The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-14
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ments as yell the come ion i'd hioh
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Sgo f,plan t1procute aceessio ions per-
manent settlers by the 10ndiion at llsodfs.
have concluded that Resintende led to c6El
vey the idea OF originality. I am glad,
however, to see that he does not claim
paternity. From Gen. Tockman,s pro.
positions on this subject, Il have no doubt
all others were taken; and in some re-
speots they are the best !. have seen.
His attempt to dispose of the PROPOSE
tions Of Mr.. A. Saohtleben on 'the.sub-
ject of immigration to the detriment Of
my plan, because he brought over a Ger
man peasant, who left him, is simply
puerile, and will not ask;space in your
columns to discuss. t'a.-
And now. Mr.. Editor, having said oil
[ think necessary in regard to the points
brought up by your correspondent, I
will beg little more indulgence, while I
briefly review the history Of immigration
as applied to the settlement Of the United
States. from the landing OF the first
colonists, under the auspices of the Eng
lish Government, up to the present time.
The first permanent settlement was com.
menced in May, 1907, at jamestown, on
the James River, in Virginia. The next
was New York; next Massachusetts; next
New Hampshire; next New Jersey; next
Delaware; next Maryland; next Connec-
ticut; next Rhode Island, and then came
North and South Carolina. The last
settled of the original thirteen States
GaorrYso in 1870 4
these settlements in regular rotation, to
show that there was then no prediction
for any particular locality; the colonists
made settlements indisoriminately all
over the lands claimed by the English
Government. After the United States
Government was established, there seems
to have been no marked change in this
respect until Monroe's administration
1917 to 1S25-when five new States were
admitted into the Union, viz: Alabama,
Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and Maine.
Then it was that the great question of
slavery, as applied to the settlement Of
the territories, shook the whole political
fabric of the country, and resulted in
the adoption of the Missouri compromise
line. From this date the tide Of immi-
grafton directed itself North and North
westward. The same inducements we're
held out by the Government to foreign
settlers to go to Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and afterwards to Florida and
Texas, as to Maine, Illinois, aud after
wards Indiana, California, and all the
new territories acquired in consequence
of the Mexican war. Government lands
were only one dollar per acre wherever
found. The question arises, why did
they not come South? Then tie negro
ards slaue and subordinate TO the aohite
man. It certainly must have been in
consequence of the presence of the
negro. Now the negro, by the aid
OF the scalawag and carpet-bagger,
is holding the white man under po.
litical snbordination. If the immi-
grant did not voluntarily come to the
South, while the former condition of
things existed, will he uoluntariiy come
now, with the present abnormal and God
forbidden condition? The answer, it
seems. is plain. ne must create a
diUersion to the South by using means nerer
heretofore resorted to by the people Of the
North. What this shall be, must be de-
termined by the assembled intellect and
experience of the whole South. have
suggested q plan; if there is any other
better suited to accomplish the ends,
may Heaven smile upon it, and may it
be adopted from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande.
One thing we should bear in mind,
and that is, that the area of our country
more than equal to all Europe and
Russia) is altogether in disproportion to
the numer of nhabitants-about 40, OOO,-
600. And that were the prices of lands
what it would be; were it not for the
large investments of capitalists in this
kind of property; and that if the labor
question, all over the United State, were
regulated by the laws of supply and de.
mand, strictly carried out, we would have
poor showing for our share of those
able to purchase lands.
e. B. TURNIPSEED.
OAK GROVE, 8. c., April IL, 1870.
MEETING OF THE ALUMNI OF CHARLES