Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-09
OUR ALABAMA CORRESPONDENCE.
The Immiaratioh Convention --Crops---What
the C~onVentionists from Abroad inousnt
of Memphis, ETC., Etc.
MonraomEnr. A., JUNG 3, 1s00.

AlONIlnOh Ell IL In ooAAS =
Editors Memphis Appeal: Don't you
want a correspondent who can please
everybody and his wife, who is high IN
the confidence of Louis Napoleon ana
Queen Victoria; who is the seventh son OF
a seventh son. and who can foretell fuUure
events better than ex-Premier SewardY
or course Won do, and so | viii go ahead
without future apology. We have Deen
here for several days, in the very sight oil
the dome under which Southern orators
once warmed up the blood of the nation,
but which now re-echoes onlythe squeaky
voices of the carpet-bag usurper and his
dusky ally. During the last few days,
though, even their voices were rushed by
the Southern watchword of immigration,
and this has been the prevailing topic OF
conversation and debate during the SEES
sion of the Convention, which has just
closed it's labors here. 1t was well at
tended by representatives-men from all
parts of the country-and / was truly de-
lighted to see the people at last wake up
to this most important of all Southern in
terests. AS a matter of course, the Con-
yeption could moi have been complete
without the presence of our friend Col. Il.
Crandall, who was in attendance and who
addressed the people on seVara! OCCASIONS
in his accustomed enthusiastic and con-
yincing manner. His plan is at once so
simple. so honest and so eficacious, that
nobody can listen to him without be-
coming a convert, and / was much amused
TO see some of our old fOgies give
mn their antiQuated ideas N become
C~randallites almost in the twlnkInS OF
an eve. This is as it should be, for only
in quick action and by the united adop-
| ton of some sensible plan or other, can
the oppressed land holders of the South
| expect relief. Our land, which is now our
| only capital, is lying around loose n al
most unknown, unproductive under the
present system, and, in fact, of but little
| use to ANYBODY bat the Tax Collector.
| Col. Crandall proposes to collect all TINS
| unprOductive capital, and by a most ex-
/ celient system of his own, bring 1t to the
\ notice of the landless in our own country
and in Europe, and give it at once a hXed
marketable value in the commercial marts
of the world. But enough upon this sub
we returned highly pleased with oul
visit to Memphis, its wide and beautiful
streets, its fine and New Yorkish build
ings, its elegant hotels, and the spirit OF
progress that seemed TO prevail there-
| abouts. We had truly q pleasant time OF
it, and the hospitality and attention
shown to us stragglers by your citizens,
will be long " to memory dear
Returning we stopped at Corinth at thai
most excellent earayansary the "Scruggs
House" and inspected the Improvements
going on in that memorable city OF battles
/ was much interested in the operations OF
MckinneY's new shOefaetory, where L saw
male and female operatives from the
native town of Henry Wilson, United
States Senator, (the future Patron Saint
of the Crispins), aiding their southern
brother in the great work of industrial
independence. Next morning We were
invited to join an excursion train, stopped
at Huntsville. where, by an ingenious
process, new rails are made out OF OLD
ones. We examined some of the mended
rails which had been upon the track
for over eight months, and found
them as good as new ones. Pres
ident Wicks deserves much cred
it for the erection of this machinery,
which must cause an immense saving &c
the Company, as formerly breken rails
had TO he sent all the way to Chattanooga
to he mended. A few miles east of Corintt
Mr.. Jackson, the roadmaster, has estab'
lished a fine fruit and stock farm, which
deserves a special notice, as it shows what
can be done by an industrious, economl
cal and ~wide-awake man in the South
with a small capital. 1 am wrong when
saw capital, for it was all lone with the
savings of a salary of eighteen hundred
dollars. II would be impossible to do this
anywhere else than in our own abused
and decried South. The line oftheA Sem
phis and Charleston Railroad sse:
through a country which offers superior
advantages to the immigrant from abroad
and we sincerely hope that the laudablt
efforts of Maj. Wicks in this behalf vii
be met with the utmost success. These roll
ing lands are well adapted to the peculia,
agriculturali industries ofthe Germans, anC
If the Major will settle along the vari
Gus points Of the road some fami
lies Of that nationality, and induce then
to remain, and draw around them Others
| doubt not but that the road viii soon b
dotted with villages, like the line of tn
Illinois Central Road, and others in tn
West. When the people in the West shall
have foundOut that they are perfectly SAT-
and welcome among us, and that they cal
sell their lands at a high price, and pur
chase better lands here at a low price, the!
will surely come. When they understand
that they can raise cotton at % cents
pound upon ten dollar land, instead of hay
at i cent a pound upon hundred dolla
land, and that here you are not buried il
Ice and snow during six months of tn,
wear, they viii surely come. And wheI
they find out that in the mOdesty and gen
erosity of our hearts We SEND strangers Il
Congress, and give them all the fat offices
after a residence of twelve hours anon!
us. now wont they come sure enough?
Truly yours, G..