Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-13

In 1854 Fifteen years ago. there
came to this country no less than 22,-
74O Irish, and in the same year 219,-
900 Germans arrived; or, in all, nearly
half a million of population was
added to the States of the North in a
single season from the two countries
mentioned. We say they were added
to the States of the North, for none
scarcely came South, and those who
did come were of the class who stay
in towns and cities and add but little
towards the development Of the re-
sources of a new country. The
six millions of people who have
settled in the North since 1920, and
their offspring now number probably
fifteen millions, and it is that fifteen
millions of people which have placed
New York, New England and the
whole country they populate so far in
advance of US in material wealth.
Their power and POSITIONS due motto
any natural advantages of soil and
climate they possess, but simply to the
great migration of people TO their
shore from Europe. Their wealth is
the amount of bone and muscle they
possess. We having a superior eli
mate and a better soil, are poor
merely for the lack of it.
They have at Washington Mr..
DELAMAR, a Government statistician,
who puts forth the following facts in
c~orrobOratiOn Of our assertion that
ours is the best soil and
climate. In the year 1867
the products of the South exported
amounted to S32S, 400, 759; per caput,
s34 81. The same year the products
of the North exported amounted to
s143, 2O1, S41; per caput s. 10. Thus it
will be seer that, notwithstanding the
disparity gpop1datioR, the productions
ofthe South for export exceeded those
of the North by 1885,, 2O4, 91S! This is
certainly wonderful, but il is never
theless true. And from the same
source we derive the additional
fact that in the same year as referred
to above, the South produced 334
bushels OF Indian corn per caput,
whilst the North produced but %
bushels per caput. Here, then, ii is
shown that we not only have the
money end of the continent, but the
corn end also; and it is well known
that hogs are a natural accompani-
ment Of the full corn crib. We may
be told that although we may raise
the mos corn we raise no wheat.
True, and the reason therefor is not to
be found in the fact that our soil and
climate is not friendly and suitable
for grain, but because cotton, rice and
sugar are more remunerative crops.
The whole valley of the Mississippi,
when once cleared and drained, will
be found as admirably adapted to
wheat growing as the valley of the
Nile. To pursue this line of argu-
ment further: In the year 1853, a
noted debate occurred in the House
of Representatives between the Hon.
ALEX. II. STEPHENS and one of the
Representatives from Ohio. The gem
tleman from Ohio in endeavOring to
show the disparity between free and
slave labor in a money producing
point of view, appealed to statistics
and held up Ohio and Georgia in COM
parison. This brought Mr.. STEPHENS
TO his feet. He demanded of the gen.
tleman on the other side that he name
the current market price of each and
every agricultural production of his
State. 1t was given, On his part
Mr.. STEPHENS appended the market
value of all. the productions of Geors
gia-the data on both sides coming
from the United States census reports.
Mr.. STEPHENS then proceeded to show
that Georgia had less than one-third
the population of Ohio, and less than
one-fourth the money invested in land,
live stock and implements. Yet her
products were, yearly, greater than
those Of Ohio By sereraI millions!
We wish we had moretime to care
fully analyse the statistics of trade to
see at what point the North COM
menced leaving US behind. We have
before us a map Of the United States
published by MITCHELL, in 1886. A
railroad was then in operation from
Charleston to Hamburg, S. c., which
was the longest in the United States.
There was a road from Washington to
Baltimore, but none between Balti-
more and Philadelphia!
1t is not the possession of a better
soil or climate or any other natural
advantages which has caused the
to outstrip us since the year
I776, but merely the numbers which
have poured in to swell her aggre-
gates.
We have already shown that nature
las shOwered upon us her richest gifts,
Ter greatest blessings; but in conse-
Iuence of a sparse population, we are
Unable to gather but a moiety of what
,ur good mother has placed in reach.
IN the other hand the North, produc-
ne articles for which there is but a
limited demand, has grown greater
nd more powerful than we, and we
endeavored to show the causes
which have brought about her growth
nd greatness.
The question now for us to decide is
whether we would like to be the
DUAL or superior of that great coun-
ry; whether it is more pleasant to
emain second and vassal, or stand
Orth peer to any in the lands For
urselves, we choose the latter. We
re not of those who would wait to
greatness thrust on us, we rather
refer to achieve if. To achieve
t as the people of the North
ave done by inviting and procuring
vast immigration to our midst. In
'ur articles heretofore, we pointed to !
he impracticability of obtaining i'm
Migrants from Europe, and to the
ase and certainty of getting them