The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-25
Irassisration-The Advantages and Draw
a. basks 81 Oar Southern States.

Garden, the bulk Of the German element NOV
ing on ~ once TO the far West. and the Irish
element remaining mostly here and in other
cities Of the East. Considerable accessi0ns to
our population also continue to bs made from
European shipments to Quebec, Boston, Phia-
delphia, Baltimore, Charleston and New
Orleans. Al the same time, from the New
England States and the central Northern
States, even TO Illinois, and from our seaboard
Southern States down to Louisiana, there is a
steady stream Of emigration to the westwa I'd
Of young and vigorous native Americans
hopeful Of fortune or distinction, or both. in
some part Of all that vast region OF orr new
States and Territories west Of the Mississippi
to the Pacific ocean, from the British Posses
I sions north down to the plains Of Mexico.
Thus, since the suppression Of our late
Southern rebellion, from immigrants from
our older States and from Europe, the increase
in the population and wealth of Min.
nesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri
and Texas has been really astonishing.
Arkansas, with natural advantages Of soil,
| climate and productions, and cheap lands
| equal to any of these States, remains COM
paratively at standsdlI, because she is de-
| fcient in local railway facilities aud railway
connections with the great through lines to
| New York. The great increase Of the popula-
! ton Of Texas, with some accessions from
! Germany, is mainly due to immigrants from
| the older Southern States drawn to the "Lone
Star" by the attractions Of her cheap and fine
cotton and sugar lands and her splendid prairie
| ranges for the cheap raising Of thousands of
cattle, horses, dc. But, excepting Texas, the
heavy currents of emigration from the States
to the eastward and from Europe have set into
and are still setting into the new States and
| Territories of the Northwest this side the
| great plains, and beyond them in the new
mining Territories and States of Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming Colorado, Utah, New
Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and
California Even Dacotah, on the line of the
| Upper Missouri, is thriving, and Arizona, in
| spite Of the Apache Indians, is beginning TO
boast in her Territorial capital Of sewing
machines. Sunday schools, hoped skirts,
pianos, newspapers, billiard saloons and sherry
cobblers.
The gold and silver mines of these new
States and Territories tell tho story of the
tidal waves Of immigrants from the East which
are rapidly building up prosperous commu-
mites in deserts heretofore pronounced worth
less, il not absolutely uninhabitable. The
discovery Of these mines made the building Of
the Pacific Railroad work Of magic hardly
less wonderful than the miraculous achieve
| ments of the lamp Of Aladdin and the moving
| masses OF men, women and children to the
marvellous regions opened to the world by
that road remind us Of the migratory nations
in times past from Asia into Europe. And
still these masses Of moving nationalties are
drifting into those new gold and silver mines
and to the lands Of the Upper Mississippi and
| its tributaries, whose Astounding crops Of
wheat and corn and convenient railroads
make these lands more attractive to men with
families than the silver mountains of Nevada
or the gold gulches of Colorado
| But south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio
| river, from the Atlantic westward beyond the
Mississippi, there are the most inviting
regions on the Continent or in the world
to Europeans and Northern men in
search of good and cheap living for them
selves and comfortable homes for their
| childrea. Delaware and Northern Maryland,
| the whole of Virginia and West Virginia,
the elevated and wholesome western divisions
Of North and South Carolina, and the noun
! famous divisions of Northern Georgia and
Alabama, and the northern part of Mississippi,
| and tha ,yhola Of Tho f.,i tf,l Ctotoo IF T,nrao
see and Kentucky, offer cheap farms, slre
| crops and fair prices to the European or
Yankee settler; and they offer, too q eli
mate where the frosts of winter touch but
| lightly, and where the heats of summer are
| never so severe as under the boosted skies of
| italy. From North Carolina southwark along
the seacoast to Louisiana, and extending back
| hundred miles, more or less, we have belt
of low lands and sandy pine barrens, a region
sultry, swampy and malarious. But this belt
embraces the most famous corn cotton and
rice lands Of the Atlantic States. It's climate,
however which is really good for the African
race, is deadly to the European. That which
in the air is poison to the blood of the Euro
pean is nutriment to the African. Hence in
the course Of time these seaboard lowlands
will undoubtedly be chiefly occupied by the
| African and Chinaman, while the, more salu-
| brous districts we have described will bs al
most exclusively occupied by the white races.
! But why is it, with all the attractions we
have suggested, that these inviting districts
I Of the South, Astounding in the wealth of fer
| tile fields, forests, mines and never-faing
streams for water power, and possessing q
| genial and wholesome climate, and withal a
fair supply Of railway facilities-why is it
that the fair and fertile lands In these inviting
latitudes still go begging? How is it that
the great currents of emigration from Europe
and the North sweep by the South to the
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