The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-08-28
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MIR. Dickson ON Immigration.
oSrARTA, GA, june 10, 1869.

spianters OF the Soutn 10 The SuDJcct OF
Immigration, 1t is one of great interest,
and if successful, I think will prove
destructive to the cotton interest. do
not wish my views to prevail unless they
are right. Iwish both sides to be heard;
thn other side has been heard already,
and we have been taxed to promote this
cause. The State of Georgia is moving
1for our destruction.
The negro we have with us, and VIC
/ cannot get rid of him if we would. They
will not die out, as most of our Northern
friends and many of our people think.
Next census will show large increase.
The only way to make it tolerable for
them to live amongst us, is to give them
enployn,eut. With full employment,
- they will steal less, be more law-abiding,
and less nuisance in every way. Do
we want more labor, and for what? The
agricultural interest at the South is
chiefly valuable for its production of
cotton, tobacco and rice. Can we make
more money by doubling the quantity of
labor. THAI we can out of what we now
ihayef Do numbers increase tho quantity
of labcr pro rata, or will the dividends
be greater for all concerned? +? Can the
first million of people in Georgia, having
the first choice of lands to cultivate and
the balance for pasture, make more or
less than the second IN lion, having the
poorest half to cultivate, and no waste
land for stock to Craze on? Is the
'second million likely TO be more skilful
industrious. w-abiding and cntcrprising.
s6' l think history teaches us that
population, with plenty If room and
land, are more cheaply governed than
dense pnpulation-can live better and
,csn have more labor to spare f improve
: Anaents. What country has built the same
amount of Railroads and FuctGrics as
the United States? The United States
having plenty of lands to cultivate, by
selecting the best, can, with one-half of
Its lnborers, make plenty of all the
products of the soil, whilst the other
half can build Railroads aud machinery
of all kinds, and work them The
Cotton States, with it's present labor,
can build more Railroads, erect more
factories, develope more mines, carry
education and refinement to a higher
point than ifthe population was increased
fourfold. With cotton at twenty-five
cents per pound: you have money to do
whatever you wish collectively. In 1S4S
and 40, with 100000 to 100000
bales of cotton in Liverpool cotton sold
In Augusta ut from 4 to 81 cents With
100000 to 100000 bales at present in
Liverpool cotton is selling in Augusta
from 25 to 20 cents per pound. Why
do you wish to make the chungc? Our
Northern friends say, if we do not pro-
duce cotton cheaper, we will lose the
trade / am willing to lose it, if it can
only be held by making cheap cotton. If
they would take little more interest in
preventing the loss of our liberty, Instead
of the loss of the cotton trade, it would
insure to the benefit of both sections.
Give us our liberties and constitutional
rights, with our best men to represent
US in all departments, and we can make
as much cotton as the world wants, at
fair prices, if it be ten million of bales.
without an outside man or dollar. Good
government would do more 70 develope
this country than all the men and money
in the world
Cotton planters, it is not to your inter
est to sell your land at mere nominal
price. How can you invest your money
to any better advantage. Land must
advance in price. In thirty years, with
out single immigrant, Georgia will
have population of two millions of
people-the sons and daughters of the
present population. BE patient-wait
for the natural increase, and what may
voluntarily como. DO not spend yonr
money to hasten an over-populated
country. 1t will conc soon enough, and
when it does come, you will have no out
let. Some are willing to cut their lands
up in small lots and give every alternate
DOT to Immigrants, thinking it will more
than double the price OF the balance.
What do you care what your lands are
worth, if you have none to sell-besides,
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