Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-04
The Resources Of the South The Coun-
try for the Emigrant.

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At a meeting Of The Fruit Growers
Club, on Thursday last,, Which WAS
tully-reported-in yesterdays Hesald,
several Southern gentlemen described
the South, with its vast and imper-
fcctly developed resources, as q land
Of promise for the cmigrant. Gen.
Tochman, for instance, whose foreign
birth prscludcs him from being sus-
pcctcd Of sectional prcjudiccs, and
whose long residence III this country
qualities him to speak authoritativc!y
on the subject, presented = glowing
but not exaggerated picture Of the
South as 4 most dcsi, abe home tor
,cmigrants from, the North and from
Europe. Statistical tables show the
rate of mortality to bo less, and that
of longevity to be greater in the
South than i'll the North and West.
The exports of the cotton, rice.
sugar and tobacco producing States
are still, as they were before the war,
greater than the exports of the North,
East and West combined. "Thc
war;" said Gen. Tochman, "has inn
povcrishcd the people, but has not
changed the climate nor destroyed
the fertility Of the soil" The report
for 1867 of tho statistical bureau ~,
Washington exhibits the fact that the
population of the Southern States for
that year was 9,5Gs,70o, while thei,
exports amounted to S329, 40G,157.
The population Of all the other States
in the same year was 24,91G,7G5, and
their exports s2l3, 202, ,ol3. Thus
while tho Southern States had but
wcnty-cight per cent. Of the entire
population, they furnished sixty-nine
per cent. of the total value of cx-
ports.
What is true of tho genial climate
and fertile soil of The South in general,
embracing, cast of tho Mississippi,
Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Ken
tuclly, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and, west
of the Mississippi, Arkansas, parts of
Louisiana, and tho great imperial
State Of Texas, which alone is equal
to eight such States as New York, in
size, and almost equal to the same
number in productivcncss-what is
true of the entire South is particularly
true Of Virginia. That State, in.
Guiding West Virginia, has an extent
of 61,255 square miles. No other
State in the Union has such variety
of surface, of climate and of products
Tobacco, swee. and Irish potatoes
wheat and other grain, tho fig and
olive Of the Promised Land-whicl
lies in the same latitude, and is shonc
upon by the same skies that the
natriarchs Of the Bible were wont tc
; gaze at-inexhaustiblc mineral wealth
coal, available water power and in
= crcasing facilities of transport ant
, communication, aro among the in
), duccmcnts that invite the cmigrant tt
E Virginia.
l A farm of three hundred or fou
hundred acres can be purchased thcr,
for what it costs to go with a famil,
$ to the Northwest or to tho Pacific
/; Long credits are offered, so that til
4 farmer Of moderate means can sccur
Il a homestead at less trouble and ex
! pense than anywhere else. Moreove,
: the work Of reconstruction is stcadil,
progressing in Virginia and in all tn
other Southern States. 1t will doubt
. less bo completed before tho Pres
q dental term of General Grant sha
end. Those who now cmigratc Sout
:, will enjoy sure prospect of sharin
IS in its recovered prosperity, and {
! bequeathing to their children a her
f. tagc Of solid wealth. Gen. Tochma
d and the other Southern speakers 6
J. the meeting towhich we have alluded
l. did not exaggerato the attractions {
), the South, and especially of .Viagini.
v as the country for the emigrant. Th
n old war cry, "On to Richmond" ha
l.; now acquired a new meaning. soutl
d lerners themselves have adopted it q
It an appeal to Northerncrs to "mov
t on to Richmond with their hoes an
" plows, and spindles. and mills, an
3. help tosrebuild the Mother of State
I and of Washington. Such an appe,
c cannot be made in vain.-New 70,
I Herald, OH.
IF JAPANESE LoGIc.-Many of tn
y doctrines Of science have been reiectc
1t by good people because they wer
E. supposed to conflict with ccrtai
r teachings Of the Bible. The Japanes
T treason in the. same manner a oo;ps