The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-06-03

quite simple, and shows tho, marks of
practical minds. 1E 1Eqontemri,ates the
formation ofS"Cbunfyi Iand rmmiera.
tion Societics" throughoutssthe State,
TO 10 formediby subscriptions Of land
rs stock, appraised at it's, TAX syalua-
tion; the. land to bo divided into farms
OF conybnient sizes, alternate farms to
be givon FREQ absolutely to immigrants
who will occupy and cultivate them
for ten years, and the farms retained
10 be leased Or sold at prices which,
rs tho tide of Immigration comes in,
are expected to make the enterprise
pccuniarily profitable and to return
great dividends. The scheme also
provides for tho establishment of q
representative central board to sit ut
Charleston, made up Of delegates
from each local society, to take meas.
ures TO induce immigrants to come
this way, to receive and caro- for them
while here, to givo them entiro frce.
dom OF choice to push ON to Califor
MIA or tho Northwest if they so
choose, and TO distribute those who
elect TO remain among the free farms
which are opened 10 them in South
Carolina. Intimately allied with this
is tho plan TO make tho coming OF I'M
migrants possible, by building fleet
OF four steamers to run between
Charleston aud somo European port,
and while bringing passengers on their
westward trips to carry cotton back
with them. and SO begin tho emanci
patton Of tho South from the tribute
lit pays to New York on both its i'm,
port and export trade. Other reports
were made looking TO tho establish.
mcnt of local cotton factories and
other improvements Of tho resources
Of tho South, but these wcro received
with less enthusiasm, many Of the
planters firmly believing that manu-,
Pictures arc curse to the community
which engages in them, and that tho
only true course for this State and its
ncighbors is to stick to agriculture
alone. Thus tho great topic Of tho
Convention was tho Immigration
schemes offered, and tho project 70,
establishing direct trade as making
immigration possible"
Many obstacles to the immigration
schemes were proposed, and canvassed
Among the chief Of these wcro the
mutual prcjudiccs of tho planter and
tho immigrant, which must DO over.
oomc-of the immigrant in thinking
that tho planter only wanted some
ono to talSo tho place Of his former
slavc-of tho planter in being unwil.
ling TO conccde liberal allowances OF
rations and othor personal comforts
Tho low ratio of labor was also urged
as an obstaclc-and whatever might
be tho inducement, tho low country
planter was hopeless Of any benefit
from this source, in his hot, malarious
climate.
Amid a host Of croakcrs according
to tho writer, the truo key voto OF
Yankoo energy, and enterprise, OK,
pressed in blunt Yankee phrase was
struck by Mr.. II. b. Truo, formerly
of Now York, now hailing from Geor.
gia. Said ho, "What you wants mer
with little capital of their own, who
will put it into tho land, and then
identify themselves with tho soil. i
Northern man comes down hero tc
look at tho country, as hundreds nre
doing ovory month, get him to settle
on your land. If he has $500 got il
away from him, invested in your land
and then he will stick, and whatever
State no comos from he will bo a
Georgian or South Carolinian in less
than a year. If his money is here
his heart will be here, and his politics
will be hore. Tho Southern men smii.
cd at this rs Yaukccism, but not q
few Of them recognized the essence OF
truth in it after all. "This is tenn.
porary crisis" continued this plain.
spoken Yankee. Labor is demoral-
lied. There isn't enough of it, and
what there is isn't trustworthy.
can SEQ that rs we'll us you can. A
man with big plantation can't make
enough, stealage and everything else
thrown in, to fcnoo his land. But
this is not going to last. Capital can
control labor in tho end. Tho fact is
that whcro n Northern farmer gets
rich, he does it not SO much by farm.
ing as by increasing tho value of his
land, bringing it to the highest state
OF cultivation drawing other people
around him, building up a pleasant
neighborhood, getting schools and
churches about, and SO on, till he. is O
wealthy man. 1t can bo dono here
just as we'll rs there; and with such
land as you have here, and Iabor rs
cheap IA it is here, we can beat the
Northern man two to, one. That's a
fact. have little pieco of land in
Georgia, and I toll you right hero l
mean to bring it up to nay standard or
diei in the attempt. put my capitnl
and my own muscle right into it, and
if capital can't control labor I'll fnd
out the reason why" '"-
What we want at tho South is both
more labor and moro ihonied capital
This is universally conceded. Labor
is inefficient; and money is wanting.
That black labor is unreliable is what
we might expect under the circum-
stances. 1t arisesa much from.nrevii
oas condition and outside influences,
as. anything in race" IT. Is about as
rSrNN a. L.