The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-08

| -M1sREpREsENr1Na THE
SoUTH.-The tide Of immigration to this
country from Europe has from the very
beginning been directed chiefly to the
North and West. So scanty has been
the how to the South that the popula-
lion there remains in the main almost as
Tree from admixture with foreign ele.
ments as it was in the colonial era.
That the South had climate and physi-
cal advantages not inferior 10 those of
any other section; that it possessed ex-
c!uslvely the peculiar agricultural sta
Piles which formed the chief basis of
American commerce, seemsd to be either
unknown or uncared for by the great
majority of emigrants. A country hav.
ing as large territory rs Great Britain,
France, Austria, Prussia and Spain COM
olned. fertile territory, whose STAPLE
productions mono Of those great coun-
tries could grow, with 5000 miles of
continental shore line, 30 indented with
bays and crowded with islands that,
adding the shore lines, there are 1000
In ali-this great country, penetrated by
the mighty Mississippi, itself the reci-
pient of $4,000 miles of tributary
strcame; that such country as this
should look in vain for i'm migration is q
phenomenon which can only be ac-
counted for by the peculiar bar which
slavery interposed during its existence to
settlers from Europe, and the force Of
the pre]ndices engendered thereby, and
sedulously cultivated before and since
tue war by enemies of tue South, who
nave spared no pains to misreprcsent
the character OF the population, and
even the natural advantages of the coun-
try.
The Northern AND Western States. in
their eagerness to secure and even to
monopolize immigration from Europe.
have not hesitated to exalt all that apper.
tains to their own section, whether OF
character, soil or climate, st the expense
OF Ill thut is Southern. They do not
hesitate to report Southern society as
depraved, brutalized and ferocious under
the influence of slavery. They describe
that part of the population which was
once slaveholding as brutal and vindic-
tive, whilst the on-slaveholding are
stlgmatlzed as base and void of all intel.
lect. They seek even to recommend the
wlntry rlgors of their own cline by de-
claring that in the South "the hot sun
would not let q white laboring man live >"
Having the means, through their press
and emigration agents, under the auspices
OF selfish speculative enterprises, and
the great number Of Northern travellers
In Europe, to obtain hearing on that
continent which the South has not, they
have succeeded, until lately, in poison
Ing almost all the sources of information
concerning America which Europeans
have, and enlisting the press of Europe
IN the dissemination of. false inteili-
gence. Not only this, but opposition to
emigration to the Southis said to be per-
tectly organized in the emigrantsendiug
countries OF Europe, through the work.
lngs OF Western and Northern cmipra.
ton agents. representing either State,
or private land companies aud railroad
lines, which are in possession of vast
territories unrightfulIy given them at tho
public expense. In u very able series of
articles contributed to the Southern Ma.
gasine, of this city. by Col. +. Schaller,
OF Athens. Ga, We lind some extracts
from various foreign journals, all in the
spirit OF the following, from Danish
journal: I'VE again warn them against
emigration to the Southern States of
America, for the men who 90, either
voluntarily or bound by contract, to
those States. run into the abyss Of the
most frightful destruction, and will likely
become slaves worse than ever we're the
black slaves"
1t is even asserted that societies and
firms In this section, composed of men
who make money from the Southern
people, nse direct influence to misrepre.
sent their social and political condition,
and hinder their efforts to secure immi.
grafton. Some of the leading German
papers, however, are now taking more
Intelligent view of the subject, and plac.
ing before their readers the inducements
and facilities offered by the South to
emigrants A primary condition of sue.
cess in obtaining immigration is 10
spread Information concerning the South
among the European people by means
OF such agencies as will command conf.
dence, and in such manner as NAV be
least Objectionable to foreign Govern
ments, which have found it necessary to
establish laws regulating the sphere of
action of emigration agencies, in order
to protect their people as far as possible
from the fraud, extortion and inhumani-
ty practiced upon them by emigration
agencies and companies pursuing their
| own private aims. Colonel Sohaller con-
tends that thiH can he mont off,otnoll,,