New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-25
The seIGExiIed southerncrs.
Terrible Suferings offhe Planters who went
TO Braaii-A Picture OF Despair, Depravfty,
and Destifution-An Intelligent Planters
Opinion OF Brazti and HIS yenture-a SEN
satien story Refuted.

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and Destifution-An Intelligent Pianrer's
Opinion OF Brazil and HIS yentnre-A Sen
satien story Refuted.
From the New York TINES
| Immediately after the collapse OF the grea,
| rebellion hundreds of the adherents of the
"Lost Cause" some Of whom bad been soldiers
in the armies of the defunct Confederacy. and
many Of whom had, previous TO the war, been
large planters, declaring that an existence
within the United States was absolutely unen-
durable, emigratsd to the Furnishing Empire of
Brasil The deluded colonists were led TO be-
lieve that in Brazil they would End climate
and country suited to their luxurious tastes, and
q land flowing with milk and honey arose 10
their imagnstions AZ their future paradise
The Government of Brazil, thinking that it
saw . favorable opportunity in the disaffected
population OF the Southern States of colonizing
Brasils enormous tracts of unimproyed terri
tory with experienced agriculturists, established
colonization agencies in New York, Richmond.
Savannah, Mobile, and New Orleans. These
depots were expressly provided with view of
expediting emigration, by Offering, Is it was
supposed by the einigrants, superior facilities
and inducements for making Brazil an attractive
home for the settler. The agent in this city,
besides sending q number of Southerners, fur
nished transportation to over 1000 persons.
comprising among them the rough scruf@'
gathered from all quarters Of the habitable
globe. ready and willing for anything except
hard work. Arriving at Rio de Janeiro, most
of the latter class of emigrants refused to con-
ply with their contract by coonizing the inte-
ri0r and remained in the vicinity of the capital,
| eking out a miserable existence as best they
| could. After making the city Of Rio perfect
pandemonium for nearly two years they we're
sent home at Government expense, the Bra
zilians feeling perfectly satisfied in suffering
the additional expense in order 10 he released
from their turbulent colonists
But q number OF very estimale gentlemen,
among whom were tobacco growers from Vir.
gina, cotton planters from the Carolinas,
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and ex-
tensive sugar planters from the famous Red
River district Of Louisiana aud Middle Texas,
daxzled by the brilliant prospect Of recuper
atng their depleted fortunes, emigrated with
! their families to the provinces of San Paulo
and Esplrtu Santo, in lower Brazil. Whole
districts of the finest land in the South, from
Maryland to Texas, were sacrificed for mere
| song by the great exodus of reputable emf
grants and disreputable adventures, who were
alike infected with the fever for Brazilian
colonization. 1t has now been nearly six years
since the departure Of the first party OF Bra
lillian cOlonists from the United States, and in
all there must have been several Thousand
persons of all classes and degrees who have
left their comparatively comfortable homes in
the free States of America TO exchange them
! for questionable residences in the wilds Of
mongrelized Brazil.
These misled people have since learned
terrible lesson Of sad experience, and now
bitterly repent the course they have pursued.
Every day In the gay thoroughfares of the
Brazilian capital are to be seen hundreds who
have, years gone by, revelled ia luxury and
aftuence, and who are now actually begging
| from door to door, and making poor, ptiful
effort to drown their miseries by spending the
pittance thus obtained in the nearest drinking
booth, where potent libations OF villainous
dguddteTte-the vilest decoction in Christen-
dom--is peddled for the smallest fraction of a
| cent.
| The writer of this sketch was walking down
the Rus Dereita, the great boulevard of Rio de
Janeiro, one evening last January, when he
was accosted by miserable. ragged, and
squalid-looking object. who implored him,
/" for Gods sake, give me only Vinte" (less
than quarter of a cent? to get something
to eat" The wretched man said that he had
been in Brazil four years. He had left a
young wife and child in Baltimore, and had
emigrsted with many Others whom he said
were then as destitute as he hoping to repa ir
his fortunes, but instead be had been going
rapidly down Hill ever since he had first landed
| on Brazilian soil The condemnation, des.
| plte his haggard look aud ragged appearance.
| tie man bore the semblsnse Of responsibility
| said that he was graduate or the Jefferson
College Medical School, in Philadelphia, and
had at one time large and lucrative practice
in Richmond, Virginia. When reaching Bra
all he had at first endeavored TO practice medi-
cine among the American col0nists Of the San
! Paul0 province, but the colOnists were rs poor
as he and he was finally compelled 10 return
TO Rio de Janeiro sick at heart and much more
sick in body. Wandering about the dingy
streets of the lower part of the vast city for
days upon days without place TO lay his head
or scarcely morsel to eat, he At last applied
to the city authorities for employment. and
though greatly debilitated By long suffering
and exposure. he accepted work on the public
highways. Under the scorching rays Of a tor.
rid sun this gentleman trundled his barrow
through the streets of Rio filed with sand or
stone for the PAYERS at work on the boulevards.
Finally the doctor was taken i'll, and was con
seqaently obliged to relinquish even that labo
rlous means of subsistence, and q few days
after the rencontre on the Rua Dereita spoken
Of above, he was found dead in a filthy hovs
10 an obscure section of the city. Being q
Protestant he was denied Christian burial
by the ecclesiastical authorities, when, forum
atey, q few generous hearted American sea
captains and the officers Of the United States
flagship Lancaster had the poor fellow de
Gently inferred.
In remote quarter of one of the lowest pre-
cincts OF the capital is ricketty4ittle building
far inferior in its filthy, slovenly appearance to
the vilest Sixth Ward groggery in this city
Over the door of the dlapidated howell is a sign
in glazing cspitals, which proclaims the ma
tionality of its owner beyond all question The
sign reads thus: The Dixie Free aud Easy
Concert Saloon" There, behind the counter
of that miserable Brazilian drinking shop, sur
rounded by lewd women, and dispensing the
commonest native liquors to as vile set Of
scoundrels as ever cut a throat, is all that re
mains Of a man who was once might among
his people-a man who has been the mayor Of
one Of the principal cities of the United States
also prominent officer in the Confederate
army. His story is not dissimilar from that oil
the poor physician. Want des pair, drink, and
its attendant evils, have made him what he is
In the penal colony of Ferdinand de Naronhs
are two or three gentlemen criminals who were
once respected citizens of the South, bat who
having lost all their worldly possessions in the
United States, were tempted to emigrate tC
Brazil by visions Of speedy afluence and free
dom from toll, aud having these bright dreams
as speedily dispelled, concluded, it seems, thai
honor was only q mite more to lose, reeklessly
plunged into an abyss of fraud and forgery, anG
as consequence are now enduring miserabl,
existence on the lonely island of Naronha a,
Brazilian convicts.
very intelligent gentleman, who Was for
merry an extensive sugar planter on the Bayou
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