Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-12
to follow The "a 600 that it is probable

to follow the 81 900 that it is probable
| you should aim to start with.
! Nor is this all. Be neighbOrly; re-
ceive these newcomers with hOspl-
tality; treat them kindly; encourage
/ them with your friendly eOunsels and
/ give them the benefit Of your own
! experience as old residents. Send
| them a helping hand whenever you
can, and assist them to do well. By
! 80 doing, you make every one Of them
| a missionary in your cause, writing
| and preaching up to kinsmen and
! friends in the old country the advan-
| tages and blessings OF their new
homes. thus keeping up for you, with
| increasing force, the tide of immigra-
ton, which you and you alone, in our
day and generation, have the power
to put in motion.
Nov, for the per contra. What will
you lose by this plan? You will lose
for some years the use of forty acres
of land, which is now lying idle;
which you have not the power to cul-
tivate; which you cannot rent or
sell, and which is impOverish-
ing you to keep. In other
words the plan suggested Is so rich
with promise that you can't lose and
may win.
These people will come to you per-
haps not with the accents of mother
tongue upon their lips, but with Ian
guage, social habits, manners and
customs not your own, and peculiar
to themselves. Therefore encourage
them to come in settlements; give
them in fee simple and at once, as fast
as they come in settlements OfnOt less
than -, sites for villages, churches
and schOOlhOuses.
Suppose that in 1855 you had pro-
ceeded to organize some such effective
plan for the encouragement of emigrs-
ton, by Offering 5000 acres in each
county, in 40 600 tracts, upon easy
terms, you certainly would have got
some immigrants. Do you think you
would have been worse of than you
are now? Oa the contrary, would
your lands have been as uusaleable as
they are at present? As it
is, instead of Increasing, I
land has deCreased-that is, they are
not worth as much now, in 1871, as
they were in 1860. The census gives
the cash value o. farms, by counties, |
in 1850. The average then, for your
State, was about s27O,OOO, ,OOO-S13 the |
acre.
The wealth Of the State Is in her
own bosom, and that belongs to you.
If you can dispose Of q portion Of your |
surplus acres at fair prices, you will |
be placed again in a position which /
will enable you to exercise the infiu- |
ence and control that you eXerted for |
such great and noble purposes before;
and / do not see how you can so dis
pose Of these vast possessions in your
lifetime, unless you can induce capital
and labor to come into the State more
rapidly than they are, or have been,
doing since the war. Unless you do |
this, you will lose control Of the State,
and your children be made hewers Of
wood. They will no longer be the
men Of Tennessee.
The most ready way of doing this
is to advertise and make known to !
those who are quitting the old cOun-
Try, before they quit, the advantages
which Tennessee and Teunesseeans
are prepared to offer them If they will
come to you direct. Tell them OF her
resources and their eX-
lauStless character. Tell them what
you are prepared to offer,
what inducements you are disposed to
hold out, and what encouragement
your State is ready to give. Be not
either in promise or per-
and my word for it, you'll |
zee many of your counties blooming
again like the rose.
N. F. MAURY.