Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-06-17
For the Advertiser.
Report Of the Committee on Immigra.

For the Advertiser.
Report Of the Committee on Immigra.
ton.
The Committee 10 whom was referred Resoiu-
ton to Report Plan of Immigration for Edge
field District, ask leave to submit the following
Constitution for the organization of an Immigra-
tion Society
CONSTITUTION OF THE IMucnArIoN SOCIETY," OF
EDGErrELD, S. C.
Article 1st.-The Association shall be known as
the immigration Society of Edgefed S. C.
Article 2nd.-The officers of this Society shall
consist of President, Secretary and Treasurer,
and FIVE Directors, to be elected by the members
Of the Association, leach share having one vote,)
to hold Office for>twelve months, and untl new
election takes place. The election for officers to
be held on the last Wednesday in May in each
year, unless otherwise directed by the Society.
Article 3rd.-A meeting of the Shareholders can
be called at any time by the President and three
Directors, and majority of the Shareholders
shall constitute quorum.
of Twenty five Dollars.
Article 5M.-The President and three Directors
shall constitute quorum to transact the business
of the Society. In the absence Of the President,
and in default Of his not having appointed q
chairman pro- tenn, any four Directors may call
any one of their number to tho Chair to act o.
Presiuent and transact tho business of the Society,"
Article 6fh.-The Society, through its President
and Directors, will introduce immigrants into tho
State at rates to be fixed by tho President and
Directors, as cheaply as possible. ANY Share
holder, ordering through the Society, shall not be
charged more than the actual expenses incurred ;
and for the purpose of aiding Shareholder in
obtaining immigrants, he may be permitted to
draw from tho Society, an amount equal to the
share or shares he may hold in the Capital Stock,
the share or shares being pledged as security
for the loan.
Article 7h.-This Constitution may be amended
by two.thi-ds vote of any meeting of the Share
holders, at which two.thirds of tho shares nust
be represented.
Your Committee have not thought it necessary
to do more ut this time, than to urge the organi-
zation of Society Of immigration under the fore
going Constitution; and in furthsrancs of this
view have appended hereto list for the sigma
turns of all who desire to become members and
promote the objects of the Society.
As soon as twenty-five names have cen OBJ
tanned, the Committee recommend the election Of
Officers, provided for in the Constitution, and that
oil necessary arrangements be made for the speedy
introduction of white Immigrants into tho District
and State.
Our neighboring District of Newberry has an
organization in active operation, similar to the one
here proposed, md the most encouraging results
are being realized. Quite number of Immigrants
have arrived under the auspices of their Society,
have readily procured homes, and are well pleased.
Other Districts are moving in the same direc-
ton, and EdgeGeld should not be behind in the
only practicable means of rcgenorating our pros
trate country, and relieving it of the paralysing
influence of negro supremacy.
Your Committee are we'll convinced that, to in
sure success it is only necessary for our people to
beautiful and hospitable country with an inteii-
gent and thrifty white population. We should
dignity labor,-honor and reward it. Encourage,
welcome and protect the immigrant, and he
will flock to our genial and productive soil. The
chief impodiment to success heretofore has boen
the single effort to introduce the isolated laborer,
from whose toll ready and remunerative incomes
could be promptly realized. 1t is great mistake
to look solely to the capital produced in dollars
and cents by the laborer. His social condition,
and the social welfare Of the community, must be
regarded and provided for,-and hence families,
bona fde settlers, must be encouraged to come,
who will become identified with the soil, and
gradually and imperccptibly merge their social
habits into those of our own people.
We must divide out our lands, and be content
for the present with email incomes. We must in
word make ourselres independent Of The negro.
Our political and social edifice has been suddenly
and widely torn down. We must collect together
the debris, put in ne,o corner stone,-the ,ohite
man,-and make haste slowly, to rebuild the
structure.
The Foreign Emgra has heretofore been so
prejudiced against us by false representations in
those Northern cities,-New York, Boston and
PHILADELPHIA a,-where he has disembarked, that it
has been difficult, almost impossible, to attrac; mis-
attention to tho more productive cheap lands Of
the South. The monopoly in this regard is how
ever no longer exclusively in tho hands of those
cities. Baltimore has within the last two or three
months opened direct line Of Emigrant Steamers
with Bremen, and We Of the South can enter her
Ports in pursuit of white Immigrants with the
confidence that our efforts will be aided and not
thwarted and Indignantly obstrucled. The pro-
pitious moment therefore has arrived for our en-
tire people to respond cordially to the movement
in Baltimore. Let them organize and join the
Society which your Committee has recommended,
or better one if it can be suggested and let
them contribute what means they can spare to
this most important object.
Respectfully submitted.
A. P. BUTLER,
r. G. M. DUNNOvANT.
M. C. BUTLER,
R. D. BRUNsON,
JAMES A. DEvORE.
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