The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-10-11
IMMIGRATION AND LABOR
The South and the Advent of
Capital and immigration.

The New York Tribune is of the
opinion that what the South needs is
subdivision by exact surveys of land
cd property, and associated plans for
advertising eligible pieces OF ground,
and for inviting purchasers and emf
grants from Europe. And yet the
only obstacle to this advice is the-course
pursued by the parties who proifer it.
While they proclaim this sentiment
with one breath, with the other they
have held up falsely the Common
wealths of the South as the scenes. of
violence and discord, and recommend
ed the immigrant to the hard labor
and scanty life OF the North and
West.
The people of the South are fully
alive to their interests. Intelligent,
practical and With adaptation to events
they are fully aware of the necessities
of public welfare, and are ready at all
times to advance the individual pur-
suits and promote the public prospect
ty They have exhibited a clear ap-
probation of affairs, a ahopeful endur
ance under difficulties, and an ultimate
confidence i'll the future, worthy of all
commentator and of final triumph.
There is no section where the inmi-
grant is more warmly welcomed than
at the south, or where his prospects
: and advantages for success are more
encouraging. At tho North and
West he has for many months in the
year harsh and forbidding climate,
! where the rivers, lakes and ground are
frozen, where agriculture is almost
impossible, and where the results of
the milder season are swallowed up in
the time of closed work and intense
cold.
Here at the South; amid genial
climes, and soil responsive at all
seasoiis, with the same labor, economy
and care he will find far more re
muneratiye return. ... .-.....
And ifa comparison is made as to
climate, it will appear that the ratio
of health in the North and West is
very much the same as at the South.
We are inclined to think that the
.health of nearly all civilized countries,
where attention is paid to hygiene and
its laws, is very much the same.
Throughout the world every locality
has some form of disease and death,
otherwise life would be perpetual =
The North has, more particularly, its
consumption, and the West its typhoid
and other tevers, which its statistics
show is as general and fatal as the
forms of diseases of other sections.
In other words, we believe there is lis
much prospect of longevity at the
South as in any other portion of the
country. And SC far as this State is
concerned, it will certainly, in this re.
spect, compare favorably with 9TH
ers.
There is another matter, at least in
South Carolina, which, however it
may be in the teeth Of calumniators,
is also strictly tue. There is no State
where individual merit, whether ex-
hibited on the part of the adopted or
native citizen, meets with more COR
recognition. This is fully attested by
the past. From the time of the first
revolution to the present large num-
Der of those who have been eminent
in political, judicial and legislative life,
in the various municipal boards, in
counsel, on Change as merchants,
professional men and citizens in fact,
in every department Of life, at all
times and at all periods, have been
those who have come as strangers to
the soil of South Carolina, but who
have met ready recognition where
ever there has been industry, honesty
and merit exhibited.
We regret to say it, but every effort
for the statement of the truth, and
the developement ofthe South, wheth-
or it be of self-government, of soil, of
or of population, has been
met with attack, opposition and mis-
representation on the part of n large
majority of the journals of the North.
Another Of the real obstacles to