The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-21
Tho subject OF Immigrstion-Ths Ro-
PORT Adopted in the, Loaisvnle Com

Tho Subject OF Immigration-Ths Ro.
port Adopted in the louisville Con-
vontion. e. ns
The following was the report on this
subject adopted in the Louisville Con.
vention. We invite dttention to the
suggestions made:
"The population of the whole country
was. according to the first census in
1870, nearly equally divided between the
North and the South. According to the
census OF 1860. the population of tue two
sections was: North. 19.369, 1872; South,
l2,O48, l49. This shows that of the emf
grants and their descendants who had
come into the country during the seven
ty years from 1890 to 1860, and we're
then living, 1891. .033 more had settled
In the North than had settled in the
South. According to estimates made,
every foreign immigrant who settles in
the country adds 1,500 to the national
wealth; but, to be clearly within The
limits, your committee will assume it to
be $500 per head. The industrial capital
OF the North over and above the South,
from immigration alone, has thus been
increased by this enormous sum. The
North has outstripped the South in the
struggle for mineral wealth. The object
OF your com mittee is to devise means
which may enable the South to partici-
pate In the advantages of immigration.
Most, it not all, the Southern States,
since the war, have adopted measures for
the encouragement of foreign immigra-
ton. Those measures have not been at
tended with much success. The emigrat-
ing class OF Europe is wholly uninformed
with regard to the Southern States, aud
Is from ignorance, and, in some mea-
sure, misinformation, greatlyypreiudiced
against them. lgnornce must be dis
PEELED, and the prejudices removed and
the prejudices against the Southern
States apply with equal force to all.
This obstacle should be removed. An
impression prevails that the climate of
the South is unsuited to the white man.
Europe has heard Of the parallel Of 36
degrees and 30 minutes as O dividing line
between black and white labor in Ameri-
ca. Spain, Italy, Barbary, Egypt and
Asia Minor, which lie South of this line.
and are within the same parallels of lati.
tude which include the Southern States.
are inhabited by races having tanned or
black skins. From Shis it is inferred
that the climate of the Southern States
ls unsuited to the Teuton. So long as
these hurtful prejudices exist, the emf
grating stream Of Germans, Swedes,
Britons and Danes will
never flow into the Southern States.
The removal of these prejudices can best
be accomplished by united effort. The
plan contemplates State organizations
for the encouragement Of immigration.
The committee propose that this conven-
ton appoint general agent of immi-
grafton; that the States be requested to
appropriate sum, to be placed in the
hands of the general agent, to be used
in preparing, publishing, translating,
and circulating gratuitously among the
emigrating classes, q report showing the
physical geography of the States adopt
ing this plan, their individual resources,
the special advantages which they offer
the emigrant, and other necessary in
formation. In reference to coolie labor,
the committee said the importation of
Cinnamon and other Asiatic labor does
not require the means suggested in the
report. What could be accomplished by
State and private organizations?
The future may develop the necessity of
using the means in Asia now suggested
in the report; therefore,
Res0lued, First, that this convention
concur i'll the foregoing report; second,
that the great learning and deservedly
high reputation Mt home and abroad of
Commodore Matthew F. Maury emf
nentiy fit him for the discharge of the
duties hereinbefore designated, and that
this convention recommend him to the
several States for the post of general
agent of immigration; third, that this
convention earnestly recommends the
foregoing report to the various States
herein represented, and especially those
of the South and South west, for adop-
ton by their respective Legislatures;
fourth. that the President of this CON
vention forward to the President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House of
each of the said States copy of this re-
port and resolutions, for snch action as
to them may seem advisable.
HEART-RENDINa DEATH OF BR1DE.-
A very painful accident, resulting in
death, occurred near IIliopolis. Ill on