The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-11-03
The Advantages Of our Section.

ered what some natives have failed do, that there
is no better place to live in than North Carolina:
Mr. EDIroR:-I have been attracted by the prae-
teal ideas you endeavorlng Through your col
umns) to promulgate to our people. And my atten-
ton has been especially called to your efforts to
prove and as think successfully that this portion
of North Carolina is highly favored section and
needs only the same energy coupled with good farm
ing that emigrants to other States employ, which, if
exerted and used here, would be attended with like
results While Immigration Societies and lmmi-
grant Agents gre busy trying to bring us foreign
population to work idle lands doubt not if you
have not awaited more by keeping home many who
fancied removal to another State would give them
"a nigh CUT to fortune. .-.....
1t behooves to look this subject in all of its
practical bearing, and devise some means OF placing
State a footing that will again fix her on the
high road to prosperity | may be in error but 1
confess that doubt ability to turn the tide Of
foreign immigration to this quarter and my opinion
is based upon the that there is vast amount of
Northern capital used without stint by Agents in
Europe who stick the immi grant from the time he
leaves Vaterland until he reaches the Western terri
| tories, where labor commands much more than 1t
does here and the mmi grant is lured there by high
sounding figures and prospect OF seeing DINERS OF
his countrymcn who have proceeded HIM, while he
does take into consideration the difficulties which
| accompany these high inducements. Hence, while l
am the last man in the world to discourage foreign
! immigration to our State, yet 1T strikes me very
forcibly that there is another class of persons to
whom we should also extend a welcome and home.
In past wears many of our best people removed to
other cotton States Many of these persons have
been impoverished by the war, and are now located
in sections where the negroes lar outnumber inc
whites and they are hopeessly in the minority, and
cannot hope for change in their African Constitu-
tions for many years to come In tins State, ana IN
Virginia, look forward to better times, iof
the negro is the minority and it is to be hoped that
those Of the white population who have assisted The
negro in fastening odious Constitutions on these
States will see how very much they were operating
against their true interests, and will, when sober
Constitution
liar that under which we once lived so happy anu
prosperous.
Asa matter of course if the more Southern States,
nv means of their overpowerng negro majoritles,
Ter greater inducements to the negro to locate there
he will soon remove from cur borders, while on the
other hand offer such inducements TO the
white men of those States that they will come to us
Such results, which must eventually be brought
j about, viii place noble old State in higher
! position in the scale of prosperity than she has
hitherto enjoyed, while the character OF our popula
ton will be greatly improved by heavy accessions OF
the choicest to be found any where The PEG
pie will thoroughly understand each other as well al
that mode of farming to which our SOIL Is best aaap'e
! Even if we do not now succeed III rcmodellng ou1
= Const tuition, a few thousand OF our long absen
friends aud kindred cam by their votes, and VIII
accomplish what the election of the Democratic can
y di,.ates would have failed to do ..sF
did not intend to Introduce politics in this shor
article but the present aspect of affairs the poll
tics of th country, az well as the ponies Oh o'e
countries, materially affect our monetary and socla
r interests. =,
u The question arises, why do not our Southern
o brethren return to their old homes. We can ohe
them the great wealth of wafer power, timber an
Of minerals of this State. We can show them that i
the single county Castor sufficient iron orecan
> obtained to keep busy one hundred furnaces, Whii
the great success Of Lnebarger Factory and others
evidences that other factories on the same stream
e with better water power ought to induce cap
l. tali>ts attempt tried and successful enerPfls
MIR E. Wilkes can show you that pig iron from NJ
40 Furnaces, laid down in New York City, pays Ian:
~ some profit In the county clover grows
he well prepared land well in Maryland and Ian
which will produce clover to perfection can be mao
b. to produce almost anything common to the cima'
III which is unrivaed by that Of any section eIth
=, North South. =,
- Lands located city growing as rapidly
o. Memphis did when she first essayed to assume u
proportions of city Il aude to the city OF Charlo''
~ which is now in her infancy throws down the gaun
let to the cotton cities of the South and promises
i long to be point of great import ance-the termlh
III of several Railroads with road in course OF co
lie struction which will take her produce to the oce
without breaking bulk, bur forty hours distant 1re
o the greatest seaport in Virginia, the point 10 WIN
| MANY new roads now being constructed-o
eo cannot fail to see that she is daily becoming POI
I'VE of great int crest the capitalist, to the traVeer
nd to one who seeks healthy, refined and culu'a'
home. Will you not give us another one oi J.
ro practical arguments in support OF what nave zee
ATTEMPTED TO present the end that this subject nj
lon be more fully and ably presented TO those whom
I'M would have of us and among us. ~