The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-05-18
piled with laborers.

| plea with labOrere.
g., 1t is necessity that direct com
munication be established with some
German port by means of good steam
ers, commanded by officers speaking
the language. These steamers should
run to some southern port, as for
instant Charleston, VIII nee transpor.
tation could be directly with the
West. We are Informed that by this
route the rate Of travel would DO
cheaper by several dollars than by
any other.
4. Some European port should be
selected with which there is at present
no such communication, rs it would be
almost impossible to compete with
New York and Baltimore and their
principal agencies abroad.
0. The present condition Of our
country renders it absolutely inpossi-
BILE for emigrants to be induced to come
to this or any other Southern State MS
laborers. The price Of labor is much
too low. We cannot contend in this
respect with the Northern and West
orn States, where farm laborers of the
best class are paid as high as from
SIS to $50 per month, besides being
found. Moreover, it would be i'm
possible for them to exist on the fare
and in the manner in which our },lan-
| tation laborers arc sustained.
8. There exist great prcjudiccs in
the European mind against cmigra-
tion to tho South, produced by pub
lications in different European papers
in regard to this subject, which it is
of the greatest Importance to over
come.
7. TO accomplish this, We would
recommend the formation Of societies
throughout the town and counties of
this State and the South, in the inter.
est Of the emigrant. Every foreigner
should be brought into them. Their
annual reports should be forwarded
by the naturalizcd citizens to his
friends in the old world thus CARRYING
with them the testimony Of Il witness
known to them. These associations
may receive the inducemcnt from
the members of tho communities in
which they are formed, and transmit
them under the authority of such
societies as truthful and reliable
information for cmigrants.
.. Thcrc now exist two great routes
over whieh tho cnigrant to the West
passes to New York and Baltimore,
and cInig,a;ioa Has, in groat meas
uro, contributed to the b ildipg, of
! these cities T'here is room fer sill!
another between tho latter point and
the Gulf. If limo be established
over Charleston, and such route prove
cheaper and offer inducemcnts, be-
sides adding greatly to the prosperity
of the city and tho adjoining couhtry
from tho emigrant brought over by
each vessel, many will necessarily
settle in this and neighboring South
ern States, and in this way thoir popu.
lation will soon be increased by u
valuable addition.
These views nrc very hastily
! thrown out, the time allowed us being
toe short to prepare report which
should embrace any details. And in
complying with tho request of the
committees, we have only attempted
to draw attention to few prominent
facts, which, it appears to us, should
be considered in tho discussion Of
subject so dif6cult, and, at the samo
time, of such vital Importance to our
welfare.
Respectfully submitted,
81, ra +. Won SANrEN.
Chairman Delegation German So
ciety, Of South Carolina.
Signed by the Committee on Immi.
grafton, as follows:
j. p. THoMAs.
h II. 8. BoiNEsr.
j: J:CAmpsEN.
j.. Won SASrEn.
W. j., TngHlioLM.
The Committee Of Direct Trade, by
their chairman, Mir. Robert Mure,,
mado tho following report, which,
after being read, was, on motion of
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