Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-07

OF our IaGnerS, eXQlDlCeu Dy
them in the Declaration of In.
dependence. [ will only ado
that all may be summed up il
this form: the Southern people
have the land, the majority o
which is unproductive, by rea
son of it's uncultivation, the
negroes are the only class o:
labor that are productive in
agricultural fields: therefore
it is plain to an unbiased mind
that the emergency of the hour
requires a new element of SO.
ciety; apd that can only be ex-
pressed in the one word-im.
migration. The immigrant
will cultivate the waste Ian DIS
of the Southern men by the
most improved and skilled
mode of agriculture. They
will employ the cheap and now
unproductive negro labor, and
hence all casses of society will
be satisfied, and a general
prosperity will follow the Ia
bors of the people in inuring to
the common benefit of all; and
when this happy benefit is &C
complished no one can tell
what the future greatness of
all the States will be in the I'LL
innate grandeur Of this Repub-
lie. May God in his provi-
dence hasten the desired end
is the prayer ofall well-wishers
of this country, and in which
sentiment | feel assured that
you, as the most mar6ed living
statesman of the age, will most
heartily and sincerely join.
In conclusion, permit me to
Say that what immigration has
done for the West, by building
up and creating that vast and
populous region of the nation
in the past, it will certainly
accomplish in the future for the
South; in reviving and regene-
rating her condition, now
dropping under the misfortunes
of war and her changed condi-
ton of labor, instead Of her
past condition of a landed and
labo1ed aristocracy will be sub
stituted the blessings of free
paid labor, and a community
system Of society. Why, sir,
we of the West know that the
European immigrants leave
their native fields for the
American forest, and soon be-
come lifelong devoted to the
country that adopts them as
her own. Commerce, with its
golden chains, through this
medium links our shores with
the tarthest corners of the
earth. The mighty mountains
are climbed by the steam car or
dashed aside to make way for
the channel upon which trade
floats her inland argosies. The
emigrants heretofore advanced
westward, and the wilderness
falls and on it's ruins rise splen-
did cities and cultivated fields.
He reaches the broad river
and soon it's CLASSY surface is
cleft by a thousand keels. He
strikes sthe quarry and the
white marble comes forth to
beautify cities, and to be chisled
into monuments to commence
rate the mighty deeds of the
nation, and to transmit to pos
terity the features of the great.
He perforates the mountain and
drags to the sunlight the ex-
haustless treasures of its ruins.
He reaches the stream and be-
hold it's waters run bright with
shining gold. By immigra-
ton, which is population, the
advantages OF civilization in
crease, so that even the metallic
rod is raised aloft and the
storm is robbed of its terrors;
and the wires are thrown over
the land and the lightning
leaps to do our bidding. The
immigrant OF yesterday is made
under our free institutions al
most the statesman of to-day,
directing new rules for the
peace of nations, the freedom
of the seas, and the welfare of
our people and community.
With immigration comes the
thinking of the people and
with it's advantage of education
is being diffused among the
masses. Intolerance is depart
ing, the Catholic is emancipa-
ted and the Protestant worships
in his own chapel. Such has