The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-07-22
Remarks Of BENZ. r. Stuart, Esq, be-
fore the Immigration Meeting at Wins
boro, Fairfield District, July l3, 1885,,

lore the Immigration Meetlngat Wlnns-
boro, Fairfield District, July l3, 1885,,
| Mr.. Stewart said dos H .i
Mr.. Cbairman-Whi gentlemen arc
signing their names to the roll of the Socie-
| ty, am requested to address tho meeting,
and do 80 willingly, because this is the
OILY public measure Ii which ha7o ever
| taken enthusiastic interest, dceming II best
| rs rule for one of my profession to leave
public speaking to those with whose calling
1t is moro consonant to address the public.
NEED OF POPULATION.
Some ignorant people seeing how difficult
it's for tho present population to live In
number of people will help tho case. They
forget, that the greatcrthe number Of in
uustrlous people, tho greater Tho produc-
tion of all the comforts of life and the cheap
CT they become; that We will have larger
crops aud ~ creator variety Of productions (;
that our stores and manufactures will multi
ply, and while thcro will bc more work of
evcry kind to be dono. and greater demand
for labor, tho wages of work will purchase
more. Now by the census of 1860, tho en-
tire population Of Fairfield District was but
twenty-five thousand, but if Fairfield was
as thickly settled as Belgium, il would num-
ber about three hundred and eighty thou.
sand Inhabitants. If it were as thckly sot-
tied rs England, it would number over three
hundred thousand people. If as thickly
scttled as Massachusetts,, it would number
over one hundred aud fifty thousand ,nhab-
itants, ana if settled as thickly as oven New
| York State, it would number near one hun.
| drcd thousand people. Now it contains
twenty-five thousand, and the nogroes work
SO much worse than formerly, that wo may
say, that fifteen thousand working pooplc is
about our population. 1t is evident, there.
| foro, that Fairfield District could sustain
| twenty-five persons to every one person
that it now sustains, aud that it could sus-
| tain ten person to one of tho present popu-
lation in the greatest comfort.
INCREASE IN THE VALUE OF LAND.
IL is remarkable fact that the value Of
! real estate, by the census Of 1885, was not
| IN proportion to tho number Of inhabitants
or The prevalence of manufactures, but in
almost exact proportion to tho number of
foreigners compared with the number of the
| native population of tho different States.
In New England, two out of every sixteen
persons, in the Middle States, two out of
every nine persons only, but in the South
crn States, two out of every one hundred
| and ten white persons (ncgroes not being
worth Of land was $50, $25 aud So, per
acre respectively. in the three sections.
In the New England manufacturing States,
thoughtlle population was in 1850. more
than fifty more persons on nm average to tho
square mile than in the, Middle States, the
nvcragctprfee ofi.land was twenty dollars
But in tho Middle States, with q far less
average population, but with, double the
proportion of immigrants, tho value of land
was twenty. .eight dollars an acre, while in
the Southern States, whore there was but
one Immigrant out of every ffiy-fiyo white
| people, tho value of land was only five dol
lars i. an acre. l was myself astonishcd to
discover how invariably prosperity in 1850
was in exact ratio to the prevalence of i'm.
migrants amongst the population. Now
what is your land now worth on an
average "Fifty cents an acre." said n
| gentleman to mo last week, .and n poor bar.
| gain at that, with negro labor" II is, then,
tho interest Of every land .ownor to soil one
half, or even three -fourths OF his land, to
introduce immigrants; for tho remainder so
soon rs their introduction is assured, will
be worth ten timos as much as the whole.
EFFECT UpoN TIE NEGROES
| And do not doubt if you nut your mon.
cy into this thing, if you'lcnd it flor YOU
are too poor to give anything) to the Imn,i-
grafton Society upon somo judioious plan to
| DC hereafter adopted, the very first effect
Will DO, that tho present negro labor which
We have, will be stimulated 10 creator exor
| tions and greater efficiency, your crops will
be Immediately increased, and the income
capital, trade and business Of Fairfield will
be immediately doubled Not only will
ynnr land rise rapidly in value. but its an
nual income will be greatly enlarged.
| But those ignorant or prejudccd on this
su' ject, Imagine that immigrants arc an in
ferior set of people. Tho census proves
that they are as intelligent in evory respect
as the former slnye-holders and white .reo-
pie of the South, because have been
struck ! y the faot, in examining the figures.
! hat ninc out-of every hundred in 1860 was
| tho ratio OF those who could not read to
those who could, both amongst the white
| people Of the South and the foreign popula.
ton Of the United States. They are then
| an educated and intelligent, sober, indus
| trous and religious people, and too, if they
once commence to como, they will bring
money with them besides. II is stated on
high authority, that, 80 far as the govern.
mcnts OF Germally and our own government
could got possession Of the facts, in 1850 the
| uermhhb tlono, WHO constituted Dut one
half of tho Immigrant population, were
bringing over fifteen million dollars of gold
every year with thcm, so that tho whole
number of immigrants, then, brought to us
annually thirty million dolla.s in gold.
| They will bring il here, and they will intro.
duco greater variety in our agricultural pur.
suits, for without moro and better labor It
cannot be done. i#zNj%
VARIETY IN AaRIeULTuRE.
With more md skilled labor, We can tri-
plo our incomes ina fca short years. I
know tito be q fact that In Forsythe County,
North Carolina, alone, ono hundred thou.
sand dollars YVES made last year by export
ing dried fruit, and one mercantile house
cleared nine thousand dollars. Can VIC not
raise, and dry fruit .here2 Dr. Pitts. of
Sumter, cleared twelve hundred dollars in
1850. by shipping early apples by railroad.
Cannot wo do the same I know that with
manure IN our unriyalled, climate a9rioultu-
raj wonders can bo performed. I know Of
eighty bushels Of corn being mado, and two
crops OF hay heavier Than any, mado to tho