The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-15
IMMIGRATION TO THE SOUTH.

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the Consul General of the Swiss republic at
Washington city, begging his cooperation.
The Consul General answered the request by
examining the whole question from the theo-
retcal standpoint of certain class of Swiss
republicans who are educated as freemen aud
expect to be treated like refined gentlemen.
He says that although some OF the members
of the new immigration society are highly
respectable and prominent merchants and
politicians it is nevertheless possible that
their enterprise is only regarded as good
speculation. He quotes as an example a new
COLONY, lately established ut Goldsboro in
North Carolina. where the Swiss immigrants
were assigned the huts which had previously
been abandoned by negroes, who had left
them in going further SOUTH and he assures
the members of the Virginia association that
his countrymen will not leave their homes
and settle in Virginia without being COM
pletely assured of being properly received. 1t
they are not certain that there are no fevers
on the land offered to immigrants; that the
soil is useful for vineyards and orchards; that
il is cleared and fenced; that good house
stands upon every piece of five hundred acres,
or that houses can be built "without much
expense and trouble" the Consul declares
they certainly will not come to Virginia.
The old consul general of the Swiss repub-
lie is himself most excellent gentleman, but
in spite of his long sojourn in this country he
seems to know very little of the life of new
immigrants. So much is certain, at any rate,
that if his advice to foreigners had prevailed,
not three hundred immigrants would have
come to this country, instead of three hun
dred thousand and more who leave their
homes every year and try their chances in the
United States At the time of the first settle
ments in the West, there was nobody at all
who could answer any questions about fences
and fevers and the cheapness or difficulty of
building houses. And yet hundreds of thou
sands settled there, and among them large
proportion of Swiss. In spite of their re-
publican education (Which means in regard to
the poor who almost exclusively emigrate
from Switzerland), they had to struggle pre-
cisely as the former subjects of German
and French monarchs Until they had built
their log houses they had to live under the
roof of the armament; they had to clear their
own land and to split the rails with their own
hands by which their land was put under
fence. They had, in one word, to create
everything which the good old consul-general
would like to see entirely done before the i'm
migrants from Switzerland should start from
home. The negro cabins which were assigned
to the late Swiss immigrants at Goldsboro are
evidently better than no houses at all, and we
know that many Swiss immigrants in the
State of Illinois ut this very day live in cabins
which cannot be much excelled in size and
primitiveness by the average log cabins in
North Carolina. And yet some OF these i'm
migrants in Illinois of whom we speak have
been upwards of fifteen years in this country.
The life of the first settler is hard; it is
subject everywhere in the United States to
severe trials, of which suffering from inter-
mittent fevers is not the worst. From these
hardships no one is exempt, whether pre-
viously citizen of republic or the subj bjeot
of king. BY diligence, perseverance, energy
of character, and muscular and moral
strength, they are almost always overcome,
however. We concede that the sufferings of
the first settlers may be a little more acute
than in the new regions of the West. But it
is folly to believe that the preliminary work
of immigration societies can in any case
change new comers at once into well-to-do
farmers. The independence of the American
yeomanry is their own work, and in the
| West, as we'll as in the South, the new immi
grant must make himself free and rich ant
| independent by his own labor and endurance
| Only those who help themselves can expect tt
be helped by others.
MANHATTAN VERSUS TAMMANY.
| From the Syracuse Journal
The two Democratic foes have met face tt
| face in the Legislature Manhattan beard
|
| the war into Africa. The forces are moving
the smoke of battle begins to arise; th
leaders are dashing along the lines Lool
out for mutual slaughter of the heroes.
After weeks of agitation, we'll stirred VI
by the organ of the Manhattan Club, with it
columns of editorials calling for another New
York charter to take the place of the one in
troducedsin the Legislature by the Tamman,
Ring, charter which should be framed SO a
to usher in the era of political purity ant
transform the shoulder-bltters and ''re
peaters" of the metropolis into masculine
angels and enable the upright members o
the Manhattan Club-not Ring, of course no
to dispense justice, administer the laws a
they were never admin stored before, and d
all sorts of things which should convert New
York into garden of morality-after weeks
we say, light breaks upon the State.
And now, out of the throes of the Tam
many organ emerges the long g-heralded char
ter. It's godfather is John Morrissey, and it
godmother is Sam Tilden. The child wa
conveyed to the presence of the legislator
by Mr. Frear who urged the Importance o
adopting the founding without delay. Thi
founding has a long line of friends who ar
ready to acknowledge relationship. 1t mus
be admitted that they are quite miscellaneou
IN their characters; for sharp journalists
prize fighters, and political triclsters pres
its claims, and are ready, if need be- to fgh
and bleed in its cause.
Our readers will remember that the Tam
many Ring introduced a new charter some
what earlier in the session, which died of to
much mortality. Tammany never Will forge
that death-never There we're dark hint
that the Manhattan reformers had somethln
to do with its taking Off Now, what can
expected of the latter progeny 10 whlca MO-