The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-01-13
Immigration in the District of Newberry.

immigration in the District of Newberry.
Immigration in the District Of New
berry has reached gratifying height.
The number ofimmigrants for the month
of November was 33, for December 4S,
and if we include the 4G who came into
the district previous to the lst of Novem-
ber, the result will show the gratifying
number of 127 immigrants; in every re-
spect very good beginning for the first
year.
If the visible increase Of immigration
on t!le-ene hand, shows, that the society
in this place is succeeding in removing
farther and farther the prejudice, which
has hitherto been a~hindrance in the way
Of immigration to the Southern States,
the numerous applications Of farmers for
foreign laborers on the other hand prove,
that the former prosperity can be re-
stored only by an increasing supply of
immigrants and the working power
thereby introduced.
The immigrants who have come here
have rapidly accommodated themselves
to the new circumstances, and their per-
formances with very few exceptions, bave
fully met the demands upon them, so
that both parties, employers and labor
ers, have good reason to be content. 1t
is rot to be denied that the German i'm
migrant especially, when he chooses the
South for the founding of a new home.
has to give up more of the habits and
customs Of his old home, than if he were
to 60 to the Northern or Western States;
for, aside from the fact, that he finds
mere of his countrymen in the latter, the
usual food and manner Of life are more in
accordance with those Of his native coun-
try, than they are in the South. If the
Southern farmer wishes to obtain the
proper advantage from the immigrant,
it is absolutely necessary, that he make
a few concessions, and that he do not
consider him, like the negro, merely a
rough working power. There must be
Weddings on both sides. TIE immigrant
must especially seek to adapt himself to
the new manner of life as rapidly, as pos.
sible, and the native must cndeavor to
make this task rs easily as possible to
him. Only in this way can the just ad-
vantages of immigration be obtained in
the shortest possible time.
The immigrants, who have been f','
some length of time in the South, aud
then prefer to 90 to the North or West,
(>uch instances have not occurred in our
District, but they have in otherS,) give,
a.; their reasons for so doing, rare! J hard
work or unfriendly treatment, but most
r., that they could not become accus-
toned to the food given to teen, ard
that they were assigned half ruiac; ne
gro-hu,s as dwellings. Wheo these two
causes of the discomfort OF Immigrants
exist, they can in my opinion easily be
removed The cost ofsiurniSEirg immi-
grants with good dwellings would not be
great, as houses are usually built at the
South and as to food, it is fresh meat
and coffee, to y hich they have been &C
customrd from youth; do not deprive
: them of these all at "ncc, but let them
accustou. themselves gradually 10 the
! prevalent food and manner Of life, and
YOU will be richly rewarded for the slight
extra expense at first, by the content,
greater activity and working power Of
your laborcrs.
The undersigned will always endeavor
to impress upon the immigrants the ab-
solute necessity and great benefit to them
selves of leaving off many of their earlier
habits and customs, and Of accommo'
dating themselves as rapidly as possible
to the manner of lie here prevalent; and
if farmers will add their endeavors, in
the manner indicated, | am fully con-
vinced, that this section will soon richly
reap the full advantages from immigra'
tion, which, BY proper management can
be gained thcrefrom.
F. W. BRUGGEMANN,
Agent of the Newberry immigration
Society.