New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-16
TIE CRY or THE SOUTH.

The Gcoroia Nationalist appeals to the loyal
men of the North to organize four societies to
promote immigration of Northern men into the
South in communities able to protect them
selves. 1t proposes that the first society shall
comprise the New-England States, and apply
itself specially to settling South Carolina,
Georgia, and Florida. The second may include
New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania ana
operate in colOnizing Virginia and North Caro-
lima The third may comprise Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana and Illinois. and should work In set
Ting Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The
fourth society should labor in Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Iowa, and Kansas, for the settlement
of Arkansas and Texas The purpose of these
organizations would be to send trusted agents
into tho South to ascertain the opportunities
for business which are now open there by rea-
son of the low prices of land and the abund-
ance of labor. Much of the land, it is said, can
now be had for q dollar or two an acre,
which would have sold for twenty dollars be-
fore the Rebellion, and will be worth that
price again as soon as industry shall revive
and the country become productive and peaceful.
The failure of many of the efforts to turn
emigration Southwark, which were made I'M
mediately after the close of the war, was due
to tho delay in settling the Reconstruction
question: to tho facts that the settlers scattered
too much not aiming to keep near enough TO-
eether to protect each other that they bought
property when it was from three to ten times
as high rs it is now, running in debt for most
of it and losing all with its decline; planted
cotton on n falling market, without calculating
on the fall were inexperienced in Southern
industry, and were set back by two successive
unusually bad seasons. Reconstruction. now
ever, is now settled. Property has fallen TO
its lowest possible point. Gen. Grant VIII soon
give security and peace to all Emlgrants
going in communities will avoid the
risks to person and capital incurred by those
going alone. 1t is necessary to the stability
and peace of the country that Northern emf
grafton into the South shall DO undertaken on
a scale rs national and imposing rs the North
en invasion of the South by hostile armies
during the Rebellion. There are in all these
States strongly Republican counties, which
need only few Northern white men TO or
capize the colored vote and maintain loyal
ascendency throughout entire districts when
otherwise must DO abandoned to Rebel ana
rcactionary ascendency. One county in Georgia,
for instance, cast only 90 votes LOT Urant,
though it had 1900 colored voters. There was
but one white Republican in the county, and
he cared not to endure the dangers OF can
vass. A few Northern communities in each
county, sufficient to organize churches and
schools, stores and mills, and to introduce
Northern newspapers, would suffice to sustain the
loyal sentiment in every such county. We need
5000 Northern voters and workers in Florida,
1000 in South Carolina, 5000 each in Alabama,
Arkansas Mississippi, and Louisiana, and 10000
each in Virginia. North Carolina, Georgia,
and Texas. If an immigration like that which
pours Westward could flow into the South for
one year only, the Southern States would be
delivered from the nightmare which now OPP
presses their politics and industry. Who viii
organize and undertake the workR 1t must be
begun from motives of patriotism as well as
profit must be actually superintendent by men
of influence, ability and vigOr, and must be
carried through with an industry and energy
like that with which we carried on the great
struggle for the Union itself. Are tho right
men and women ready to volunteer for the
work 7 If they are, it can and will be done.