Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-15

EmEItsn lmmtKrauoms
Our Immigration conventions have
snt some practical men on misslons 10
Europe. None Of them, however, argues
az we'll as Mr.. Edward Hamilton, from
whose address TO the Manchester and
Liverpool Cotton Surnly Company,
urging an emigration OF English Iaborers
to our cotton lands to cultivate the
s,aplesvs take the following sensible re-
marks:
T"In 4hs latitude Of New York The
thermometer is often near to hum
dred degrecs Of Fahrenheit 10 summer,
aud down TO some ten or Efteen below
zero in winter. In the extfeme of the
Southern States the heat and cold ranges
from about twenty TO ninety degrees o +
Fahrenheit. Now. would it not seem
re asons able to suppose the possibility Of
more working days in these States than
10 those where the cold 80 terribly pre-.
walls? From, the FIRST Of November of
one year to the last of July in the next,
there can certainly be no better country
for labor than portions Of the Southern
States Then, when wertfect that these
States are embraced by latitude extend
log from the Gulf Of Mexico to the banks
Of the Ohio, we must certainly see no
ground for argument against the employ.
ment Of white labor upon ct least the ma,
jor;ty Of their lands.
7" But what says the voice Of history
upon this subject ? If we contemplate
the monu m snts of human genius that now
stand or lie, with the dust of long ages
upon them, in Southern Europe, in Africa,
Farther India, and even in Central
America if we remember for moment
that these are as bright and as standing
q record of human toll as of genius--we
must admit that there have been hercu
lean labors performed in tropical and
semi-tropical countries by other hands
than those Of the African or even the
Chinaman. 1t would certainly be the
very hight of sbsurdity to suppose that
the negro had been present 10 ell ages
and 10 all warm countries to hew the wood
and to draw the water requisite to the
demands of rearing those stupendous
works that have Knocked the waste of
thirty centuries We would be explicit
upon this part of our srgsment, that we
may do something toward disabusing the
public mind OF an error that has long
been turning the tide Of emigration from
Europe toward our North and Northwest,
thus divertiug it from some Of the fairest
portions of the earth, and thereby doing
violence to the interests of. all concerned.
There are spots on Southern soil that
could be made, in a very few years, al
most another Eden, if good class Of
emigrants could be induced to undertake
the work, and these spots are even now
as conducive TO health and longevity as
the best portions Of Europe.
"But toturn again to the practical as:
pects Of this subjects We have already
remarked that from the first of Novem-
Der until the last of July, even 10 the ex-
IRENE Southern States. more days can be
devoted to labor than in almost any other
country. In these months the burden Of
plantation work could be performed, with
but one or two exceptions. January and
February can be devoted to breaking
dp and sub-soiing the the land; March
and April to planting; May, June and
July to cultivsting and taking care of
the. matured crops; while August will
Gud the cotton crop laid aside and pre-.
pared for the somewhat tedious and
trying work of picking. And right here
is the sole difficulty in the whole matter
to be met, fpr this aost trying Of plsnta-
ton work has to be wrought in tbs most
sickly portions Of the year. Yet we
believe that with proper care, and by de.
voting but about six to eight hours labor
to this work, the crop can be housed with
perfect safety to the laborer. We have
noticed no increase of sickness, but
rather more health, among those of the
white population woo hsss taken to
work since the emancipation Of the
slaves. Exertion seems to brace the
constitution against the tendencies Of
feeblinR II.
And now, gentlemen, should you be
induced to enter upon the work of trans
planting some Of the better class of your
labor population to the Southern States
Of America, we can assure you, from
more than twenty years experience in
that country, that you would plant them
among 0 brave, generogs and chiyalric
people. And should they become the
proprietors eventually of the soil which
they cpltiFate-wbich il What yo pou-
temp IN our piGn OF emigraton--and
mingle with the people of the country, no
doubt but that the result would be race
of men, at length, as important TO the
future of America aud the world as the
race which now Yields the destinies Of
Middle and Southern Earope-that race
being lie offspring Of cross between the
citizens of the Western Roman empire
and tier horthsrp eonsqesoFsi'
We know OF no plabs in this country
where EngIishmen will fud themselves so
much "at home" or be more welcome
than in this, where they will be apt to
meet many descendants of the old
stock who in colonial times settled 10
Georgia and Virginia. Land can be
procured here now on very reasonable
terms; and parties who may not be dis
pesed to cIl6vats cotton Cad Hnd marble
quarries and coal beds to work along the
banks OF the Tennessee river. Garden
ers will find the suburbs of Memphis the
best place for them to locate, and good
laborers can easily procure employment
10 the city. On the 18Th inst. the first
steamer in the direct trade line starts
from Liverpool 70 Chsrleston, s. C., and
The railroad from the latter place TO this
poiut is likely to bring US o batch Of
EugIish workers. The skies are bright
euing, and "there's good time coming"
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