The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-12

the South would have absorbed q large share
of the emigration and enterprise which
poured into the Western States, and which
not only made that section the garden of the
world, but has given il the political control of
the whole country.
Emancipation suddenly changed the policy
as we'll as the requirements of Southern
civilization, and Notwithstanding it has
taken FIVE years of severe and painful disci-
pline to effect realization of the fact, the
delay has been salutary, and the transition
more healthy and permanent by reason of
the delay. The people have had an oppor-
tunity to study out the solution of the pro-
blem for themselves. They have been made
to appreciate the true dignity and mission of
labor, and to get rid of the false notions
which they previously entertained. They
see that the presence among them OF four
millions of people suddenly transformed
from slaves to freedmen, required CORE
spending change of social ideas. III not pro-
itably employed, the blacks would surely
become a dangerous social element, but if
they were so employed and speedily, they
could readily be made means of development
and wealth even greater than they were before
the war; Two things were necessary to effect
this. The blacks were to be encouraged to
adopt proprietary labor, and it was essential
that they should be subjected to sharp COM
petitions in order to prevent them from COM
bininQ to control. The first necessity involved
the leasing or sale of land to the negro in
small parcels, and the second the encourage
ment of white immigration.
Both necessities were resisted for long
time after peace was declared, and chiefly
from prejudice. But recently we note q very
decided change in that respect. The Southern
press generally invites emigration from the
North, as well as from Europe. Agents have
been sent from most Of the States to organize
European migration, and quite large num-
Der of communities have already arrived. A
convention is to be held at Charleston the Sd
of May to aid the movement to South Caro-
lima; several large colonies of Germans have
recently settled in Alabama, and a colony of
New Workers are also on their way there.
Fifty-three thousand emigrants, black and
white, have passed through Memphis within
the last FIVE months, destined for The South
west, of whom fifteen thousand were newly
arrived foreigners. North Carolina Virginia,
and Kentucky have each organized bureaus of
immigration which are actively at work, and
similar efforts are being made-and with
great success-to turn the tide towards
Alabama and Mississippi.
All this is but the beginning of the end. It
is destined to go on increasing until the South
shall be filed up with new element Of popu-
lation, which will introduce new ideas, bring
its vast extent of unoccupied lands under til
laee, and ultimately build up homogeneous
civilization upon the ruins of that false and
pernicious system which has hitherto been an
incubus upon the South, socially, politically,
and materially. The result will be that the
sectional animosity which has 80 long pre-
vailed will be gradually obliterated, and that
when the present generation shall have
passed away it will have disappeared alto
gether.