The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-06-23

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People in Europe hav1' been taught
to regard us of the South as lawless
set and wicked people, prompt to
violence and apt atiusult, The most
erroneous impressions have been
made there with regard to our man.
ners and customs, and the healthful.
ness of our clinEte, etc. Before quit.
ting Europe kfgrants are made to
believe that 50r is considered really
kdishonordblc in the South. | have
fheard it stoutlv maintained, by gen.
tleInen 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 continne as
long as YOU sit still and make 10 eff
fort to remove them, or TO vindicate
yourselves or your State.
Now, by way of illgst,2tion, let US
county cooperation, the land owners
in each one of the cightv-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 see what il 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 10 pay taxes on ST.
! 100000 less than they do now, and
this, including county, State, FEEDER
al, school, and other taxes, count up
not a little sum, as YOU well know.
Ia the next place, your new COM
ers would have to pay taxes on tie
land that he buys or rents from vou.
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 mOucy, something like $4,000
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 c0merS, BY their
presence, their labors and their i'm
provements, would greatly enhance
the value Ofreal estate. 1t is by no
means an Over-estimate 10 assume
that by the time the first payment
fCl 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 gencr-
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 cighty-four com-
ties of the State Introducing the next
four years two hundred families
from abroad, averaging five souls
each. Why, in round numbers, that
WoUlu DU UiIC IUfroy}uUtiUu Ui SietB
new citizens into fhc ,-tatn. and an
addition of $S4,GOuOO0 TO its wealth.
In little while, aud 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 rta the Oh asapcake,
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 so eagerly and so long. Es-
innate fer yourselves, gentlemen, the
value of that.
Besides all this, | can well conceive
how that in certain branches of in
dustrv, the skiH 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, 4
German, or a Frcuchman, skilled in
the cultivation of the grape and the
manufacture of wine, or in the ma
nipulation Of the silk-worm, and the
fabrication of silk, or of the beet and
sugar, or of the olive and oil, or apt
i'll the raising of poultry, or in the
business of the dairy, etc; for the
climates of Tennessee are cOngenial
and admirably adapted to all OF these.
There is no mistake about it the in
dustry of your State is becoming
more and more subdiyided and our
people are every day rcco onizing
more palpably the mighty mWckle
which many mickiCS make. You
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 mack as the French in putting
little odds and ends together and
turning them to account, or who are
more thoroughly up in all the
'mickles." The eggs and chickens,
the geese, ducks and turkeys sold an
nually by the French peasants are
worth twice as much as your cotton
crop. The gross sum received in
France in account of these is reckon
ed at $4,000, 600 a year.
Why, there is your beautiful val
| ley of the Tennessee, especially that
portion which lies above the Muscle
| Shoals. There is no country in this
or any other land superior to it. 1t
supported both armies during the
war. And with its beautiful cli-
mates, fine soils and marvellous sour
ccs ofwcaIth, astonished every North
ern soldier who went into it with
ewes to see and mind TO comprc-
| hend. In these respects, iii its ad-
van;ages, ali taken together, that val
ley presents a combination of indus
| trial resources that cannot be found
| in Europe, nor on the shores of the
Mediterranean, save in the Promised
! Land, and in some respects this
chaming valley is superior to that /;
| for with climate Just as soft, it Is
| better wooded and watercd.
discover in your State many un-
occupied fields of industry which
would be very attractive to the for
eigner, and especially inviting to the
Germans and French, the Scotch,
Dutch and English, with their skill,
energy, industry, ingenuity, frugal
| ity and resources.
| Your climates are as thcirs-not
! divided out into seasons OF wet and
dry. like Spanish AInorica-but or
dained for winter and summer,
spring and autumn, with fruitful
showers at all seasons. Your annu-
al rain fall is about forty inches,
and corresponds to that Of France,