The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-06

"S hioS0IAehy Al securing success, buS Will
enable us TO make the magazine greater
benefit to the public than we could hope to
do without your assistance. / We would like
to make the magazine the official organ of
the State Agricultural Society, and We take
the liberty Of asking Your consent 10. do 80.
and also your appreciation and support
Yours, very 5espsstfnilys I a..
Per RoswEhh T. LOGAN,
A. A. Gilbert. Esq, offered the following
resolutions. which were unanimously adopt
ed: % " - JiI ~ =
ftesofoed, That it is the sense of this So
ciety that the publication Of this journal by
Messrs Walker, Evans & Cogswell is of
vital Importance to the successful develop
ment OF the material resources of this State
and of the entire South, and we heartily
pledge our influence and support to them in
this their enterprise. -lGF
Resolred, That the President of this So
ciety be requested to appoint 4 'Committee
OF Three, from each County, whose duty it
Will be to interest the people of their re-
spective Count in said magazine.
The Convention then adjourned, to meet
the following morning at O'Clock.
THURSDAY, April 29.-The Convention
met at o'clock, and after the proceedings
of the previous day we're read. II. s. BoiH-
immigration and Labor, submitted the fol-
lowing: - ~ .ltS 1f ~ .~r.
The committee to whom was assigned the
duty of reporting upon the subject of i'm
migration and labor, beg leave to submit
the following paper as the result of their
deliberations:
There can be no concealment of the fact
that we are living under a new and altered
condition of affairs. and though there be an
n oct n Of
zens as to whether the new system be to the
advantage, or preiudicial to the interests of
the country and the development Of the re-
sources OF the State, interest and duty alike
demand that we face existing facts in con-
formity with their stern demands.
No question is perhaps more important to
oil the material interests of the State than
that Of labor, for, without it, of what avail
will be all the improvements in mechanics.
arts and agriculture? Under that ancient
regime, when the old Palmetto State enioved
a flood tide of prosperity, there was an Or
ganization and an efficiency which crowned
our agricultural efforts with commensurate
success; but our altered circumstances de-
mand an altered basis of operations. That
labor is now, in n large measure, disorgan-
lied and unreliable, and it may be in part
attributed TO the mistakes of the agricul-
turists themselves, in making the laborer a
as his suddenly altered condition and the
miserable influence of willy politicians:
what remains to US must be made available
TO the greatest possible extent, and what is
then wanting to supply the demand must be
brought to us from. the over-crowded do
mains of Europe, whose hands are always
now extended to generous and hospitable
America, asking among us a home and q
country.
Your committee deem it important TO the
availability and organization of the present
class of laborers upon whom we are. in the
main, now dependent that there should be,
as far as possible, n uniformity of usage in
the matter OF compensation to the laborer,
and all equitable and just fulfilment of all
contracts
AS your committee have adverted to the
fact that the present supply of labor is in
adequate to the demand, the query arises,
how this difficulty is to be met? and the
answer is, by the introduction of immi-
grants from abroad; The practical success
of this remedy il fully established by re-
ference to what has been already accom-
Piished by the Immigration Society of
Newberry, which, with a capital of few
hundred dollars, q board of unsalaried
officers, (save their agent only twelve
months existence, and without O State
appropriation to back her, has already in
troduced near 800 immigrants into her own
and surrounding Counties, and is now
arranging for much more extensive intro
duction of laborers during the ensuing sea-
son. The laborers she has introduced are.
with very few exceptions, giving universal
satisfaction to their employers, nnd the
greater the increase in the number of en-
Ployees introduced. the more will they be
contented and pleased; and when once you
have gathered together on Carolina's soil
the first few thousand of these skilled and
able-bo'lied laborers, you will have formed
a nucleus which you will have no difficulty
in gathering, to an indefinite extent, n
thrifty, industrious and honest class of
labOrers