New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-23

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bodies Of French IN this country. H.
Southern States arc deeienated - he -
ti0n Of the country most Mkely tUpfo0S
attractive to these Frene6, - - ~
them climate, . soil, and : prodaot35
familiar to them. But Il " not 11St6ly an,
agricultural population We want 1fosn
France. There are many branches of IN
dustry pursued in that country which heve.
never been acclimated or introdueod here,
There are bodies OF skilled laboeers, mAn.
and women who cupningly execute vufk
that American mechanics have rain1y
sought to emulate. sss Z.
There il good reason why these people
should be brought here and Get to work. 1ho,
French have always had habit Of Colonix-
ing rather than Of emigrating. They natu-
rally go in groups, and this renders y easy
to bring them out in the large bodies nec4st
sary to set up and prOeecut0 Succeosfipl
manufactures. They are an Industries, !,
temperate, peaceful people, good citisene
and good neighbours, and Of I~y and vole-
tile character, we'll calculated to enliven
and irradiate tbe gloom and pOsitiyeueaa u
our general American business and epeia3
tone. For out of our yEnglish. blood, the
peculiarly noticed by FfUiStRFt haa mot vt
disappeared. and we even now take orr
amusements and our holidays sadly
One mistake is made in regard t0 rrench
Immigration. It in argued that it naturally
follows the isothermal lines, and bence viii
seek the milder climates Of our country: -
if all France was vine-2rOwing and sunny.
The dreadful results OF freezing weather IN
the armies on French soil thia winter past
tell us Of something like Arctic cold. The
present French colonies are very largely in
equatorial or tropical regions, and many Of
them where only Frenchmcn can live.
Their North American colony is Of the
coast Of Newfoundland, in the path Of the
old line of French settlement. 1t was to
the northern part Of tbis country, and not
to the southern that the French tended.
They poured in at the St. Lawrence. and
followed its long, upward course t. its very
sources, planting posts and colonies every
where. They crossed over Illinois to the
Mississippi, and set their banners up an
along the great valley.
The Far West has river and town mo-
menclature as characteristically French =.
that of France itself When the c0lonyof
Acadia was broken up and s0Attered many
wandered to far away Orleans, and OK
changed the fOgs of the Grand Bank for the
palms Of the gulf. The French settled u
groups in South Carolina, on. Staten 1aland,
at Newport, and wherever they made :
home there they have left hon0rcd names
and have been followed BY descendants
who are unsurpassed by any other elemA1te
of our population. Canals has. bee1 their
great fO0thold--and there, to-day, number
ing large proportion of the population
of the lower province, they retain
social, political and religious syetem
two centuries old, and ON whiak tie
civilization of this period Of progress hos.
made only the slightest impression. II were
well if they had been more generally edu-
Gated. But in losing the mpulses'of our
civilization, they have escaped its vices.
Wherever on this continent the French &C
quired o foothold, they now retain an inter-
est in it, and thus they show y tenacity and
vitality equal to that OF any other Ulaassof
colonists. They can. live anywhere, aud
they can do any kind Of work. France 10.
filed with a population familiarised to
industries; its people have also
shown q capacity for the most stnpendous.
and architectural enterprises.
The encouragement of immigration in such
q people is an undertaking worthy Of the
best efforts of the organizations. private or
State, now competing for new Corners tothe
United States.