New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
IMMIGRATION
A LETTER FROM JUDGE sLoANAKER TO COUNT
BISMARCK.

| 4 LETTER FROM JUDGE sLOANAKER TO COUNT
BISMARCK.
Judge A. B. SloanakeT, Resident Virginia
Agent Of tho American and North German States Imm
grafton Society," has written interesting letter TO Count
Bismarck on the subject OF immigration from which We
| make the following extracts;
The Virginia agency OF corporation Is entire
field Of operation for the development Of the enter
prlss but hazard nothing In the assertion In declaring
that Of all the corporatsd States OF the American Repub
c none present healthy and fruitful field IN the
mate anG resources we'll its people and labor prop
ery controlled under heaul laws, make II the equal
Of tile Republic. What was and is success in
the West feel assured cannot be failure IN VIZ
Rina. The surrounding circumstances ana conditions
arc certainly as haterng, and IN many particulars more
here than there Therefore pease bear :,
his kind offices are duly appreciated extended by HIM in
estly and egtuatey executed by corporation. In
regard to your inquiry to the political status and
months in the State and can but give you my impress
sons, founded upon free interchange Of opinion and
mingling with the people But assure yon II shall be
entirely free from partisan bias In view Of all tho cir
cunstances superinduced by the logic Of events made
essential by tho result OF the consider that the
people Of Virginia are accepting the situation and
keeping pace with the march Of the eyers hitting
changed relations In THIS particular mean the peo
pie as mass and not the exceptional fools GLASS
announce the fact that both OF the political parties In
tho impending In Virginia have presented North
their GubernatOral candidates both OF whom
assisted and sided with the Federal Union in the late
civil strife; and even among the extreme Federasts
there desire to extrpate all Objectionable features Of
the organic lawthe Constitution OF MISUNDERSTANDING
that the continuance OF such barbarOus features IN polt
ica society pregnant with evil and productive OF
good Especially Is this conceded 10 be the fact In view
OF the Fourteenth Amendment Of the Federal Consttu
ton, which expression OF the nations voice TO
be secusOn for the leaders and amnesty for the masses
the late Confederate side; and think that even this
feature VIII IN time be done away with, II the Southern
people only show, community, little more common
sense in rapidly accediDR TO and advancing with the
nations Will aud purposes OF this the freest government
vOuchsaed to man. and intended by the founders OF the
republic 10 be the homo OF the oppressed OF all lands,
and essentially republic OF freemen, matter TO
their nationality color condition, part OF the
grand whole OF human society
This you may accept general synopsis OF the pres
ent political condition OF affairs here And word
20 OF the specific elements OF BOuthern society
TO say except be TO their praise for it conceded
all sides here that they have acted aud done remarkably
well before and since the in view OF all croum
stances and they left alone TO work out their own
destiny, and given an equal and free chance the
OF life with other men, fear that they will proVe
themselves valuable and useful element Of society for
their actions during and since the show all that they
when the prejudice OF the hour has passed away
and pr0prety taken It's proper sway then be.
ueve that al will cOncede that the failure,
and that by the decree OF Providence has worked out
good and lasting end for North aud South alike, and
made this Government keep true 70 the plain purposes
OF our fathers, exhibited by them IN the Declare
tion Of Independence will only add that all may DO
summed up In this form the Southern people have the
land the majority OF which Is unproducye by Of
IT'S uncuyatiOn, the negroes the only mass Of labor
that productive ia agricultural fields therefore 10 Is
plain 10 an unbiased mind that the emergency Of the
hour requires o new element OF society and that can
only DO EXPRESSED IN the oDa wOrd-imnigfaton Tho