Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-10-23
SUUIHkkN alMMIGkA lion.

8 report Of the Committee on Southern id
migration, made to the Commercial Con
vsntiol recently 10 session at Louisville
b Kentucky:
, James V. Massey, of Va, chairman OIL
the Committee on Immigration, submitted
! a report which Was adopted after some
discussion. The following il d synopsis
: Of the report. The report was pfepar,d
to he presented to the Louisville Cnnve,,-
,iou by the Committee on Immigration
raised by the Memphis Convention Of
May 18Th, 1869. The report says that
the population Of the whole country Was
equally divided between the N"rth aud
the S'uth +; the increase Of the two SEC
tons in population may be taken the
same. according to the census of 1860 -
The population of the two sectinns-
North 1860, 1872; Soulh l2.t48, lz9
This shows that of the immigrants and
heir d"sce' da"ts. who had come into the
country during the seventy years from
l79O to 1850, AID were then living.
',S2l.O33 m"re had settled in,the North
Than had settled III 'he Snutb. ;
According to estimates made, every
foreign Immigrant WHO settles in the
country adds to the national. wealth
SloOO, To he clearly within the limits.
your committee will assume it to BE- $500
per head The calculation is ~impl.-
5OOx7,32l 035 EQUALS 1850 SIG 500 The
Industrial capital IF tn" Nortr over aud
above the So"th, from imm'gration alone.
has thus been increased 10y this enormous
sum The North his outstripp-d the
oruth IN the struggle for material wealth.
the ct Ject OF your committee is to advise
the South to participate IN the advauta-
g+s Vt immigration. Most, IT, not all the
southern States since the late war. have
adopted measures for the encourapemept
OF foreign immigration. These, measures
have not bern attended with much .euc.
The immigrating class IF Europe
Is wholly uniformed in regard to the
States. and from ignorsnce and
sort OF misinformstion, are greatly
against them. This ienor.
must be dispelled and their or. in.
dices removed. THIS obstacle should be {
rem"ved- AL impression prevails thai the .
climate OF the South is unsuitrd to the I
man. Europe has heard of the I
parallel of SO degrees 30 minutes AS a i
dividing line between black and white u
aoor In America. Spain, Italy. Barbary, a
Egypt aud Asia Minor, which lie south t
hat lioe and are within the same par b
''le's OF latitude which include the South II
'rn States, are Inhabited by races having Il
AIMED or black skins. From this it is p
! ferred that the climate OF the Southern c
states Is unsuited to the Teuton.
80 long as these hurtful prrjudices OK.
the em'grating stream of Germans. o
'wedes. N~orwegiaDs, Cretans and Danes b
Will never flow into the Southern States e!
DC removal Of these prejudices Can best 5
e accomplished by the uuited efforts ,be Il
Ian contemplatrs. State organizations Mr te
ne encouragement Of immigration. The
propose that this convention
ppolnt a general agent of immigration m
lat the States be requested to appropri. pr
te a sum. to be placed in the hands of RI
he general agent, TO be used in prepar 50
x, publishing, trAnslating. aud circulst. pa
X gratultous'y among the emigratinp tn
asses q report showing the physical vi
of the States adopting this ST
resources, the special
lvantages which they offer the emigrant, /.
ID all other necessary iuformation.-" '
hese mars should show the pavigsble ca
reams and canals and railways, and XII
her artificial improvements !; tho chief va
dustries of the cooperative States, that ="
q emigrant may tell The chief products oh
each State. and comprehend the geo see
'aphlcal limits of the grand staples. and SCI
lowing these he could select that portion
the couotry in which he would prefer
dwell. The agent should be allowed a q
de discretion in disbursements of the "a!
nds as soon as immigration begins from no!
'rope into the South. All o. the lead ro'
3 Southern port. have regular lines of OF
an"rs with various ports of Europe. rno
All OF these ports have now domestic orr
'duce en"ugh to furnish q mo, thlv. if WI
t a weekly line of steamers with an Fol
Ward cargo. We're a stream Of emf per
turned to their wbarves.. there Pou
'uld be freight both ways, whereby the
nth would be relieved Of the necessity !
paying tor empty ships to come and sea
'ry "f their produce. To hasten this tate
= each State should authorize the gen whe
! agent Of emigration to correspond The
o the various companies which have pow