The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-23
An Urgent Need.

It has been roughly computed that each
immigrant arriving in this country. is an
addition Of thousand dollars in means
and muscle to the resources of the State in
which he settles. All such estimates must
OF course be only approxlmative, as based
upon partial and variable data. Yet grant
ing that so low figure is tolerably exact
it will show how immense a proht the
North and West have derived from this
source alone.
Mr.. Seaman computes the increase 10 the
nopulation of the Union, from foreign parts,
during the ten years embraced between
June l, lS40, and June l, 1850, as l, $40. 600.
This increase would represent an addition OF
nearly two thousand millions to the wealth OF
the republic. Nor would the amoant be Sc
riously abated by striking out the 100000
inhabitants added to the census by the ac-
uuistion of Texas, California and New
Mexico.
The immense proportion OF immigrants
has been appropriated by the Northern and
Western States To those regions COM
mercial agents, enterprising capitalists, and
bureaus and commissioners OF immigration
have invited the foreigner. In the mean
time the South remained satisfied with its
hereditary influence in the General Govern
ment, its sparse population and its patri-
archal system oflabor. Nor has there been any
other response than an occasional news
paper article or naughty silence when the
most atrocious scandals were instilled into
the laboring classes of England and the
Continent.
1t is a fact we'll known to our German
f,llow-citizens that for many years past the
minds OF their countrymen were very gene
rally poisoned against us. And multitudes,
to-day, although they have been in cores
pendence with their kindred at the South,
are incredulouS when assured that poor
German coming to the warm side OF the
national line is not at once thrust into a
state of slavery.
OF course this delusion is drifting away
under the new regime. But the accounts
OF Southern outrages, which that sensational
quack, Mr. Drake, is manufacturing, nre de-
Yised for the purpose of producing the same
effect as the antiquated libels about immigrant
slavery. Let the fears of the peaceful foreigner
who seeks transatlantic home bc excited;
let him apprehend that the South Is III
chronic state OF turbulence and bloodshed;
warn him that s'the unreconst.ucted rebels
are hopeful OF reducing the laboring classes
to slavery; and he will sheer away from our
borders, preierring to cast his lot in more
quiet, ifless genial cline l. is easy to see
how strong are the motives, both political
and financial, which stimulate tie lyin. in
ventions Of the Radical ring in ashington,
and their salaried and plundering abettors
in the Southern States. Were the facts re-
latinr to our social state and our material
resources made known IN Europe, there
would at once be diversion of that mighty
tide ofiife which has enriched the North
and West.
1t is, therefore, with high anticipatlons
that we prepare to welcome the convention
appointed to assemble in our city on the
| Sd of May The encouragement OF immgra-
tion is one OF the most prominent themes
that will engage the attention OF that body
Ioca. societies, like that over which Mr..
Boinest presides, have already inaugurated
the movement. Other States are actively
represented by agents in Europe The
Southern press has spoken. Foreign colo
nies already begin to arrive. The bureaus of
immigration in North Carolina, Virginia and
Kentucky, are already reaping the first
fruits OF their toll in this field. The ad-
vance guards of the Saxon race begin to
appear in Texas, in Alabama, in South Caro-
lima. Within the last five months fifteen
thousand newly arrived foreigners passed
through Memphis. And now is the time
for the merchants and planters OF South
Carolina to inaugurate such measures i'll
this department, as shall replenish our
sparse population, as shall bring under
culture our unoccupied lands, as shall re-
olenish our exhausted treasury-such meas
ures, in short, as our exigencies and our
fame conspire to demand.
For this end mere resolutions will not suf-
flee. We need organization, liberality, sa-
gacity, and, above all, work!