The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-08-10
IN, N!iGitATI0N.
Letter from Commodore Maury-
Wholesome Views.

OFFICE OF PHYSICAL SURVEY, '. Mild
Lexington, Va, 1871. !
am rejoiccd to learn that your PEG
pie have atlast walked up to the inpor'
lance Of immigration, and that they
have become 50 alive TO it rs to call
meetings to take counsel together,
That is right. 1t is q big subject too
large for any one man, city or country
to grappIe with singlc,handed. 1t re
quires concert @nd Joint cooperation,
Jealous action, and such as TO convince
lockers on that strong hands, stout
hearts and clever heads are atthe work,
and that you mean business.
The people Of the South may rely
upon it that therci is no rccupcrlticn of
material prosperity ;og them and theirs
i'll one day and generation short of n
good strong tide ofimm,2ratlon, Tina!
will insure it, and nothing else; for
nothing that / a see, short ola lib
eral introduction Of fresh labor and
foreign capital, is going TO give our
lands anything like fair and market
able value.
As a rule, the property of the South
is in real estate; aDd without lhclr
lands what are the people OF Tennessee
worth Nay, what is the State without
4 ~pocketablc value Of the lands Of the
State, worth? II is the chief source
of her revenue; and il she p rmit Ler
lands to 90 down to half their value,
and to be unsuitable at that, how can
she expect her people to pay their tax
cs, or her iiMancicrs to preserve her
credit?
According to the cnsus Of 1860,
ard | quote from that because the re-
turns Of 1870 have not yet been made
up, according TO that census, the cash
value in gold Of the lands, live stock
and farming Implements in Tennessee
was, in round numbers, two hundred
and eighty millions Of dollars. What
is their grccnback value now, paper
down? Three 70 urths? Not much
more, | fancy-no, but onc-half Of it,
fear. Are not lands in TennesgeQ a.
most unsuitable? Why? Simply be.
cause your own people W more than
they can till, and there are no new.
corners. 1t has been ten years since
stock was last taken among you, and
to be lower in pocket now than you
were then would, according to my way
Of thinking, show You to bc in the con,
dition which "old salts describes rs
,'hard - a7lcrn Of tie higher"
They say in the North that every
| man who comes from abroad and set.
ties in their section increases its wealth
$1,000. This, independent of the
ready money he fctches and the pow
cr he adds to the State by increase Of
population.
According to this cstcmatc, 10000
able. bodied cmigran.s coming from
Europe and establishing thems Ives IN
Tennessee would increase the wca!tl
of that State, by their presence anc
their labor alone, some $lO,O0O.OOO
Such an innuX of wealth and popula
ton would help considerably.
What are you disposed now to do tc
Get il? What agencies are you pre-
pared 10 set at work? What influence
to bring into play du'ing thencXt ycal
0 rtwo, chat II the end OF that time yot
may see, not only ten thousord com
inc in Il single year, but thousand, upon
thousands following from years attcl
and until your State is full
What are you and youl people pre-
pared to do to put this ball in motion
That's the question! Your conventions
may pass resolutions about your fine
climates and rich soils, setting forth
that Tennessee is u goodly land, il
need Of capital and labor, and that il
these will come, lhcy will be kindly re
ccived and well treated. Why every.
body at home knows that. The emi
grant abroad gill never hear it, and SO
you won't get more settlers to come
that way.
But if you will 90 to work with q
will, remembering that "wherc there's
. will there's . Way,' why the field Is
before you, tie way IS clear, and its
all your own.
White You are preparing for State
aid, and organizing rol county coop
Grafton, and paying TIE way for your
new comes, advertise yourselves and
State abroad in n manner that The en-
igrating classes there may, before they
"pull up stakes know something about
The country. Make immigrants &C.
Quainted with its soil and its climates,
its productions its resources. Let them
have maps and documents to make
them acquainted with the natural posi-
ton of our State, with its physical
geography in all its aspects, including
its social conditions and industrial re,
sources, and my word for it you will
crelong, turn to gladness much pres
ent sorrow.
could tell YOU now, if I had the
time. and you the patience to hear it.,
how that, yondcr in South America the
people, after having spent a generation
in wishing for immigrants, (as the
South has been doing since the war
and With Just the same degree of Sue
cess, have at last, they and their gov
crnment, determined to act. They
chartered ships in Europe, paid the
passage Of immigrants, and when they
arrived gave them land. In a short
time the stream was flowing; the eX-
pcnse was over; the thing was estab-
self,supporting and immensely
profitable. The other day. when the
Franco prus5ian war broke out. a fleet
ofships u day, ! think, the year
lround-was playing between Europe
and Buenos Ayrcs, loaded with immi.