New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-22

tune. We win venture to assert, without
fear of successful contradiction, that no
State in the Union offers more substantial
inducements to the industrious imml-
grant than Louisiana, and 1t re-
quires only that those induce
ments should be properly known to
secure for Louisiana much of that inn
migration that is induced. perhaps, to go
further and fare worse. It is not neces-
sary to det1act from the advantages that
are offered to the industrious husband
man in every section Of the United States
over those he finds in Europe and other
countries of the Eastern Hemisphere, nor
do we intend to detract from them when
we say that no State Of the American
Union possesses superior advantages to
those that are offered by Louisiaaa to all
who settle within her limits and betome til
lers of her soil 1t is true, Texas possesses
much larger area of territory, but then
she is possessed of but little that will
| compare in richness of soil to the fertile
lands bordering on the Mississippi river
and its tributaries, embraced within the
limits of our State.
| The great cause Of immigrants passing
into other States in preference to settling
down here, has been, in the past, the diff
fculty of obtaining cheap lands. Many
| of our lardholders who formerly cult
waited large plantations with slave labor,
now that slavery is abolished, are left
without the labor to cultivate them, and
thousands of acres have thus been added to
the untitled lands of the State. Much Of
these lands are the very best in the State,
and had our land owners displayed the
same energy and enterprise that the land
owners of Texas ard the Western States
have done, they would have banded to-
| gether in efforts to induce immigration,
| and by assisting the efforts Of the Com
missioner of immigration, helped to turn
| the tide of immigration to Louisiana.
They only have to let it be known that
these lands are in the market, and
can be purchased in tracts to suit pur-
chaser, and at prices not exorbitant, to
| induce the formation Of Immigrant COM
panies in the old country that would come
| out here and form settlements in our
State that would soon become garden
spots. They would not only enter upon
the cultivation of cotton, sugar and rice:
they would cultivate corn, potatoes, all
kinds of garden vegetables, peaches,
| plums, grapes, oranges, figs and bananas.
| There are German settlements already
formed on the line Of the jackson rail-
road, few miles from this city, where the
raising Of cabbages is made immensely
profitable. Peas, beans, pumpkins, ground
! peas and broom corn are also easy Of
| cultivation, and reward labor hand
somely. The ranie plant bids fair to
| reward labor more bounteousiy than all
! things else, Il those who have already
entered upon its cultivation are not mis-
taken in their calculations. The soil and
climate OF Louisiana are peculiarly
| adapted to its growth, and, as il requires
little or no labor after it is once planted,
does not require to be replanted,
and produces the value OF much more
money to the acre than either cotton or
sugar, it is Just the crop that will munifi-
Gently reward the cultivators Of the
soil-those men who follow out the
maxim Of Franklin, that
| He who by the pillow would thrive
Himelf must either hold or drive.
| In addition to these advantages to the
! tillers Of the soil, there is no reason why
they can not become stock-raisers also IN
Louisiana. IN many portions Of the
State stock does we'll. In what is known
as the Attakapas country, stock-raising is
q most profitable branch Of farming, and
there is no part Of the State where the
| farmer can not raise his own meat-his
beet, his pork, and his mutton. And
| poultry is raised with scarce an effort. A
farmer with q flock Of sheep will gather
| quite revenue from wool; and if he keeps
| few cows, he can have much more than
butter and cheese for his family. He can
also derive revenue from the sale OF the
surplus of these articles.
The German people are just the ones
who would attend to all these things, and
by the diversity Of their productions Sc
cure that success in farming that is not
now reached, from the lack Of a diversity
of crops.
Louisiana wants population to cultivate
her rich lands, to ill up her towns and
cities and to complete her destiny. Give
her population that she is capable of
sustaining, and much of what is now
known as swamp and overhowed lands
would soon be redeemed. Thousands of
acres would be added to the tillabIe lands
of the State. New Orleans, under an i'm
petus of this kind, would grow rapidly;
and with G proper system Of drainage
established, would Danish the thought of
yellow fever and become fiourishing city.
But our people can not expect these
things without an effort to have them.
The people Of other States and cities do
not get them without energy and public
spirit. They have to bestir themselves,
and by showing the advantages Of soil,
climate, society, ETC., Of their State, in