The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-13
Climate AMI Immigration.

The South has an advantage over other
sections of the Union which no misgoyern-
ment can neutraliZc-a benignant eli
mate Elsewhere winter arrests the opera
rations OF the working man. The mechanic
is housed or suffers terribly. The mill-wheel
is frozen by the stream upon which its revo-
lutions depend. The tields are locked up by
frost or imbedded in thick pail OF snow.
'.The ruler of the inverted year. paralyzes
industry by the touch of his icy sceptre.
But all the while with us, the mellow earth,
the kindly heavens, the unclaimed cNulting
streams, minister to the wants OF men. a
few brisk winds, q few frosty mornings, Il
few sharp bracing days, are all the rigors OF
winter that we know-if rigors he indeed
the name for that salutary discipline which
cirds tho loins and tightens the sinews for
the laborS OF the advancing year. The con-
trast ouly serves TO lend charm to the gra-
cious season, which, like the Scandinavian
mother, tosses her nursing into the snow
wreath only that she may take him back,
thrilling and all aglow, to the warmth and
refreshmcnt of her bounteouS breast. Thank
God! we have something that Congress cam
not reconstruct, that q motley Legls-
lature with its musky eXhalations cannot be-
cloud or bcfoul, that Scott, Kimpton & Co.
cannot 'bull' up or 'bear' down-some-
| tb;,,r ;nol;onobly our own
.sThese days so sweet. so calm. so bright
The bridal of the earth and sky"
This advantage which we have enjoyed
without realizing how great it is, is begin
ming to exercise its just influence, and will
contribute more and more, in the years to
come, toward our prosperity. First the
spoils of war invited adventurers, who flock
ed Southwark, like Guzzartls, to feed upon
the dead carcass Of slavery. OF these OBJ
scene birds we have had more than our share.
Then came invalids, like Mr.. Derby and Mr..
Weed, in quest OF health. Then came SELF
indulgent refopners, like Mrs Stowe, athirst
for oranges. Then came capitalists covet-
Gus of cotton. Soon We shall have an I'M
portant and numerous addition to our popu-
laton in the immigration OF laborinS men
from.Europc. Already many OF the English
artisans are petitioning the government tor
the use of the national vessels to transport
them to the tropical colonies oI the Empire.
But these Islands cannot compete with
continent. When once the tide has fairly
set in, it will seek America. And in all
America there are no fields so inviting as
those whose white fleece have clothed the
nakedness of the world-no cline so pro-
pitious as that which 'warms in thesun and
''refreshes in the breeze" above us and around
us, and makes the dreariest season of our
year the bland harbinger Of spring.
Mr.. Cornell, OF Ithaca, New York, has
recently imported some English builders into
that city. OF these, one OF the most intelli-
gent has written several letters to the Lon
don Spectator, giving his impressions in re-
gard to this country. He finds the wages OF
labor higher here than in England, eyel rela-
lively, although the expense OF living is also
higher Food Is more abundant, bnt with
less variety from meal to meal and from
day to day. Clothing is coarSer. The ale
is scant and poor, and the whiskcy deadly.
But the great trouble is the climate. His
fellow workmen are obliged to betakc them
selves to some other employment than
their proper business during the Sc
we're months of winter. They become
glass-blowerS, wheelwrights, hunters, team
stcrs and the like And the result is that
the quantity and quality OF the work done
is sensibly affected, according to the old
saw, 'a jack of all trades is good atnone.'
The letters are very suggestive, and to us
very encouraging For we have more than
the physical advantages OF the North, and
in addition, enjoy the generous climate for
which the frost-bilten artisan is yearning.
The system OF slavery, which he was taught
10 regard as degradation OF labor, has
perishetl. The arts Of unprincipled men
who have subsisted upon :ocial disorder ere
losing their power Thus the main obsta-
clcs to immigration have disappeared or are
disappearing. We shall soon have fair
field for Industrial competition with the
Northern States. No fear for the result
We can offer to capitalist and laborer work
for every month in the year, from January
to December-gliding water wheels, when
the wheels of the North are locked with ice;
free rivers, when the rivers OF the North are
frozen; open roads and clear fields, when at
the North the whole country is one unbro-
ken drift of snow; winter balmier than
Northern spring. The Northern game OF
abolition is played out; that sentiment which
was capital has dissipate1 its resources; that
policy which made Mason's and DiXon's Line
| Chinese wall to the foreign immigrant has
| ovcrreached ITSELF And now the way
Southward is open, and the people and the
land invte
We shall have lahorerS from Europe be-
yond all question. And we Shall, as GER
tainly, draw them from the North and the
Northwest.
Wp bonnl that the resolution of inquiry