The weekly clarion., 1872-02-22
The Aberdeen Examfmer,s PLAN 20
Promote Immigration.

n iate Aberdeen Examiner has an
elaborate article on the subject of foreign
immigration to this State; and as a
method of raising funds by voluntary
contribution for this object it submits the
following proposition:
Let the Press of the State. without regard
20 party, agree upon a day-not less than
Two months dlstant-upon which a public
ehtefLaInment OF some kind shall be given
IN every town and city of any size IN the
state, the proceeds of which shall 90 to con-
stitute an Immigration Fund, to be placed
IN the hands of committee to be hereafter
selected, and to be used in furthering the
cause OF immigration, by flooding the Rhine
PROVINCES CT France and other portions OF
Europe, with such statistical and descrip-
tive tracts printed in the languages there
spoken, as will thoroughly inform the peo-
pie as regards our resources soil. climate.
eCc ana show them the advantage OF emf
grating 10 an old, settled country where
good lands are cheap, rather than striking
out into the Western wilds
Ii the Press OF the State would take this
matter In hand, and fix upon day-say the
nrst saturday evening in May-for an en-
Oertalnment TO which tickets should be sold
at reasonable rates, in every town of any
Importance in the State. we believe that a
fund OF at least $25, 900 can be raised within
twenty-four hours. which will be splendid
pun WHICH 10 DdSc IuIure opera
tions.
These entainments could be repeated once
4 month for five or six months and thus an
immense capital be aggregated, without any
one ieehng burdened by his contribution
Speaking for Monroe, Lowndes, Chieka-
saw. Lee. Oktibbeha. Prentiss. Tishomingo.
Aicorn, Noxubee. Clarke, Lauderdale and
otner counties of East Mississippi, we do not
oelleVe that there are an hundred men in
any one OF those named that would willing
oil
gwen Tor this purpose, and we believe that
their compatrlots throughout the State are
equally Jealous.
Let Us hear from the Press of the State
on this subject and if they consider t.
scheme feasible. then let the central organs
Of the two great parties at Jackson, name
the day.
So far as we are concerned, we can
only say that we are prepared to co-ope-
rate IN the foregoing, or in any other
feasible plan to carry out the object pro-
posed.
And while on this subject of immigra-
ton into our State, we will take the lib
erty of publishing an extract from late
letter of thoughtful and public spirited
citizen, setting forth plan for increasing
the industrial and wealth producing pop
ulatiOn of the State, with such elements
as would elevate its tone and maintain
its character for manliness and intelli-
gence. He writes
1T [ were to embark in an immigration
enterprise l would not leave the Southern
States. | would go into Middle Tennessee
and North and South Carolina, Georgia and
Virginia and induce worthy young men OF
confederate character (not scallawags) to
come here and rent lands for one or two
years, under promise that they should have
the refusal to buy when they were able to
carry on business for themselves. To do
this, they would require the cooperation OF
land owners, which could easily be had, and
men of that character would receive such
encouragement from land owners that they
would be content to stay. While all worthy
men from every country and cline would
be welcomed, we who were Confederate
soldiers, or the sons OF such. who have
grown to'manhood since the war. would es-
pecially interest them, and meet with en-
couragement and good neighborhood, with
out which man, unless he is an office
seeker or holds lucrative office, would be
content to stay"
The prosecutions of the class here de-
scribed in South Carolina by the Federal
government and the bad State govern
ment, which have made their citizenship
intolerable, would render that State an
inviting field for such an operation as our
correspondent mentions.