The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-27
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ININIIGRATIoN-THE ADVANTAGES AND
DRAWBACKS OF OUR SOUTHERN

DRAWBACKS OF OUR SOUTHERN
STATES.
From the N. Y Herald.
From fifteen to twenty thousand European
immigrants per week, chiefly from Germany
and Ireland continue to be landed at Castle
Garden, the bulk of the German element
moving on at once to the far West, and the
Irish element remaining mostly here and in
other cities of the East. Considerable acces-
sions to our population also continue to be
made from European shipments to Quebec,
Boston, Philadelphia Baltimore, Charleston,
and New Orleans. At the same time, from
the New England States and the central
Northern States, even to Illinois, and from
our seaboard Southern States down to Lou
isiana there is steady stream of emigration
to the westward of young ndvigorous native
Americans hopeful Of fortune or distinction,
or both, in some part of all that vast region
of our new States and Territories west of the
Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, from the
British Possessions 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 Minnesota,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Texas
has been really astonishing Arkansas, with
natural advantages of soil, climate and pro-
duotions and cheap lands equal to any of
these States, remains comparatively at a
standstill, because she is deficient in local
railway facilities and railway connections
with the great through lines to New York
The great increase of the population 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 aud fine cot
ton and sugar lands and her splendid prairie
ranges for the cheap raising of thousands of
cattle, horses, etc. 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 Mon
tana, 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, hooped skirts,
pianos, newspapers, billiard saloons and sherry
cobblers.
The gold and silver mines of these new
States and Territories tell the story of the
tidal waves of immigrants from the East
which are rapidly building up prosperous
communities in deserts heretofore pronounced
worthless, if not absolutely uninhabitable.
The discovery of these mines made the build
ing of the Pacific Railroad a work of magic
hardly less wonderful than the miraculous
achievement 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 migra-
tory nations in times past from Asia into
Europe. And still these masses of moving
nationalities are drifting into those new gold
and silver mines and to the lands of the
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abounding crops of wheat and corn and con-
venient railroads make these lands more
attractive to nen with families than the Silver
mountains of Nevada or the gold gulches of
Colorado. .i a.
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 themselves and
comfortable homes sfor their children. Della
ware and Northern Maryland, the whole of
Virginia and West Virginia. the elevated and
wholesome western divisions of North and
South Carolina, and the mountainous divisions
of Northern Georgia and Alabama, and the
northern part of Mississippi, and the
whole of the fruitful States of Tennes-
see and Kentucky offer cheap farms, sure
crops, and fair prices to the European or
climate where the frosts of winter touch but
lightly, and where the heats of summer are
never so severe as under the boasted 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, region
sultry, swampy, and malarious But this belt
embraces the most famous corn, cotton, and
rice lands of the Atlantic States Its 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.
brious districts we have described will be
almost exclusively occupied by the white
races.
But why is it, with all the attractions we
have suggested, that these inviting districts
of the South, abounding in the wealth of fer.
tile fields, forests, mines, and neyer-failinp
streams of water power, and possessing o
genial and wholesome climate, and withal q
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
far West? The Western gold and silver
mines do not wholly answer these questions
The unsettled and still repelling condition OF
Southern society, as between whites and
blacks, late masters and late slaves, ex-rebels
and Unionists, native Southern politicians anG
Northern carpet-baggers, is the explanation
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