Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-01

DIVISION OF LAND NECESSARY
TO SECURE IMMIGRATION.

VIZ L1AND NGOE<SSAE6G
TO SECURE IMMIGRATION.
We have often urged upon our readers
the necessity of dividing their lands in
order to secure immigration. 1t is con-
dition precedent 10 entice from the old
world that class of population which
would add to the wealth and greatness of
our State. Men Of prudence, forecast
and far-seeing sagacity, will not give up
certainty for an uncertainty. 1t is this
class of immigrants that our State stands
in need of, and not those who are willing
TO earn precsrious livelihood by trusting
to the changing chances of tickle fortune.
If it was known 10 Germany, Scotland or
England, to-day, that in the rich State of
Tennessee the farmers were dividing up
their lands and selling good qualities at
reasonable rates, our State would be flood
cd in Two years with an industrious, hardy,
capable and intelligent foreign population.
Then would She banks of our streams re-
sound with the busy hum of the spindle,
and our fields rejoice in the varied
products of the earth. Material develop
ment makes the greatness of a State, and
there can be no material development
without strong arms and willing hearts.
Moral force and intellectual force are
well enough in their place, but wealth
must precede these to great extent in
all countries. Poverty in a State is an
unerring prognOstic of deterioration in
the morals and intellect of the people.
The lameRted Buckle, in work of singu-
lar merit and research, held that all CIV
ilization is due TO an increase of knoWl-
edge, and that all social Improvements
and increase of knowledge are due to the
accumulation of wealth, because without
wealth there can be neither taste nor
leisure fer such requirements. Wealth,
then, lies at the foundation of everything
desirable on earth. We do not mean
boarded wealth, but wealth of muscle as
well as wealth of soil and money. No
State can be called poor that has a
rich soil and plenty of brawny
arms to work it, and still less
can it be called poor if it, in addition to
these, has inexhaustible beds of coal and
iron ore, and copper, and lead, and zinc,
and god, with plenty of navigsble
streams aud other means of transporta-
ton. Nature has made Tennessee rich, and
nothing is wanting in order to realize that
wealth but strong arms. Is there no way
to induce our people to sell or give away
a part of their lands to hard working
men who will save what they makel
Land is a drug on our market, and yet it
is hard for stranger TO buy. Thousands
of farms in the State are not paying
taxes-not because they are poor, but be-
cause they are not worked. If the lands
are not cultivated, how can the mines of
mineral wealth be wOrkedl Agriculture
must of necessity precede manufactures,
for the material Of art must De supplied
by the production of nature. Let our
lands be worked. Let us have an in
creased population. Let more acts be done
and fewer words spoken. In confederation
of what we have written, we append
the following letter from an intelligent
gentleman in Ohio, who has already
bought land in the county of Davidson,
and proposes moving down with colony.
We commend its perusal TO all men who
are interested in the cause Of immigrs-
ton, and hope the hints therein suggested
may be acted upon:
no the Editors Of the Union and American:
BRIDGEPORT, Belmont county, o., Feb.
IA, 1S71.-I see by your paper that you
are giving some attention to immigration
70 the State of Tennessee; and your law
makers are giving the subject some at
tention. | was in your State about four
months and Travelled in different parts OF
the State for the purpose of buying land
for colony. 1 bought in Davidson
county and have commenced operations.
Several of the members are on the land,
and sneak in the highest terms of coun.
trv and people, liking it much better thar
Ohio. | was highly pleased with land
and people-nev' treated better In my
life | like Southern hospitality much.
The people ot the South are not like The