubts not, in the
other Southern States, have long had
under consideration, and have made
preparations for moving, some into
California, some to the Northern
States, and others to the Territories,
in the event of General Grants cleo
tion. He says that they are fully
convinced that if the Republicans are
successful, it will be utterly impossi-
BILE for them to live in the States
where they now reside. We have
heard intimations before of similar
purpose entertained in another i'm
portant State of the South; but it is
not at all likely that such nm idea is
generally entertained. There has
been already q considerable emigra-
tion from some Southern localities,
where the white population is small
and defenceless, to the Northern tier
Of Southern States, and even to the
North and West. The selling out Of
property and removal to a great dis
,tance, are not often accomplished, in
the'best of times, without sacrifice;
but, at the present prices of property
in the South, to sell out is very near
to giving away. When to this is
added the surrender of old associa-
tions, and the passing of the remain
der of life in exile from the scenes
and friends of early years, it must be
confessed that it may we'll be q ques-
ton with Southern landowners
whether it is not "better to bear the
ills they have. than to fly to others
that they know not Of" by emigra-
tion, especially to distant region
like California, where, rs appears
from q late number of the leading
periodical of that State, the profes-
sions are all over crowded, and there
is no prospect of any man improving
his condition, unless he either has
capital, or, by his labor in mechanical
and agricultural employments, can
add to the productive wealth of the
State. Where there is either capital
or labor, if the object is to escape
apprehended evils peculiar to the
Southern States, emigrants will find
all in Maryland that they can gain by
removal elsewhere. Whilst, as the
Baltimore Sun says, no one can
refuse to sympathize with the appre-
tensions which are said to be prompt
ing some persons in the South to
think of emigration, it is probable
that those who viii most profit by
such movement will be the shrewd
and unscrupulous adventurers whose
vocation it has become to speculate
upon the miseries and necessities of
the Southern people. Too much
caution cannot be exercised in such
step as this, SO comparatively easy,
perhaps, to take, but go difficult, if
not impossible, to retrace. t
That the Southern States, the gar
den spot of this country, will be per-
manently abandoned by the white
rece, especially in view Of the ever
widening river of emigration from
the old world, is too improbable an
idea to be seriously discussed. If
the present proprietors relinouish IT,
emigrants from other parts of this
country and from Europe will take
their places. In any event, the
South is yet to become more pros