Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-04-16

but if ignoramuses are to have charge of
the finances of the State if thieves are to
control our railroads. and if public officers
are to offer rewards for murder, the credit
of North Carolina will never be re-estaE-
lished.
For the Journal.
Emigration scheme" at the North.
In Boston paper of late date, ] find the
following paragraph of local news, but of
| national importance
cat meeting held in the Meionaon yesterday.
for the purpose of considering the advantages of
emigration to Virginia, and taking preliminary
measures for establishing colony of Northern
settlers in that State, it resolved that colo
MES for immigration to Virginia be formed that
Treasurer be elected. who shall give bonds for
an honest expenditure of the funds received, and
the interest upon the amount subscribed shall be
invested in good securities for the advantage of
the Society" &c.
regard the information contained in
the above paragraph as of first importance
to the people of North Carolina. Of the
late slaveholding States, none possesses
greater advantages nor offers Inducements
| to settlers superior to those held out by
our State. Fertile in soil, rich in mineral
resources, possessing the finest water power
in the world, climate unsurpassed in the
country, and with population remarkable
for honesty and their love of law and order,
it seems to me that if any country in the
world can attract immigrants, North Caro-
lima must, when the advantages nature has
endowed her with are sufficiently known
to be appreciated.
! As the readers of the JOURNAL are aware,
a very commendable effort is being made
by the Goldsboro' immigration Association
to bring settlers, or laborers, from Europe,
but the known ill-success of the agent,
now abroad on this mission, induces me to
think the movement somewhat premature,
and the scheme, to say the least an extrava-
CANT undertaking for the times and the
present state of our exchequer.
think Mr.. Atkinson, the agent. sent to
Europe last Fall, would have accomplished
more in Massachusetts, in four weeks than
he has been able to do in as many months
in Switzerland.
We want any number of live Yankees
down here in the South, and we must have
them. think about the best reconstruct
ton that we can now propose for ourselves
is to get all the Yankees we can down
South and make Southern men of them.
It has been done. And the only way to
rid ourselves of the carpet Dagger" is to
employ his old neighbors to drive him out.
Respectable Yankees say that the exit of
the 60 carpet Dagger" from the North was
induced by the home pressure brought to
bear upon him there. and if this be so, and
do not doubt it, why can't that which has
once been done in Massachusetts be re-
peated in North Carolina?
Whatever we may say or think Of the
inevitable Jonathan, and Heaven knows
we can think and say the balance of our
days, and die leaving the task but begun,
no one will deny his energy. perseverance
and industry. And this is what we want
of him now. His peculiar notions of gov
eminent, and political crochets, will do us
no more harm. The irrepressible con-
fict" is over, our leading institutions
have departed the land, and clothed in the
sack-cloth of poverty. we are sitting in
the ashes of our former splendor, dream
ing of lost wealth and bemoaning our
blighted prosperity.
One of the great disadvantages attend
ing the few Europeans already brought
over, is their total unacquaintance with
our language, and the manners and GUS
toms peculiar to Americans. These con-
siderations have appeared SO insignificant
as to have been lost sight of by many,
while few have not been able to see them
at all !; nevertheless these are important
facts and demand our gravest considera-
ton, else we stand in danger of producing
dissatisfaction in the minds of these for
eigners, whom we have induced to sever
home ties and connections, to come with
us, and thus materially retard, for a long
time to come, every scheme of foreign i'm
migration to the South.
i With the Northern man it is quite diff
ferent. He is sufficiently acquainted with
us, and every circumstance surrounding
us ; has had enough to do with bringing
about the state of affairs, South, to make
it certain that he will be satisfied from the
moment he arrives but if he should find
anything not to his liking. we may be
pretty sure that Jonathan will not be long
in accommodating matters to his own "no-
} TONS"
will not understand each other as we
should. We shall be disposed to regard
him too exclusively hired laborer, while
his expectations, most likely are, that he
} is to be landowner. In the majority of
instances Jonathan would, perhaps, come
with the same idea, and come, too, pre-
pared to carry them out. This is what we
may expect, and what reason desires. I'm
migrants from any part of the world can
, readily become land owners in the West,
D almost, if not quite, for the asking, now
and with the Europeans, land being land,
l the greater portion of them will go where
the acre" inducement is offered. But
Jonathan being s. cute" will readily
. "swap" the climate of the North and
West for the South, and give "boot."-
g He appreciates our climate over that of the
: North and West, while the peasantry oil
{ Europe do not.
; Further than the negro goes, think
that We of the South may as we'll give uI
our ideas OF large plantations until we are
D in condition to pay high prices for labor
= then we can command it; but in the pres
= emit condition of our lands, but little better
than half prepared for cultivation, and nc
: well regulated system of labor, we cannot
t The fertile lands of the West when frs
II opened were planted and cultivated il