The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-05
rooncs,laed rom Third Paoe.]

CONCLUDED from Third Pa0e.]
In day. The West was competitor TOO power
rul to be suddenly vanquished, and the aSenoieS
abroad, coverpgas they do every to"A " iu
portance, would prevent the complete sueoess "
any movement that might DO conte"pia.eu ~
that direction, until the public sentmene Vi hu-
roma fastened upon the South as 1t was no" ai-
rected to other regions Of the country.
Mr. p Fl. True said he was Northern man py
h,rtn hut Georgian by adoption. He went 10
tne E,mnire State after the close OF the war, and
there he intended to stay If thegreat body OF the
people OF the North understood the exact condi'
tIon of atIairs here, thousands Of them would NIL
crate to the South and bring money and muscle
The South needed capital as well as labor. What
would planter with q thousand acres DO Win
ten Germans, fresh from the old country Inc
truth ls, the foreigner will do no good unless uea
to the soil-ldentlhed with it In purse anu per
son. don't care where man comes ironi'
said the speaker, get him to settle upon your
land. feeling that he has an Interest IN IT, anu ne
will become Georgian or South Oarolinlan IN
less than year. II his money is there. his heart
viii be there, and his politics will be there.
daughter AMI applause.] Self interest Will regu'.
late all these matters In the end, and your genu-
Inc Yankee won't be long IN becoming as genuine
a Georgian or South Carollnlan as II he were to
the manor born. Give us men from the North
with their money, and men from the South with
their intelligence, and we will work outthe prob
lem Of success without difficulty. I, for instance,
farm in Georgia, and dig phospkates In South
Carolina, and so all men, more or less, having
industry and little money, will diversity their
employments, and secome identified with Varl-
ous interests "Like clocks, one wheel another
must drive"
Affairs by diligence alone must thrive. "hen
the war closed laid down my arms and went TO
work; so did you. Why2 Becsuse we wanted to
make money. There are plenty OF chances to do
It here, but while you are orsring inducements
to foreigners, say word or TWO to your North
ern friends. When they know you they'll like you.
When they come, they'll stick; when they stick,
they'll help you fill your pockets and build up
your waste places.
Just now we are In crisis. Labor is demoral-
lied There isn't enough Of 1t. and what there Is,
Is not reliable. can see that. Everybody knows
It. And man who owns thousand acres with
ont the capital to run It is comparatively a poor
man. He can't make eenough-stealage aHd every
SaiHg else thrown into fence his land. Now
what you want Is to tie the men to the soil. Get
them here, and then give them such induce.
ments to stay that you can't drive em away.
(Laughter.l
Twas sent North from Georgia by the sgrlcultu-
raj association OF that State, to further its pro-
Iects In this same direction, and found that two
thirds Of the well.to-do farmers there are looking
towards the South. whyf Because with land
dear there. and cheap here, even with such labor
ss He can command, we can beat the Northern
man two to one That's fact. The truth Is,
farmer there, as general thing, don't make
money BY their work, but by increasing the value
or their lands. They bring them to the highest
degree OF cultivation, draw other people around
them, sen out build up .neighoorhoods. and 30,
step BY step, gather their wealth. It's the wayto
make money here, and there is no reason why,
with proper management, it may not be done
successfully. lhaye got . little piece Of land in
Georgia, and tell you here, Imean to bring 1t
up to my standard, or die In the attempt; and II
capital can't control labor, I'll find ont the req.
son Why. Laughter and applanse.l
Colonel Thomas stated that there was no want
Of harmony between the objects contemplated In
the report Of the Committee on immigration, and
those get forth by the gentlemen from Georgia
ana from Chester, OR. Brawley)
He Was thoroughly in sympathy with the senti-
ments that had been uttered, and believed In in
yiting Just such energy and enterprise to South
Oarolinsi as had been described. Our doors were
spen, and he wantedto see the stream Of human
ity flowing In, but We need help from abroad as
well as from home. We must send to Europe the
Macedonian cry -'UUme over anu neIp us. T"
Honorable g. W. Dud ey, Of Marlboro, spoke at
length on the subject, dwelling particularly, how.
ever, oa the Importance Of providing comforta-
BILE homes for emigrants, and dividing large
tracts into farms, which would be tributary to
common fortune. The invitation extended was
60 all, and In proportion to the intelligence which
accompanied the emigrant, would our general
capital tmeasurably increase, until the entire
State felt the influence OF new Life.
Rev. T. 8. Bsinest said that allusion had been
made TO the fact, that individual enterprise had
attempted and yet accomplished nothing IN this
work Of immigration. Such was not the case.
The gentleman making that statement had been
misinformed.- happen, said Mr.. Boinest, to be
familiar with the operations OF one Of these indi.
vidusl enterprises, and state TO this convention
shat upon small comparatively Insignificant
No have introduced into South Caroline almost
I've hundred European emlgrants. tApplausel
It win further appear from the records OF our liz:
tie society that nom sixty to seventy,nve per
cent. OF that number have proved to be good Ia.
borers, and remain among us. It is true there
have been failures by some worthless fellows but
there are other cases still In which the failure has
been more the fault Of the employer than Of
the laborer. II you give Swedish la-
borer peck Of meal and three pounds OF bacon
yeu may expect him to tabernacle with you only
for night. He regards himself as the inhabi-
tant Of free republic, and remembers the position
he occupied In the fstherlsnd. He came here to
better 1t, and when you degrade him to the level
OF your former slaves, 1t is but natural that the
impulses OF his nature should make him seek for
more congenial quarters. There have been in
stances In which the kindest treatment has prov.
ed OF no avail, but these are exceptional. My ex-
perience is, that when you treat the emigrant
like white man, secure home for him and his
family, and provide the means Of educating his
children, you have laid the foundation OF great
success.
In Newberry, for every three dollars Of capital
originally subscribed In our society. we have
brought one emigrant Is not that an encourage