The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-21


enue Commissioner the ten Southern States paid
into the national Treasury during the year end
ing June 30, 1868, the handsome sum of over
thirty millions and three-quarters. This
is large Increase over previous years since
the war, and shows that the South is again on
the high road to wealth and influence. One
reason to be assigned for this Improvement in
the prosperity of the South is the cessation in
the wild, silly and bombastic illusions of her
stump speakers and partisan journals, and the
substitution in their place of sound talk and
sensible reasoning in favor of encouraging i'm
migration from all parts of the world to the
fair and favored sunny Southern land. For
example, we have now before us long ard
carefully prepared paper, issued upon the
authority of the State Agricultural Society Of
Georgia, in regard to the establishment of a
regular system of immigration to that State.
1t is proposed to organize board of commits
sioners who shall constitute a bu-
reau Of immigration, with auxiliaries at
prominent points in Europe, for the
encouragement of the immigration Of indus
trious communities from the Old World to the
New, and by process that will place the cost
nal figure. The Legislature Of Georgia cannot
do better thing to enhance the interests Of
the State than to encourage this movement.
The idea of the infusion Of white European
labor into the cultivation of the products of
the South may be unpopular with those who
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in the broad fields and plantations of that sec
ton. But, as the South is now situated, the
great difficulty is to obtain laborers at any
price; and when the whites make their appear
ance to fill the vacuum caused by the change
in the political condition of the negroes the
latter as class will be stimulated to resume
their old employments, and thus afford to the
South what it so much needs partial supply
of practical and skilled labor. No European
immigrant need be afraid of going to the South
and remaining unemployed il he chooses to
work. We refer especially to the agricultural
class. The field for the employment Of such
labor in the South is next to inexhaustible;
and as the agricultural resources OF the coun-
try are developed and agricultural commune
ties are formed. then come the mechanic, the
manufacturer, the merchant, the artisan, the
professional man; and the cheerful, busy,
thrifty air the region now assumes bespeaks
for it the presence of an Industrious, Intelligent
and frugal population.
But il is not in the improved character Of
the agricultural element alone that the South
shows signs OF progress. We find that North
ern capital seeks investment in Southern rail
roads and lines of steamers-that there is a
hearty and generous competition among COM
mercial men in prominent Southern ports to
make theirs the particular point of departure
for Southern products destined for the North
and Europe. The great cry is for 6 through
traffic" for the transportation of cotton direct
from Memphis to New York. Mobile is becom-
ing jealous of Charleston as a port of clearance.
Savannah and Charleston always were jealous
OF each other, and in the pending contest for
superiority ii will be found that the city which
shows the most liberality and good sense in
the treatment of those who traffic with her
merchants will win in the end. The great
want of New Orleans for long time, and a
want that has retarded her commercial growth,
has been grain elevator. She now possesses
onc the largest in the country, and we will
find that fair proportion of the contents of
the granaries of the West will ere long find a
natural outlet to the ocean by way of New
Orleans and the mouths of the Mississippi.
But the case as il stands at present is for the
South to encourage, by all the means within
its power, the development of its own bound
less resources, to invite immigration by Offer
ing the most liberal terms possible to the
European who, with his family, wishes to
improve his fortunes and to establish a per-
manent, comfortable and Independent home for
himself and his posterity. The reports Of vio-
lence in the South may tend to prevent the timid
from seeking that part of the country for a per-
manent settlement; but, besides these reports
being greatly exaggerated, there are hundreds
OF thousands Of acres of improved and unm-
proved lands in the South where the farmer or
planter is as safe in his person and his pro-
perry is as secure as in the most settled farming
districts Of the North and West Furthermore,
the fire-cating disposition of the Southern
leaders has vastly toned down, il it be not
entirely extinct We have just seen how two
Of the principal chiefs of the rebellion have
gone into the business OF insurng lives and pro-
perry, and it is not likely they will very soon
recur TO their former occupation of destroying
both. Hence let the European immigrant and
every other immigrant who wishes to enjoy
life of comfort, contentment and independence
con over the advantages afforded by our beau
tiful and inviting Southern lands, occupy and
improve them, raise great crops Of cotton and
corn. which are better than pure gold, and
thus augment the general wealth Of the great
American nation.
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