Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-22

l1Sm. hlhot W.
standing still, two hundred or more
thousands of Europeans have annu-
ally poured into the Northwest, max
ing more railroads and cities neces-
sary, and furnishing the hands to
build them.
The great question before the people
of the South to-day is labor, and nntl
that question is firmly grappled with
and settled, we will continue to stand
still. Col. FLoURNoY wants two hun
dred or more laborers whom he is
able and willing to pay. Many
thousands of other gentlemen are in a
similar condition. If they had these
laborers they could double the profits
of the merchant, mechanic and nan
ufacturer. How are they to get them?
They have no time to go after them,
nor are they so situated as to readily
form combinations that one may act
for the many. Hence we insist that
it is the duty of our merchants, prop
erty holders and capitalists to step
forward and take the initiative in
working up this great matter.
Within the past month we
called together a great CONNER
cial Convention in our city. At
great expense, we assembled from dis
tant parts of the Union the wealth
and talent of the nation, to consider
questions of moment to the country.
Now, so far as the commercial pros
perity of the South is concerned, all
matters before that body were as
nothing compared to the question we
are now discussing. Give me a full
cram for my lever, said Archimedes,
and l will move the earth. Give us
labor in the South and we will come
near doing the same. But u citi-
zens must move first, and at once, for
the year is wearing away, and labor
| to be available for next season, must
be on hand by the first of the year.
Therefore we ask, nay, and we beg
and entreat our people to be up and
doing. Let a call for a meeting be
issued without delay, and let the
meeting be an important one, not only
to represent Memphis, but all the
| towns of North Mississippi and West
Tennessee; let funds be raised to de-
fray the expenses of an agent, fully
accredited and vouched for, to San
Francisco, with power TO treat with
the six companies of Chinese mer-
chants there residing, for labOrers for
our fields and workshops. Let Us stop
talking and go to work. And if there
be any merit in our suggestions, we
beg to extend them to the notice OF
all the Southern cities. Let every
city send an agent, and let the agents
90 in a body across the Continent, and
if necessary, proceed to China.
Since writing the above the follow
ing letter has been placed at our dis
posal, and we present it TO our readers
as possessing in this connection I'M
usual interest, especially for the farm
ers of the surrounding country:
san Francisco, June II, 1869.
NeSSrS. DORObO, joy C Co.:
Your communication on tNsuliect Of
the introduction OF Chinese ldoOr into the
Southern States has been received. Twas
glad TO hear that the people were NJ !
beginning to look to their interests onthe
question Of labor. The Chinese, if intro
duccd into the agricultural districts OF the
South, where both soil and climate are
alike in svmathy with his nature, viii de-
velope it into one OF the most beautiful,
productive, prosperous and wealthy re-
gions upon the face Of the globe-hiS own
Oriental kingdom not excepted. Your
cotton, rice, tobacco and sugar plantations
viii wear a new livery under the Chinese
system; their plan OF irrigation viii trans
form your barren mountains to the utter
most tops thereof into productive fields,
! and make them to blossom as the rose.
You rivers will be leveed, and what is
now a useless waste OfWaterS viii become
the transit for your inland commerce.
They are socially Chinese; which means
u~nobtrusive, peaceable, quiet, indus
| triOus, sober and hOnest-indeed, in these
traits our own people could learn by Chi
/ HESE tAdhtADAG q AALODA - AAN
would soon crowd out the lazy, useless
negro-the present bane of your country.
The cultivation of silk ant tea could
also be made profitable; indeed, no other
labor is so peculiarly adapted to the
| Southern States as Chinese. Some may
| object to the introduction of heathens
among them, but they viii soon find out
that they (heathens) are more sinned
| against than SHINING. / have submitted
| soma pronOSitiOnS in this relation to the
| chief of the immigration companies and
will communicate with you more fully
| soon. For the present l remain,
Your obedient servant,
B.. MORGAN.
What Messrs. DONOHO, JOY 4 Co.
are doing should receive the endorse
ment of the proposed meeting, and all
the encouragement Il planters can
afford.