Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-10-06
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 IMMIGRATION.

EMMlGRATION.
 Nothing aids so much in developing the resources of country as a thrifty,
 industrious and intelligent immigra- tion and there is nothing we so much
 need at present as such an immigration into our State. We want farmers, me-
 chanics, artists and machinists. We
 have all the natural elements ofstrength
 wealth and prosperity scattered broad
 cast by the profuse and bountiful hand
 of nature; we have an abundance or
 rich and productive soil--the rich allu-
 vial loam of the bottom lands or adja- cent to the rivers and streams; we
 have the level uplsnds or prairie lands,
 fine for the raising of every species of
 grain and stock of every kind we have
 the highlands, interspersed with hills
 and mountains, densely wooded, with
 springs, rills and brooks gushing and
 bubbling, leaping and sparkling in the
 sunlight of day as onward they move over vast beds of coal and minerals of different kinds; we have boundless forests of all varieties of timber suita-
 ble for any kind of building purposes.
 Now for the successful development of
 these resources we need two things capital and operatives--but more inn
 mediately the operatives or laborers,
 and these we can have if we will but
 use the proper exertions. In the first
 place land is cheap, almost nominal in
 many portions of the State, ranging from 75 cents to $3 per acre for unim-
 proved lands, and from 8 to $15 for l improved lands, according to quality
 and improvements. This year the far
 mers have been unusually remunerated
 with corn, cotton, wheat, oats, and
 other productions, rendering this fall
 far more inviting to the immigrant
 than any season for years past. Tine lsale of the present crop will relieve the people from debt and place them | in an easy condition for future opera tions. It is true the influences of po- litical anxiety and excitement are be- I ing felt in some portions of the coun- | try adversely to the true interests of
 the people, but this in Q very short 1 time will have blown over; meantime, l if the farmers and mechanics would pay less attention to politicians and office seekers than they have hereto fore, it would rebound greatly to their l interest. It does seem strange, il
 aught ill the imperfections of human
 reason can seem strange, that the peo- pie will suffer themselves to be carried away by such understandable intluen-
 ces, since they have seen the loyeliest
 country on earth cursed and blightcd by the infectious touch and unhallow-
 ed footprints of civil war, the result of political faction and discord. It is l time we had turned away from such l folly and madness, and apply ourselves
 to the arts of peace and prosperity, l and prove ourselves what we ought to l be, PATRIOTS in the true acccptation Of
 that term--builders up and not destroy
 CTS of so lovely country as this ol
 ours. Confidence established, civil law and order restored, the shrines oi peace erected, the temples of Mars
 closed, then would immigration like a
 mighty stream flow in upon our rich, l fertile and lovely country; and Arkan- l sas, in few years, would become the
 greatest State in all the west. Then
 let us study this subject as thoughtful, | practical men, and having studied it let us practice it in the true spirit of
 men resolved to build up rather than | tear down. X.