Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-29
EIEMp[IIS APPEAL
MONDAY mORNINs. MARCH 20. 1858
IMMIGRATION.

Commissioner HERMANN BOKUMi
whose report for the month Of March
will be found on our second page, fore
stalls our desire to know why there is so
little disposition to immigrste to this
part OF the State, by the statement that
it is owing to the prevalence Of an inn
preston that society with US is less set
tied thai in q other portion of Ten
nessee. No greater fallaey exists. Order
is as much q characteristic Of the people
of West Teunesses as OF those Of the East
and Middle divisions OF the State. On
towns contain populations SIS industrious
and quiet SIS those Of the other sections,
and in every direction around Us there
may be witnessed the results OF a lsbnri-
u effort characteristic only of those
who are pesce-ioyiDg, prudent and
enterprising. Commissioner BOKUOI
should visit West Tennessee. He should
look in upon the elegant and refined
circles Of Jackson, take note Of the in
telligent and thrifty people of Browns
vile he should visit the quiet and plod-
ding, but energetic people o. Paris,
Union City, Ripley, CoviEgton and
DyersbUrg and Inform himself Of the
plans and purposes for the future Of the
planters of the Western District, their
system Of farming, spirit Of progress and
general efforts for prosperity and wealth.
We desire that Commissioner BOKUM
shall take immediate steps for q contra
diction Of this prevalent and injurious
opinion regarding Us, by q comparison
Of our vital statistics, growth, products,
wealth and love Of order with any other
similar portion OF the United States.
We are not afraid Of the result. 1t will
tell the whole story. a people who in
creased 30 rapidly in numbers and at
tanned to so much distinction IN the de-
csde from 1850 to 1860, as is apparent by
q glance st the census tables Of the latter
year, could find bat little time for disor-
ders, opposition to law, or defiance of
social comfy, such as the Commissioner
says people abroad give US credit for.
The prevalence Of an opinion to the con-
trsry is an injustice from which we
should no longer suffer. We want our
share OF immigrants. We pay as much
for the support Of the Commissioner and
his Office and officers as the East or
Middle Districts, perhaps more ; and in
asking Mr.. BOKUM 10 take particular
pains to dispel this erroneous impression
in regard to q people, we but ask the
performance OF q duty which he
owes to them. We are rejoiced to note
the rapid and increasing immigration to
Middle and East Tennessee, and believe
with Mr.. BoKUM, that it will be bene-
fetal, not. alone to those sections, but to
the State at large but, as an earnest Of
the progressive spirit which we claim for
our people, we insist upon pressing our
claims for a share Of every. good thing
agoing. We have as good lands, and as
much Of them for sale SIS can be found
In any well settled and thrifty district of
the South. RoYsTER, IRRELEVANT &
Co., real estate brokers, of this city, have
q large list, which they are Offering a.
unusually advantageous rates; and
MoNsARRAT, LANIER d Co another Of
our Influential real estate firms. adver-
tise enough land to make a respectable
sized State, and upon terms and at rates
that enables them successfully to COM
pete with the land owners or ~auctioneers
OF any other State, even the favored
ones Of the Northwest. In climate, soil,
productions and population, West Ten
nessee cannot be surpassed. Let Com
BoKUM, by personal observs-
ton, convince himself Of the fact, then
spread the truth for US as industriouslv
as he is now dong fer the esst and mid
die divisions, and IL population does
How TO US, he will not be to blame.