The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-31

Tao Matter OF IzaInigrasien.
We have not unfrequently referred to
this subject as one Of great importance
to the South. We recur to il now to re-
peat The proposition, that Immigration
is certainly one OF the needs Of the
South, and we desire to add. that it is
incumbent upon US at least to remove all
the barriers that may impede the heaAhful
flow of desirable immigration. We
say heaAhful, because we desire to be
understood as favoring only the intro
duction of goDd elements of population.
Non-immigration is to be preferred to
undesirable immigration. And here let
US observe, that the kind of Immigration
which we need is not otGkely to come from
any forced system, whether that forced
system may be adopted in Europe or in
Asia. The white emigrants who come to
us voluntarily, to improve their oondi-
tion-this is the lass'likely to be q valu-
able accession. Hence, whilst advocat-
ing judicious accession to our numbers
in the South, we cannot but think there
is much of truth in the caution given in
the following cxtractfrom the Richmond
Dispatch: a.. ...t...
eve concur heartily in a paragraph
published by us, few days since. from
the Baltimore Statesman, :deprecating the
rapid crowding Of our, territory with TO-
reign immigrants, forced in by extraor-
binary agencies. Most of these agencies
are not engendered by public spirit-not
prompted by any public necessity. In
the main, they are merely intended to
benefit individual adventurers and fill
the treasures of steamboat and railroad
companies. We trust it will be long
time before this country feels the curse
of excessive pop llation. The nation, in
justice, ought to go on in the natural
way to grow and increase. Let people
come under the desire to better their
condition in the ordinary way. Those
who would thus come would be valuable
citizens. But what sort OF people do
the steamboat and railroad sharks seize
up out of the great sea of European pau
perism2 We arc given to deploring the
fact that we do not, here at the South,
get larger share of the importation.
But our grief is misplaced. We should
rather rejoice that we have nothing to
do with the great bulk of them.
els it great obligation, imposed by
supernatural authority, that this country
must be filed up in few years? Are
we required to see, during our genera
ton. that there shall be no new fields left
for exploration and development by pos
terity? We hope not. Rather let us
hope that new and fertile fields will
be left for our posterity for ages yet to
come. Rather thousand-fold that that
should be the case than that our land
should be prematurely crammed with
incompatible and incongruous masses of
population, filed not only with the vices
and corruptions of our own country, but
with all the worst theories and depravi-
ties of European origin, or the yet worse
peculiarities, moral and religious, of the
other parts of the globe.
"There is great mistake in this idea
of rushing in the currents of population.
In part, it is mania, and in part n
swindle. The honest people are enthu-
siasts, the dishonest are rogues; they
open Pandora's box of evils upon the
nation, and swindle both parties. immi-
grant and employer, with whom they
have dealings.
owe do not oppose healthy immi-
grafton of good people who are able to
come. That sort of immigration would
protect the nation and promote its pros
perity, aud that is the kind all should
desire.'
IL.