The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-17
Southern Emigration.

+ -- Inc MILWAUKEE, tWis.) Sentinel, always
able and racy, has the following on South
ern emigration. We must ask il to make
u an exception in favor of Northern Virgins
and many other districts of greater or les:
j, extent in the South We want men from
the West especially. Those who leav,
Wisconsin to go farther West might fine
here as favorable locations in all respects
as there. By organizing cooperative
colonies the whole problem of schools,
roads, churches, and society, is solved.
We have always opposed isolated emigra-
ton southwark. 1t is sure to be disap-
pointment in most cases.
p g But read the plan we propose and re-
commend to those seeking new homes in
the South OR West. 1t will set the civili-
cation of the newer portions of our coun-
try ahead quarter of a century if gene
rally adopted, Send us your nvalids, and
we will cure them. Send your sturdy
young men in masses, and we will give
them field of labor worthy of their best
efforts and full of promise. Good friend
Thompson, give us lift. Help us fill up
this noble State--old in fame, but young,
fresh and unimpaired in resources, For
all you give us now we will render back
bye.and-bye hundred fold.
SOUTHERN EMIGRATION.
From Europe to the United States there
1s perpetual tide of emigration. A vast
wealth of laboring hands is given to us
every year. From certain sections, as
from Ireland, the emigration seems like
an exodus of an entire people. This tide
OF new life from the old world flows into
the Northern states. Few emigrant ships
land south of the Potomac. The main
Hood is poured into New York. Thence
{! it flows westward, along the parallels of
latitude. Very little of it is diverted to
the South. And the migration from the
older sections of the country rarely follows
the lines of longitude. The South cries
out for emigrants, but the emigrants
refuse to go. It calls for North
ern settlers, but Northern men and
women prefer their own incement skies |
to the land where ''the orange and the cit |
ron bloom" 1t is not worth while to seek |
any reconcile cause for all this. The |
laborlng classes, who compose the bulk of
emigrants, have common sense and sharp
intelligence of their own wants. The
slaveocracy of the South did more in the
course OF three or four generations to de-
grade labor than any set of men, holding
the control of society, have done elsewhere
on the globe in thousand years. Black
human cattle $50 treated by themselves
did their work. Any poor white man among
tnem would sooner drink chain-lightning
whisky, fish, hunt, borrow, beg, steal, vote
the Democratic ticket for crumb of favor.
than to labor. What industrious Irish
man or German would go to live among
sucn a people 1t is true that the South.
ern system OF expressing and degrading
labor has been broken by the war. but
the ruins of the old edi6oe are still. and
long will be, in the way The laboring
man seeks free schools for his children.
lie can find them in the North
west. At the South, schools are
moboed and the schoolmaster hanged
by the Ku-klux. The laborer feels tbat
he is man 'for a. that ana a, thar and
naturally wishes to be respected. In the {
North, the farmer and his son and his wife
and his daughter are as good as any body. 9
40 the South they are mud-sills. There are
other things more precious than soil and v
climate. The South will find for many a
year to come that slavery has cursed The T
sunny land, and labor that enriches the 1
land will continue to flow elsewhere. The h
emancipated blacks may be turned to GOOD
account, with justice and kindness mot IL
with hemp and powder.
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