The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-11-03

y.rprS. Mss. Oct. IA. 1870

Fditor Clarion The undersifned, Seere-
tarv of the Carroll County Immigration
society. was Instructed at its last meeting
TO omen a correspondence with other SINH
lar societies ia this State for the purpose eff
enabling tits society to adopt come meas
ure by concert of action to procure labor in
the state for next year. We all feel the
need OF immediate action on this question
and this society desires to get the co-opera-
tive influence of other societies in the State
to that end, that is to supply the demand
for labor.
To further the plan, and devise ways and
means as soon as possible to effect the OBJ
iect in view I ask through your valuable
pape- that all similar societies in the State
would send one or more delegates to meet
at Walden. IL O'Clock A. NJ, first Saturday
in November next. / would suggest a
later day, but the time is rapidly approach
ing when we must act or it will be too
late. A committee appointed by cur socie-
ty to investigate the subject of the best
kind ofiabor to be introduced, have report
ed the Chinese as the most suitable for the
cultivation of cotton, and think that our
society will make an effort to introduce it
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ties would join together and elect one or
more agents to go for the labor (for Chi
nese, say to Sacramento City that it would
greatly tighten the burthen of expenses to
all. We hope that each society approving
of the suggestion will at once have a call
meeting, if it be too late for their regular
meeting, and send delegates, when We can
explain in full our views in the premises
and have theirs,
will take the responsibility to say that
all delegates will be well cared for whilst
with us. and that their stay here shall cost
them nothing.
Yours truly.
S.N. ELY,
Sec'y. Carroll County Immigration Society.
REMARKS.
With pleasure, we have published the
foregoing communication, regretting that
it did not come to hand in time for an
earlier insertion The day named for a
general Convention at Walden to promote
immigration, is too nigh at hand to secure
large attendance still the initial pro-
ceeding may be instituted for larger
meeting in future. We have no doubt
but the Chinese laborer will answer all
the demands of the cotton culture as
suggested by the Secretary of the Carroll
County Association. His industry, pa
tience, tenacity of purpose, and above all
his entire adaptibility to the Southern
climate, as shown by the experiments
which have been made in Cuba and in
more Southern ATTITUDES in the cultivation
of sugar, settle that point. But except
in the swamp, or malarious river bottom
regions of the Southern States, the opin-
ion will not hold good that the Chinese
are better fitted for the production of
that staple than any other class. In the
uplands, Germans, Scotch, Irish, and
English-and even immigrants from the
coolest regions of Scandinavia, can enjoy
health, and become successful producers
of our chief staple.
In the competition which has been
created in the States and Territories of
the West and the start they have made
in turning foreign immigration in that
direction, and the means their authorities
are employing to maintain the advantage
thus secured, the difficulty with us is to
procure the best description of settlers
intelligent, thrifty, persons who have
come from the Old World to build up
their fortunes in the New 1t is certain
that this pressing need of population which
is attested by our abundance of unem-
ployed lands that were once cultivated,
cannot be supplied by Transporting the
refuse of Northern cities, second class
persons who have lost employment in the
rural districts and have drifted back upon
the great centres of population to make a
living by chance. We must initiate the
example which has been set by the people
of other States that have become miracles
of growth in population and rapid devel-
opment Societies must send their agents
abroad to make known the marvellous
advantages of our soil and climate and
the certain remuneration which rewards
labor, and though the road to success
will be difficult at first, it will soon be-
come smooth and easy. Every success
full immigrant will himself become an
efficient agent of immigrstion
WAKED UP.-The Louisville Courier
Journal, of October the 10Th, has a pow
erful article, deprecatinp sstbe folly" of