Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-13
THE CITY.
French NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IL May be
Secured for Memphis and The Sur
rounding Country.
Parisian Ignorance OF American GeoE-
raphy-The MOdern and Ancient
Memphis by the Nile Mixed mp.

Partisan Ignorance OF American GeOG-
raphy-The MOder and Ancient
Memphis by the Nile Mixed ~.
BY permission of the firm to whom it
is addressed, we are able TO lay before
cur readers the following very interest
ing letter upon the subject of immigra-
ton, from an intelligent French gentle
man who, rs will be seen, Is an ardent
friend OF our section. This Is another
of many indications that have reached
us of the favorable regard of foreigners
for our young and thriving city:
PARIS, FRANCE, March 2l, 1872.
Messrs. Donohof& Bulkley, Memphis Agency
SouthernImmtgration:
q GENTLEMEN-I owe the Hon. Jacob
Thompson and Colonel W. G.. Ford
many thanks for having procured me
the advantage Of your esteemed favor Of
February 23d, and your invoice of
pamphlets and papers. 1 had, l think,
the pleasure of making the acquaintance
of your MI. Donoho in the city Of New
York, in 1869. 1 was then, and previous
to that date, interested in the subject Of
Southern immigration, trade and COM
merce- Il 1901 or
/ have expended for the past three
years some money and much of my time
in furthering such interests, without
any prospect of ever being rewarded for
my devotion to the Southern u l
wrote several letters to your more prom
inent citizens, to Commodore Maury, in
particular, who had several of them pub
lished, 50 AS TO SHAKE F THE APA-
THY OF THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE. They
have not yet done anything, 1t is true,
but / have confidence in them, in their
courage, in their intelligence, and in
their love of independence. So l am
not discouraged, and l shall certainly
work for them as laboriously as ever.
Your letter is a new evidence of my
faith in the South. The conclusion to
which you tell me the South has ar
rived-that of direct Immigration
proves how conscious it is of its true in
terests. Now, all that you have to do is
| to carry this into practice. In doing so,
| you can Immediately obtain a valuable
immigration, productive labor and CAPT
tai. and add several millions yearly to
your wealth. Allow me to give you
the process by means of which you can
reach this result:
France is at present the most prolific
field for emigration. She gives fifty
thousand emigrants per annum to the
| Argentine republic, and from all ap-
pearances the same amount will 60 to
the west of the United States this year.
| Not a week elapses but hundreds of
| families are embarked from Havre for
Kansas. Illinois and Nebraska. These
| States have (here) their agents spread
ing documents and expanding a great
deal of money. So is NJ. B. in behalf
of the Canadian government.
NY heart bleeds at the idea that the
| South, who could get that immigration
through proper instrumentalities ane
influences, is not yet doing anything
concerning the propagation of the
documents destined to introduce the
South on this market and to adopt it
self to the circumstances and peculiari-
ties of the French.
The right way to get a good and per
manent emigration, increasing like an
avalanche in its progress, is the prepar-
alton and circulation of documents set
ting forth the resources and advantages
of your eountry-its soil, climate, health,
productions, transportation facilities,
employments, wages, opportunities for
investments, and the establishment OF
manufactures. These should be dis
tributed extensively and %gratuitOuly
throughout all this country. This is the
way the Argentine Republic operates.
Ten wears ago there were about two
thousand emigrants and fifty vessels
going to BuenOs Ayres. Now there are
fffV thousand eB1igrdnts and ttOO hun
dred and fifth vessels and steamers
yearly taking that route. This rich
trade and emigration has been created
bv the means indicated. AS soon as the
South commences to act as the Argen-
tine Republic, you will getan emigration
which will create a line of steamers with
French capital. Your business mer
and your landowners ought to supply
the means of such publications and theil
dissemination, and your merchants
ought TO make orders direct for French
goods, in order TO accelerate the estab-
iishment of such a line. Through ont
Chamber of Commerce, numbering
eighty in Paris alone, capitalists anC
business men here may be reached anC
attracted to your city for the establish
ment Of mercantile and banking insti
tutions.
This, however, requires a special edU
cation, which you must undertake OF
your part before we can materially aiC
you on this side. To give you an idea o
the ignorance of this people concerning
the Southern States, l will tell you
visited the ten agents of emigration
located in Paris, and l found then
utterly ignorant about Norfolk, Rich.
mond and Memphis, especially the lat
ter, which they think an Egyptian city
of old. ] must add that in my opinion
the American representatives OF North
ern and Northwestern emigration herr
are hostile to the South and doing every
thing in their power to discourage II and
to divert it to their own channels. :
> 8 = But how can such a plaI
take shape and effect amongpeople herr
who believe that Memphis Is q city o
the Phdrdohs, and that your distin
guishcd President, Jefferson Davis, haI
selected it for his abode? The uccess o
; such a word demands due preparation
and such preparation demands an ex
lpenditure of means before the accom-
plishment of such an evil, and such de
mand ought to be made known in tn
proper way and through the prope
channels, not in the shape of an Anglo
Saxon document, but in a way to strikI
; the French people. Thousands of tn
: EiuucllAdl dnu ASAlO0Ab1AoA 0AooNo AMNi
} thus be obtained from Alsace, Lorraine
7 and Others of the best of France.
The greater your delay, the create
, your losses, as the Yankees and Canadi
ans are fast taking root in Paris. The.
are expeding their means freely, ant
they viii ultimately succeed in monOpo
LIKING this emigration, unless you al
awakened to your interest. However
, they are only beginning, and their bust
ness is carried on generally by mel
without much general intelligence
. hence, they are not much to be feared
and could easily be supplanted by an in
telligent advertisement of your South
/ ern country, and thus afford the Frenel
f people an opportunity of comparing fo
2 themselves the advantages of the re-
spective candidates for their patronag;
; VOI1ro vary tr1lu