The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-21
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Saturday Morning May 81. 1870.


Saturday Morning. May III 81, 1870.
The .Non-Poiitioni'. In South caroiIna-.
Tho Late Conventions.
The Nation, . radical paper, says:
More encouraging is the non-pelitical
South Carolina news, which, indeed, is q
great deal better than most persons in
this Bection of the country have been
hoping for, and is absolutely good. It
is surprising, for example, to learn that
one small association working in New
berry District, fine country, with a
beautiful climate, and lying in the mid
die region--between the sand and the
hills-alone has introduced almost 500
European immigrants, Swedes wo take
them to be. for the gentleman. who gave
the account Of them went on to say,
that ssif you give Swedish laborer q
pecksof meal and three pounds of bacon
"a week. you may expect him to taber-
nacle with You only fora night" and he
added something to the effect that the
Swede is o free man, who comes to this
country to better his condition. and not
TO be q serf, aud who muat be treated
acaordingly. These remarks were made
nm q convention which sat for several
days in Charleston, and included dele
gates from Georgia as we'll as from all
parts OF South Carolina. Looking over
the report of the proceedings, we noted
an entire absence of the spirit but re-
Gently pervading the South Carolinian
mind-the spirit which demands, not
immigrants who desire to better them
:selves, but servile peasantry. It ap-
pears as If there were now genuine
wish to foster the sort OF immigration
IL
East, which has built up the States of
the West and made them the wonder of
the world; and on elaborate plan to
accomplish the desired result was sub
mitted to the convention, and, after in
telligent debate, adopted. The South
was always ready enough to hold conyen
tions, agricultural and other, and it is
hard, when we read the Charleston reso-
lutions, not to think of the gentlemen
who used regularly to meet and resolve
that Norfolk, Virginia, was designed by
God to be the greatest seaport on this
continent; but still the resolutions be-
fore us have o very busitess.like and
hopeful look. In brief, this is the gene
raj scheme: Landholders and other capi-
talists are to subscribe land, or money
with which to buy land, and this is to be
divided into farms, of which every other
one ls to be given to any respectable and
healthy man who will occupy it and i'm
prove it, holding it at the end of ten
years in fee simple, and, until the ten
years. term expires, under the sole con-
dition that lie shall not abandon it, but
shall cultivate it. Alternate sections the
association is to hold. Four freight and
emigrent steamers are to be built, and
every means is to be tried to induce emil
grants from Europe. whether bound for
South Carolina or for Oregon, to make
the journey via Charleston--a route
alleged to be cheaper than any other now
in existence. Chinese laborers-.of
whom, as cotton hands," glowing ac-
counts were given--are to be called into
the rice districts. The erection of cot
ton mills is to be encouraged, and
figures we're read, which seem reasona-
BILE. tending to show thata manufacturer
who should barely pay expenses in run
ming twenty frames in New England
could make $4,000 year by running
them in Georgia. Aninstance was given
OF o manufacturer who actually had done
both these things so lately as last year.
Our space forbids our giving further
details of the projected plan, but, as is
said above, it looks hopeful.