Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-26
politics. It is kind in our friends IN tnelf
abundance to recollect the paucity and the
nriccs of the Wilmington fruit market.
Enumeration Societies.

Enumeration Societies.
! There was nothing which formed the
| tonic of more interesting discussions IN
the recent Editorial Conference, than sub
iects relating to the agricultural interests
of the State and the duty of the press IN
REGARD TO then. Chief among these was
the question O! Immigration ana It's Dear
erunon Ia future prosperity OF the coun-
try. The editors pledged themselves to do
everything in their power to promote this
and All kindred interests. So far as we are
concerned, such promises were unnecessa-
". for our columns spoke for us. Having
devoted much of our own thoughts to these
subjects, we have also been honored by the
enterprising farmers, composing the New
Hanover County Agricultural Society, with
the reports of their proceedings, and the
able and interesting papers and addresses
read before them. They have proposed
nothing which they believed for the general
welfare, which we have not heartily en-
dorsed and urged with all our ability
Aud where their efforts have not met with
q second, it has been no fault OF ours.
We are glad to know that this Society
will, before the next crop season, inaugu-
rate in practical manner, the subject OF
the Introduction Of white labor on our
plantations. This will be done by direct
means, without the intervention or aid Of
agencies or other societies. The men who
have the work N hand are practical farm
ers, entirely unused to give way i'll the face
of difficulties, and who are neryed by the
repeated disasters incurred by the unrell-
ability of the present system Of labor
That beginning will be made in this
county during the coming season we have
10 doubt, and we have much confidence in
its success.
In this connection We publish scheme
projected by a correspondent Of the Rich
mond Enquirer and Examiner, through
which white labor can be introduced into
the South and made profitable to our res
ident population, and those who may be
induced to settle among Us. It is as fol-
lows:
81. Every neiShborhood should buy central
tract OF land the best terms possible, divide it
into twenty acre lots, with a log house Oh each
lot.
80. Each farmer owning one hundred acres Of
land to take !Ot and TO donate this lot III fee
simple to every white laborng man immigrating
from outside of the State, who will bind himself
to vote the Democratic or Conservative ticket for
the next three or five years, at the end of which
period the deed is to be made.
50. The laborer is to bind himself also to work
for none other but those belonging to the COM
pany. but 10 choose his own employer.
" /. The Whole business OF this local COMPANY
could lie managed By one man without salary,
and many labOrers as might be wanted can
easily be obtained directly from Castle Garden,
New -ork city, the chief immigration office i'll
America.
We submit this plan to the consideration
of those more Immediately interested in
this matter as containing some suggestions
Of practical importance. There is no
doubt that some uniform system Of neigh
borhOod or county action would best pro-
after the most bcggarly attempts to form
Immigration societies upon large scale,
have demonstrated that want of means,
If not the want of general interest in the
subject, stands as an impossible barrier to
success. If our section is ever blessed and
made prosperous by the introduction of in
telIigent and industrious white settlers and
laborers, and there can be no doubt that
such will be the case, it must have its
in the efforts of small
communities working in their own inter
ests and to meet their own necessities.
Men engaged in pursuits not requiring
such help, however much they may &C
knowledge their indirect interest in the
MATTER require all their means in their i'm
mediate business for present pressing
wants, and cannot spare any portion Of it
to further their future chances of success.
In the ups and downs Of every day life,
most are unwilling to make investments
which may not be realized in time to do
them any good.
We are satisfied, therefore, that the sue
cess of Southern immigration must depend
upon the modest efforts of neighborhoods,
by persons having an immediate and direct
pecuniary interest therein, and cannot look
for support at first from much aid to be
derived from the citizens generally. We
must view this question from practical
and not q theoretical stand point. Every
great project III this country, however much
the entire population has been benefited
thereby, had its foundation in the efforts
Of few bold pioneers who had direct in
terest IN its successful operation. And
although upon the Introduction of white
settlers into the South, we believe, de-
ponds its future prosperity-nay its adapti-
tude as the abode of an honorable and
proud people-still we are satisfied that
this great work must be inaugurated by
that portion OF our population who have
an Immediate pecuniary interest in the
matter. Therefore, to turn the tide of i'm
migrants now seeking homes in the North
western States TO the inviting fields and
salubrous climate of the South, we look
To orr farmers TTOOn their individuol