Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-12
COMMODORE MAURY.
What Re Thinks Of the Condition and Fu-
ture of the South.
How 10 Promote lmmigrati0n-Direct lraae
The Value Of Each Immigrant
70 the Country.
OFFICE PHgs'L SURVEY, v. NJ. l.,
LEXINGTON, Va, June 1, lS7l.

OrF1cF PHYs'L SURvEY, Y. NJ. l.,
LEXINGTON, Va, June 1, ls7l.
u, the Farmers Of Tennessee:
Since the war your husbandry has
not been as good as it was before.
Many of your farms are deterioratng;
labor in your State is not always
reliable, and there is no sale for your
lands. In the aggregate, you own
more acres than you can cultivate,
out Of the 100000 in the plat, yOU
cultivate less than 100000. Your
income has diminished and your taxes
and excise duties have been hugely
increased.
The war ended six years ago, and
YOU have waited till now, hoping
against hope, for better time. How
long will YOU waite Six years more?
But unless you bestir yourselves more
than YOU have done; unless you will
act in concert and learn to pull to-
getber. YOU will be no better of than
you are now.
To my view, there is no recupers-
ton for the South in our day and gen
Grafton, unless it comes by means Of
an immigration, that shall bring
abundantly into the country both
labor and capital. It will cost to do
thai: but cost what II may, even if
YOU have to divide lands with the
Immigrant, it will, in the end, be well
worth the cost.
Iam pleased to hear that the people
in your State are feeling anxious upon
this subject; that they are discussing
among themselves plans for lmmigra-
ton and direct trade, and are think
Inc Of calling upon the State to assist
and encourage with needful means
and legislation.
That YOU may properly appreciate
the advantages Of immigration, let
rs In Imagination, follow up the
stranger that comes from abroad and
settles among US, and see what he, 1
with mis- means and his husbandry, /
does 20 benefit his neighbOrhOOd and
to increase the wealth and population
both Of county and State.
In the first place, the best political
economists Of the North have, after
careful observation and study, come
IA fbe conclusion that every
Fur7Dpan Dau, woman and child /
tbst comes from his own home ana 1
settles in the West adds, by the mere |
force of his industrial energies, one /
thousand dollars on the average to the /
wealth of the country. This Is inde. /
pendent of the mOnSy and means
thst he brings with him.
Let US see what he does with these; i
For this purpose We viii suppose MIN
TO settle In your own neighbOrhOOd /
and upon your own land, IL you please.
We will suppose him to have a wife
and three children, to be sober, saving /
and industrious, and well up to his
business. lie comes impressed with
the notion common in his country
that 2 farm Of forty acres is as much
as family of five can manage, and
YOU must let him have IL on terms to
suit. Being g frugal man, he has
brought with him some money and q
little credit. perhaps He buys Of you
a farm of forty acres, One-thtrd cash,
the balance in one, two and three
wears. After making the first pay
ment be wants 10 buy with the bal /
ance something Of pretty nearly
everything that you and your neigh
b0rs have in your barns, stables and
poultry wards to sell. he wants live
stock, and farming implements, pros
ebdpr Tor his cattle and iOCd for his
family. He wants household fUrni-
ture fcd kitchen utensils, fruit trees
and seeds Of all sorts, and when he
comes II foot up his bill, and to show
vou what he has spent In your neigh
b0rbOod and paid Ia mOuey-Or in
work. the equivalent Of mOney-du
ring his first year among yOu, you will
fnd shat it does not amount 10 one
cent less, on the average, than $500 i0r
each member Of his family.
Now this, you observe, is the most
profitable commerce that farmers can
have. ItaffJrds them a market for
many things which, but for the new
conner, would be uusaleable. In this
commerce YOU have no commission to
psv, no charge to meet on account Of
freight, storage, drayage, or any Of the
muItituiiuous 6t Cgterds that eat up
your substance. There are no middle
men concerned in this busin ess; il is |
the most direct and profitable trade
that II is possible TO have. The con
sumer brings with him his money and
his market from abroad and sets them
down at your door, and its all your
own. If
This is the commerce that makes
the West so prosperous in spite Of the !
state Of navigation and Tor s
aign commerce Of the country.
i estimate this foreign commerce I
this commerce which the immigrants ]
bring with them from abroad and I
carry into the Northwest, the section (
above yOu-tO be worth annually Z
something like Sl50, 600, and 10 be ter
more remuner8five than the heaviest Z
cotton crop OF the South with its S325,- (
0OO. 900 In the gross, because IL leaves :
ls profits in the hands of farmers all {
those high charges which cotton has j
tO nav for production, freights, bro g
zerage, insurance and commissions. :
For the last Eve years all the South
srn States have felt and confessed the '
need OF immigration, and all Of them 4
10 the east Of the Mississippi have Fl
.egislated with the view Of encOur- a
aging it, but so far without success. I :
speak OF European immigration. So a
lar es your State is concerned, she has Z
vet to receive, except by driblets, the \
irst ship load. What have they got? q
Let Us see. We know that Of Euro 3
Dean emigrants few or none come TO ]
ls direct. They land chiefly in New I
York. and these are the numbers that Q
lisembarkPd there for the South for y
ne two years Of 1868 and 1869:
1868. 1859. b
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