Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-01-04
Southern Repatriation.

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OF these ill.starrcd adventures, the latest
failnre recorded is that of tho colony in Hon
dpfas. Il. wont there on tho faith OF Cover
* tastiii . promises of apd and other priv
illgea The Governor YVES as good as his
VOID, but tho Homo Government ut London
"disapprovcd," and the Southerncrs arc all
inStrouble again. " Many of ther," says the
account, "are about to return to the United
States" tits tho same old story, told Of
new place. Wherever a settlement has been
effected, the result has been Disappointing
Only moderate fortune has attended tho de-
taphment that straycd down almost to Pata
gddnia, and that has been the most promising
of all. fCordnva vas not only prompt fail
nfo but whole enterprise has long since been
abandoncd, the otock and property sold cut
tEhd the last Of the adventures returned. The
famc is true, in brief, of all tho Mexican pro-
13fcts tho same is rapidly becoming true Of
! Brazi expcriments. For example, tho
hief5colony on, the Ribeira, near Iguape-a
kettlsment founded by one Dunn, a furiously
lgecessionist clergylnan, who declares he wants
hSipainly to keep away from m-Northsrners," is
itSSilhytlnng but prosperous. Here and there al
Ilenterprisipg man has met with success but
This: was true also before the war. What we
EAsan toSsay, is that the Southern colonies, as
4 colonies are dead failures. A recent traveller
7 ryswell says that most of the cnigrants eau
| AotsWork to advantage, and are "too proud
b beg for nything but a passage home"
1 'Phe other day, we had news from one Of
| the West Indies that Southern colony was to
be organized to pre- ccd thither; and subjoin-
lsea was an account VI a couple of hurricanes
(which had swept through the length and
Ilroadthaof the island, succeeded by a, brace of
earthquakes, which laid waste what the lorna
does has Sfailod to desolate Noyerin history,
lPeriaps, did 80 many simultaneous attempts
Tat colonization, proceeding from one source to
so many quarters, meet failure so uniform -
Some of the Hugcnot cxiles from France per-
islied in distress, but others founded flourish
ing colonies in England, Switzerland, Ameri-
I, Ca Some oftthe American colonies from
England were hapless, but great success fol
lowed others. A fataistic failure one would
almost say, attends, on the other hand, the
4 Southern schemes of emigration. In some
places, as in Mexico, tho protecting Govern,
4 mont goes down, and tho colony dies out with
coming in of the new hostile rule. In others
as in Honduras, there is a g Homo Govern
I. mont" in Europe failing to make good thc 10
1 gal promises. In othora, as in Brazil, there Il
2shc suspicion md hostility Of tlm native peo
i pie, lack Of cnorgy and enterprise, want O.
mechanical improvements ior working planta
tions, difficulty in procuring labor. In South
America, in general, war and taxes, ever
worse than in the Confederacy, opprcss til,
advcuturcrs. And if nought clso can wrocl
the experiment, nature comes in with her dc
vouring earthquakes and Yhirlwinds.
We arc glad that SO few, comparatively, o
of tho Southern people essayed expatriation
Those few rushing off in haste repent at lcis
urc, and return without trcluctanco, content t,
remain. Their cxporionco is useful to thci
ncighbors. Thero will be no dcpopulation o
tho South. Let us take sort Of representa-
tive example Of the Issue Of these offo4is.--
ExGov, Harris, of Tennessee, in whose arm
Sydney johnson died ON the field of Shiloh
~ "iu "HNso AheohoieS VI ha0p w Itlc OulOu lCt
him at tho CLOSE of the war to Cordova, whcr
: ho was made President ur the Confcdcrut
{ colony, now returns at last to pay his respect
Q to tho man whom he and his associates prob
ally regarded as the personifoation Of all tha
was most detestible--Parson Brownlow
!. ''Gov. Harris said" the account informs us
}. that he had come to give himself up, an
expressed much gratitude for tho kind mcntio
!. which the Governor had made of his fam
Q in his message" lis successor has parole
him till next sp,ing These schemes, We say
i us organized colonies, do not succeed, and
Q is fortunate that they fail Our country
/. the proper home for our people, Northorncr
!. and Southorners alike. She needs. tho labo
of oil her children, Of all lattudcs, in ordo
/ to fulfill her deatiny, and.thcy, too, it seems
j cali i'll do without her.
: ORIENTAL LEGEND. -" Every man." al
n enstern legend says, " has two angels, one up
= on Ills H.. shoulder and ono upon his loft
, When he does anything good, tho angel o
!. tho. right shoulder writes its down aud seal
5 il, because what is onco wol done is dope fo
u over. Whom he docs evil, the angel upon. hi