The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-27
Fho County and Town OF Newberr,y-No. no.

To NORTHERN CAPITALISTS AND IMnr1-
GRANTS The question has been asked, and
is still asked every day, is there any security
for any Northern man or immigrant who
wishes to settle in the South, whether as a
planter, manufacturer, or day laborer? We
answer, emphatically, yes. To Judge from
the tone and tenor of articles as seen in
newspapers, Northern man or immigrant
might and would naturally suppose that the
Southern people were far more vicious than
the widest Camanche that ever roved over
the prairies of the West. He would think
that the capnibals, who sometimes visited
the island of Juan Fernandez in the days of
Robinson Crusoe, were, in comparison, :'as
gentle as any smoking dovo." Seven -eighths
OF these sensation pieces are gotten up by SEN
satious editors. who have less brains than
animal cunning; are all alive TO the circula-
ton of their paper, without any love of
country, but particularly intent to feather
their own nest by keeping up a constant ex-
element It is moral want of judgment,
honesty and truth. Therefore, it is down
right cant, jargon and stuff Our Northern
friends should recollect this is world of
sordid sins. OF shameless follies, of IN
sighted perversity. We admit the fact that
when party spirit (but we do not justify or
defend it) was hot with over-excitement,
that many, very many, things were highly
improper, and profoundly wrong in the ex-
treme; but We must remember similar
things have occurred at different ages in
the midst of political party excitement, and
moro particularly after bloody revolutions,
all over the world. Man is but man; and
he is the same to-day, with all the advance.
ment of science, that he was five thousand
years ago. The bitterness and malignancy
which characterized the election has died,
and is fast dying away. 1t was folly that
was monstrous, blindness we'll nigh unpar-
donable-for it was blindness which gave
Itself forth as insight, and held out reck-
less hand to guide the blind.
Any Northern man or European who
comes South will find the Southern people
generous, kind-hearted, disposed to encou-
rage not merely the introduction of capital,
but also the sentiments of capitalists among
them. Whenever any man, no matter
where he was born, settles in the South,
becomes identified with the interests of the
people, he is one of them. We heartily ac-
knowledge the Southern people do not want
loafers, adventurers, office-seekers. We
have enough of them already, God knows!
Not only of foreign, but of native manu-
faoture. This County, the South, wants
men OF energy, muscle and capital She
wants laborers, mechanics. capitalists no
matter from whore. She wants no plugs,
that we can say to such is "Get thee behind
us, Satan" We want men of worth and
stamina. We want men who expect and
desire to make profits out of the produce of
the Southern soil to come and live with and
among us; share our burdens as we'll as en-
Joy our profits. Those who assert that
Northern men are not safe in the South
under the administration of Grant state
what is untrue, and utter the vilest and
basest of falsehoods.
The people of the Northern States have
qualities that every honest Southern man
| respects and admires, to wit: their energy,
enterprise and perseverance. They are in
general public-spirited, and help very much
| to improve q country. That they have
grown rich off the products of Southern
labor is not their fault, but was caused by
our failure to appreciate our advantages and
our unwillingness to improve them. Not
only M infusion of Northern capital into
the South, but also an infusion of Northern
energy, enterprise and sagacity to under
stand their interests would be beneficial. A
few years, we think, will show that it is the
interest of the enterprising capitalists and
laborers, not only from the Northern States,
but from Europe, to make the South their
home. She possesses all the elements of
wealth, and only needs development to be-
come the richest and most powerful coun-
try on the globe. The healthfulness of the
climate is attested by all who have dispas-
sionately examined the subject. This coun-
try has undeveloped wealth in abundance.
1t needs and desires capital, labor and en-
terprise to develop this wealth, and the
people are not so unwise or profoundly
foolish as to reject or insult it because it
comes from the Northern States.
We want you, Northern and European
immigrants, to como amongst us; and we in
vite you because your presence will give a
busness-like vitality to the community in
general, sending its galvanic impulses to
every branch of productive industry The
poor will then be furnished with occupa-
tlons and means of subsistence; the farmer
| provided with near and readu rnarLot Cor