Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-25
THE IH.IGRATlOH EXCITEMENT.
The Efficiency of the Press as = Means
for Recuperating the South.

In the absence of all organized effort by
any Of the States OF the South for the
purpose of inducing immigrants to settle
Rmong Us, the press of the country hiss
done incalculable service in this way.
Through the tireless efforts which the
leading southern papers have displayed
for several years, the press of the North
and of Europe is at length awakened to
the importance of this section for immi-
grafton, Wepublished last week trans
Istion of a very sensible and useful arti-
Gle from an influential German paper upon
the attractions of Arkansas. Here is an
extract from g recent issue of the New
York Democrat, which shows the interest
that is taken in our southland by people
who are wesried of being frozen up for
six or seYen months in the year; ~
What the South wants Is lsbor-skilled
labor not the tramping and msrauding
OF carpet bsggers, but honest labor, snx-
ious 10 enrich itself, thereby acquiring
capital by honest means. In the North
are three hundred Thousand young men,
single or married, who could better their
condition in life by going south and work.
ing plantations on shares. Within the
past year We have found bcLoes in the
Southern States for workers from the
North, and propose the coming year such
homes and such chances for thousands
more,
A few days since the owner of several
thousand acres of land in the richest cot
ton-growipg portion of Mississippi de-
cided to set spsrt small farms of sixty
acres each, for sixty families, or sixty
men married or single, who will 60 there
and work, as they can to more profit than
in the North. For the aocommod alton of
this people the owner of this property
will do this: Build for each person or
fsmlly good-sizsd, comfortable cottage
farmhouse; not shabby affair, but a
neat, attractive home; will erect q school
house, and employ competent teacher,
whose business shall be to teach the chill
dren of tensnts free of charge, seeking
uot to interfere with their religious faith
or political belief. With each cot
tsge or farmhouse will be set
apart fifteen acres Of the fifty to
be by the tenants cultivated to corn,
vegetables or fruit for their exclusive use;
thirty-fi acres, the balance of the fifty,
to be cultivated by the tenant to cotton,
one-hslf of the yield each season to be-
long to the tenant, the other half to the
owner of the property, till such time as
the tenant can pay for the fifty acres, or
more, at such reasonable price as may ba
sgreed upon. The owner OF the property
will raise no vegetables, corn or grain, but
will purchase of the tenants all they may
raise, sll they wish TO sell; snd will sd-
vsnce to those who wish to engage in this
enterprise empty-handed, provisions,
horses or mules and agricultural imple-
msnts. We consider this one of the best
offers for all parties TO be made. 1t is bet
ter for the owner of the land than to en-
ploy negro help, that cannot be relied
upon, or to suffer the land to remain in
idleness, unproductiVe, and, therefore,
worthless.
While the governing power at the
North, not in sympathy with the people
either north or south, is forcing upon the
southern people thieves, spectators,
land-grsbbers, csrpetbsg-
gers, prlson-birds Of various kinds and de-
grees, and All that soum of humanity anY
would do well to rid itself OF, let
the people of the Sonth invite the better
class of the population of the Horth-the
thinkers, the workers, the planners, the
builders, the honest men who live by
their own business-to come to
that country and make themselves homes.
Extend this invitation IN such man
ner as to make 1t an object for men of
enterprise from the North to 90 thither,
and there viii be heard all over that coun-
try within q short time, not the tramp,
tramp, tramp of armed minions Of TYR
amy but the tread Of countless armies
OF workers, who viii stay North or go
South as Inducements are held out to
them TO better their condition. This Is
the way to prevent war and render i'm.
possible q revolution = unite interests,
weave the warp and wool Of common
from one end of the land to
the other. Let us be brothers in fact, as
In the mockery Of s name now existing.