Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-30
Emigration TO the South.


TO the Editor Of the Transcript; -
s;,oo tho election is over and peace secured 70
the country for the next four years. INC suoy 90
emigration TO the South is acquiring new 1900
large share of our Nothern people, dne GU :: A.
which il now setting so strongly to the west Is ues-
tino3 coon to be diverted in great degree 10 Tue
richer and more inviting fields OF the South. Ane
Inducements To such emigration either as measure
To promote the public good or private auF"u.Si
are well worthy the consideration oil every ci1ilon
But before considering these, every one VIII uile'
is it safe To this question seFeI"l
En,igration carries safety with IT, 1t is now
llino, on like an avalanche in the face OF hostile
Indian tribes in the West and rapidly estaD!Shihg
Christian States in Indian Ierrltory. a Ilshe u
that emigration, even without the ala 4l Tue
yvould insure entire safety through AL the Souln
, II sbonld be remembered that for every unsaIe
locality in the South there are hundred safe ones
that where one Northern man has been driven from
the South thousand have remained. Let emlgra-
tion be first directed to the safe localities ana very
soon all will be safe
and his power and patronage, have encouraged the
rebels in their misconduct. That is to be SO no
1ongsr The election of General Grant is virtually
the end of the struggle. There will be Individual
executions as there were after Lees surrender, put
the great mass Of the rebels are now as anxious Tor
peace as we are.
= A IT shonld be remembered that bad as the case
has been, majority of the people of the South are
friends to the Northern emigrant Let US see IL II
! "a not So First there are hundreds of thousands
of Northern people already there. Then there are
hundreds of thousands of the loyal Southern peo-
ME equally friendly Add to these four millions OF
colored peope and you have large array of friends
4 ia welcome all who wish to come South. But you
! need not stop here A large share Of the rebels
themselves are now intensely anxious for Northern
| Immigration, because Of the financial prosperity
! thew know it will bring. The hostile element Is
fast dwindling into insgnifcance and IS confined
to conparatively few localities. Let our Northern
peope come first to the most loyal portions OF the
south and very soon all portions will be as safe 81
New England.
answering this question, viii only speak Ior has
Tennessee, where long residence and actua
! knowledge enables me to speak with confidence
We have here q people as loyal as the people o.
/ Massachusetts. We have climate as healthful a
that of New England, and, in the opinion OF some
even preferable to that of Italy
We have manufacturing advantages similar Il
those of New England, with the addition OF 81
abundance of coal.
We have agricultural lands fully equal to thos
of New York. and at quarter the price OF New
York lands
We have lands as cheap and desirable as any tina
can be obtained in the West and not half as far iron
/ New England.
| We have mineral wealth more than that fount
in Pennsylvania and at merely nominal price
Wehave a large Northern population, and Ere
School System.
We have a greater variety of valuable timbe
than can be found in New England, and an aoun
dance of it.
We have fine fruit country, and a fine grain!
We have the advantages of an old and new coun
try combined No portion of the United State
offers greater inducements to the capitalist the man
ufacturer, the mechanic or farmer than are no'
found in East Tennessee. In speaking for this sec
ton alone would not disparage other portions {
the South Let our Northern people come and Sc
for themselves and they viii not fail to reach rlgt
conclusions. The election of Gen. Grant has a
ready inspired great confidence IN the public mlnt
both North and South. Many are already turn IN
their attention in that direction. Let them come Il
great numbers, with their capital skill and enter
prise and we shall need no other reconstruction :
Northern emigration carries with it the church, th
school-house, newspapers and invigorating and I'M
proving influences Give us plenty of Northern EN-
gratOn, and you can take away from the whole sout
the standing army, the Freedman's Bureau mlsslo
schools and all other charities; and yet we sha
have peace in all our borders. Let the Norther
and Southern people live side by side and mingle
business intercourse, and they will soon forget I'll
preiudices that now divide them. The waste place
will be made glad, and strife and violence WI
cease.
The influence of peaceful emigration is as saluti
nv and resistless as the rain and the sunshine. L.
our Northern people turn their efforts into tn
channel, and they will accomplish infinitely MOI
good than they can do by individual missions an
charities. Let the Government use one-half tt
money it is now compelled to spend on the Souther
army in promoting emigration to the South, an
Congress would have no further trouble about re
construction, and the Kuklux Klans would disaI
pear like the mists of the morning.
Is not this view of the subject worthy the conslC
Grafton of our statesmen and of all loyal people
j. ". N ORTIZ.
KaorviHe, Tenn. Nop. 30, 1868.