New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-17

nockets and say the South can never 90 any
thing without Northern capital Men OF the
South. no country ever became strong and
great on the money OF absentee capitalists.
Our kings of the railroad end the spindle are
poyerless to give you substantial AID. What
do Won want with railroads without freight !
What good will spindles do you unless you can
supply spinners and make them regular in their
work. thrifty in their habits cheerful, tenn
pcrate and neatl First of ALL you must make
living cheap for the mechanic, and not force
him 10 eat Minnesota wheat, Ohio cheese, and
potatoes from Maine; to till his garden with
spade hammered in Massachusetts, and feed
his chickens with scrap-cake from cinnati.
Then if you would attract You must set mp
sucb things as catch the Northern eye-the
painted school-house, the tapering spire, the
wide arching bridge, the culvert OF hammered
stone, the solid road, the whitewashed fence,
the evergreen hedge, the cottage nesting under
the oaks, the villa smiling from the hilltop
You may say that these cost money, and that
it is the want of money which drives y0u 10
sell your land There is force in the objec-
tion, but in real estate economy half is better
than the whole The average price of lands
described would raise them to fifty dollars
Ten dollars to the acre will make many OF the
improvements which accompany high civili-
cation, and attract the most enlightened clli-
zens. Even the disposition and the intention
to make such improvements often decide the
settler az much as the finished work. Through
out the South there is great miscOnception az
TO the ideal of the best immigrant. A cotton
grower in SuDhOwcr County, rich, but mala-
rious part of Mississippi, offers to advance the
money necessary to bring to his plantation an
industrious Northern family He wants cotton
pickers, and for three or four months each
Fall promises wages of from 50 TO 80
a day. The true interests of the South are
not to be advanced by a man who Will be SO
inconsidemte as, for So a day, to exile his fam
ly from church bells and shaven lawns, from
schools and running streams and bracing air.
Suppose he can earn 81 a day more than at
the North, will $500 year pay any man for
having a dumb chill every other day, and see
Sm the last vestige of roseeaf fade from the
cheeks of his babies 7
Without arguing more at length orr views
may be pressed into three or four short articles
of advice.
I. The South needs above all things an IN
fux of the best people, of families who Will
not settle in swamp or in a wilderness, who
want schools, churches, bridges, and turnpikes,
who are not content with day wages, or igno-
rant of the value of things offered for sale.
g. People having these tastes like to DC
neighbors, and will not go in groups unless
large tract can be obtained.
g. The South abOunds in soils, climates, and
scenery exactly adapted to be the home of the
best British blood that ever crossed the ocean.
Virginia il by nature the Empire State of this
Rcpublic. and if she fails to win and retain
that position it will be because her sons are
unskilled in the noble arts that "make nations
"great and keep them So"