The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-06-30

in nv judgement, would come, sCht1e
these DTe3tItItceS remain. You would
first have to disabuse their minds of
many q false impression. This pref
udice is the result Ofyears Ofsystem-
attic Misrepresentation and SANDER
which we have suffered there. IT is
only one of the grievances of the
South. The intensity of it, the abb
surdity of it, is simply astonishing,
and such as no one can form any Just
conception of, who has not been
abroad and mixed there in society
enough to catch the tone of the peo-
pie.
People in Europe have been taught
to regard us of the South as lawless
set and a wicked people, prompt to
violence and apt atinsult. The most
erroneous impressions have been
made there with regard to our man
ners and customs, and the healthful-
ness of our climate, etc. Before quit
ting Europe, emigrants are made to
believe that labor is considered really
dishonorable in the South. l have
heard it stOutly maintained, by gem
tlemen of extensive reading, that the
climate of Virginia, Tennessee, and
other Southern States, is so deadly
that outdoor work is certain death to
the white men. With such notions
about us in their minds, DO you think
the working men of Europe are like
ly to seek homes among us? These
notions will probably continue as
long as you sit still and make no eff
fort to remove them, or to Vindicate
Yourselves OP VOIIF State
Now, by way of illustration, let us
suppose that, with State aid and
county cooperation, the land owners
in each one of the eighty-fOur coun-
ties of Tennessee should set to work
in such right good earnest that, dur
ing the next two years, 200 Well-to-
do families, 1000 souls in all, should
be induced to come from abroad and
settle themselves among you. Let
me sec what it would come to. In
the first place the wealth of each of
your eighty-four counties would be
increased 81 100000 by the presence
of these new corners, and the old res
idents would have to pay taxes on ST.
100000 less than they do now, and
this, including county, State, FEEDER
al, school, and other taxes, count up
not little sum, as you well know.
Iu the next place, your new COM
ers would have to pay taxes on the
land that he buys or rents from you,
and so relieve you of burdens to that
extent.
Again, these thousand new COM
ers would spend in your county, in
money, or in services, the equivalent
of money, something like 100000
the first year, and smaller sums an
nually for several years, until they
could get their farms fairly under
way, and themselves sufficiently pro-
vided to become producers and of
these expenditures you would get
the lions share.
Finally, the new corners, by their
presence, their labors and their i'm
prOvements, would greatly enhance
the value of real estate. 1t is by no
means an Over-estimate to assume
that by the time the first payment
fell due, after the long credit that
ought to be given, the value of your
own lands would be increased to the
extent of several dollars an acre. In
deed, if the plan were adopted by
! the landowners of the State gener-
ally, and successfully carried out,
your children would see real estate
| changing hands in figures at which it
| is now held in Delaware, Pennsylva-
MIA and New Jersey. 1t would not
be unreasonable even for the middle
aged among you to expect to see that
day. Each of the eighty-four coun-
ties of the State introducing the'next
four years two hundred families
from abroad, averaging five souls
eachi Why, in round numbers, that
would be the Introduction of $4,000
new citizens into the State, and an
addition of 100000 to its wealth.
In little while, and as soon as you
put the tide in motion, these people,
paying their own passage, would
come from the old country to Ten
nessee, direct Cta the Chesapeake,
thus placing at Southern doors, at
their own expense, empty ships,
ready to carry your produce back at
low rates of freight; and so you
would have the boon of direct trade
! which you and the whole South have
coveted 80 eagerly and so long. Es-
innate for yourselves, gentlemen, the
value of that.
Besides all this, can well conceive
how that in certain branches of in.
dustry, the skill of one man out OF
the 1000 foreigners for each county
would, in benefits to the community
amply pay for the fetching of the
whole of them. As, for instance, {
German, or a Frenchman, skilled il
the cultivation of the grape and the
manufacture of wine, or in the ma
| I,Fs .P h - /,
fabrication of silk, or of the beet and
sugar, or of the olive and oil, or APP
in the raising Of poultry, or in the
business of the dairy, etc. for the
climates of Tennessee are congenia
and admirably adapted to all Ofthese
There is no mistake about it; the in
dustry of your State is becoming
more and more subdivided and OW
people are every day recO gnizins
more palpably the mighty mucktt
which many michIes make. YOT
want experts among you in all these
branches, to teach you and "shoW
you how" by example,
There are no people who have
such a adck as the French in putting
little odds and ends together anC
turning them to account, or who arr
more thoroughly cup" in all tn
"mickles." The eggs and chickens
the geese, ducks and turkeys sold an
nually by the French peasants ar
worth twice as much as Your cOttol
. crop. The gross sum received il
France in account Of these is reckon
ed at $5O,UG9, 600 a year.
Why, there is your beautiful val
lev of the Tennessee, especially tina
portion which lies above the Muscl
Shoals. There is no country in thi
or any other land superior to it. ]
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