Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-14
following is the resuIt:10
South Carolina-Capt. Green.

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Alabama-Gus A. Henry.
LOuisiana-Judge w. III. Sutton.
LAS the name of Judge Sutton
was called, the Judge stated that
the Chamber of Commerce of
New Orleans had appointed
twenty delegates to the Convention,
and that he was not the only repre-
sentative of Louisiana present. The
whole State felt an abiding interest in
the subject.
Arkansas-T. c. Flournoy.
Missouri. NJ. Davis.
CalifOrnia-C. w. Wiekers.
Tennessee-E. M. AppersOn.
The committee, on being called, re-
tired for consultation, after which the
Chair announced that the Hon. j. w.
Clapp had been selected to address the
assemblage, and while the Committee
on Permanent Organization were out
engaged in deliberation, he would do
Mr.. Clapp was-then introduced by
Mr.. Kortrecht, and spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen:
l regret very much indeed, that l
am compelled to come before you as
an orator without a speech. l was
only notified yesterday even
ing that was expected
to address you. was exhausted by
the labors of the day, and this morn
ing l have had no opportunity to ma
ture or digest my thoughts. But |
know you did not come for a speech.
/ see before me practical, farseeing
business men, men who came here for
a particular purpose. l regret to have
to state to you that the individual who
expected to meet US here, Mr.. KOop-
manschaap, has as yet not arrived. l
hope he will be here in the afternoon.
He was to have informed US about
every particular in the matter. Mean
while l shall only discuss the question
in general terms, and occupy your
time while the Committee on Perma-
nent Organization is out. There are
objections raised to this movement
that we are about inaugurating,
by Conscientious men, who say
we are about to open the
hOodgates of a country of idOlaters,
and deluge our country with heathens;
that we will get so mixed up here
with the different races that we shall
hardly know our own wives and chill
dren. As to these objections ] think
l may answer, as [ said on the previ-
GUS occasion at our first meeting. As
to mixture of races, | think we have
touched bottom; We can't get a worse
mixture than we have nov, Have
we not had a mingling of races in
this country since the beginning Of its
settlement? We have had the red
man, the Caucasian and the African.
Three races have occupied the cOun-
try and developed it. There is no
clash Of interests, and no disturbance
worthy of note arising from the pro-
pinquity 81 these heterogeneous
elements. Is il then probable that a
laboring race will introduce an ele-
ment of discOrd? There is GEG ECtenta
act-labOr is the basis Of our prosper
ity. We have without doubt great
resources. No people on whom the
sGs shines have the same wealth of
resources where the labor is SC made
quate to its deyelOpement. We had
at one time this LABOR to a certain eX-
tent, but it has vanished, 2Hd the la
Dor now is voluntary; they employ
themselves at pleasure, and nay expe-j
is they please to do so to a very
extent.
Now to show that the 'dea that We
are going TO ''open the fiOodgates, is
absurd, and that those who apprehend
danger tbeEetFeE a%pprehend a CHM
era, and WOuld raise the cry of fire
the delure, look at tie follow
figures: 4
Prussia, with an ri of 1917 ,0003
square miles, has a population Of over
u .l000, 600, n III to the square mile.
France with an area Of 200, f2S
square miles, has a population Of 38,-
~, 094, or 1870 10 G.e SQUARE mile.
Holland, withan area 6ft2 s90square
has a population Of 3,6iS,GlG, or
200 to the square mile.
China propGF-lnOt including
chinese Tart2ry or Chiti Iqdia) has an
urea of i,29s, 600 square miles end a
population Of 3#5, 0O0, 600, or 270 to the
square mile!
England, area SIS, 1902 square miles
population a millions; 81 to the
fHare mile.
Tennessee, area ) 1000 square miles;
population l,IlO,OOO, or "A to the
quare mile.
Mississippi, area a, zee square miles;
population 1872, 600 or IL to tie square
Alabama, area 80, 700 square miles,;
964, 900 or 10 to the square
nile.
Arkansas $4,000 square miles;
population 1876 900 or 8 to the square
nile.
Louisiana, area 46, 346 squire miles;
population 70S, 900 or 16 to the square
nile.
Texas, area zs7 600 square miles;
population 604,OOQ or p u the square
nile.
Florida, $1,000 square miles; popQ
alton $4,000 Or 2! to the square !
nile.
Georgia, area $4,000 square miles;
tO%pulatiOn l,557, 900 or Is to the square
1ile. {
South Carolina, area 24,OO0 square /
liles, population 100000; % to the {
guare mile. {
North Carolina, area 50, 704 square /
niles, population 992,G22; D to the {
luare mile. |
Virginia, ares 81, 1852 square miles,
Opulation 1873, 000, or 30 to the square g
lile. Z
The aggregate area of the eleven {
Quthern States quoted is 756,S52, or c
D average of l25 persons TO the square c
lille, or % acres to every man, woman a
nd child. Take Ope-fifth of the pop t
as capable Of iaboring, and it g
an average of 265 acres to the la t
Orer. This average would be in IL i
Ividual States as follows: In MiSsis- 9
ppi $50 acres; Arkansas, $50 acres; Fl
ld in Texas 1850, to the laborer. p
the land is as capable Of sustaining t
dense a population as some of those q
e have quoted, any agricultural b
iuntry-nOt England, for Lon b
IN alone is a vast en- p
re-but China, Mississippi "
Ould sustain u, 600, 900 Of inhabit- s.
It's, Arkansas u, 000, 600, and Texas Ia
200, 700. The eleven Southern RI
ateS as densely populated as France, d
Ould sustain a population of 129, 3D. Il
s; or, if we take Holland as a basis, !
100000; China, 1901 900, 600; Eng Of
nd, 262, $4,000. Ia other words, ii
.ssissippi would sustain a population &C
12,D00,000 more than she has, Ar 81
nSas, 14,000,000 and so on. Now,
zen you look at this vast area of I'M tr
and untitled land, is there st
one so chimerical as to think that W
are to be OVERLOADED with labor? MS
here is the practical danger? We "
lid receive Immediately and pros or
, six or seven million of these la he
'ers. O.
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