The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-01-22
IMMIGRATION.

OAOA AAOA4 OSOAJ HUeSASOA, 1870
from Europe, the everstocked beehive OF
human industry. Whatever may be said
of the fertile resources of the West to
Justify her in expanding millions annual
ly to induce immigration thither, we can
concede her no expenditure in this res
pect that we should not equally meet
with the hope of corresponding return
But to divert any part of the flow of Eu-
ropean immigration from its customary
channels, demands of the South, greater
outlay of all the mos approved measures
now practised by the Northern States, to
secure an increase to their productive
population. With all the many preju-
dices engendered by slavery and mis-
representation to the mindss of European
Yeomen against us with few railways,
and fewer systematic and practical in
dtcements, such as schools, congenial as
ISOLATION, and the like, to attract immi-
grants to the South, we cannot reason
ably expect, even with the most approved
appliances, for some years, any consider
| able numbers of foreign immigrants. The
spasmodic attempts made three or four
years ago throughout the South, to in
duce immigration hither, was Matched up
in vindictive hatred to the negro. The
world knows the result And now that
the planters are perhaps thoroughly con-
WINGED that the black laborer cannot be
displaced, but is with them and must re-
main with them, they undoubtedly stand
ready to second any movement that may
be we'll inaugurated, looking to immigra-
ton. While the whole South must be
benefited by an increased population of
skilled labor, the planting as the most
interested will receive the largest divi-
dent Large estates no longer TILED by
compulsory labor must certainly prove
cumbersome to the owners Five hun
dred or six hundred acres under careful
cultivation will yield more than two or
three thousand, four-ffths of which being
in wilderness only entails taxation. Were
it not wise, generally, to parcel out these
estates into. moderate farms, to be sold
at reasonable rates and times of payment
to immigrants While sucha plan, for
a while may be seeming loss, in few
years, it would rebound with good inter
est. The time was, when German and
Scandinavian immigration (the most de-
sirable class of immigrants) to the South
was mootcd but owing to the wide diff.
ference between the climatic nature Of
their country and the South, it failed
But that doubt is fast solving itself in tht
flow of Germans to Texas, State by nc
means remarkable for its very colo
climate. The unprecedented success o.
our sister state in inducing immigration
thither, clearly shows us two things; thai
tangible and efficient inducements being
given, the best class of immigrants may
be had even in the tropical portion OF oul
! country. We strongly hold that the sue
cess of immigration to the South depend.
mainly in the readiness of planters to re
cognize existing facts and adjust them
selves to the same. A monopoly Of tn
land by few, must always be decides
bar to men seeking homes and independ
ence in this free land. No outlay woul'
return the State handsomer profit, than
in addition to all the enginery now a
work, to direct immigration hither, Il
purchase such plantations as are in tn
, market, and lease, rent, or sell them t
the practical gardeners, and farmer
who swarm the northern cities from Gel
many. Congress has hitherto largel
omitted the South in subsidizing steam
ships lines between our ports and thos
of Europe protests loud and long shoul
always accompany every act that woul
g criminally neglect the interests OF s
valuable section. Let no pains b
spared in having agents both at domest
and foreign ports men who are thorough
ly alive to the recuperation of the Soutl
: under the new regime. Men who sha
- study to difanse such information col
sonant with the facts, as shall secure I
- large immigration When the presel
disastrous war in Europe shall have enl
2 ed hundreds of thousands of peasants