The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-01-06
The Press as a Means OF Recu-
perating the South.

In the absence OF all organized
effort by any of the States of the South
for the purpose of inducing immigrants
to settle among us, the press OF the
country has done incalculable service
in this way. Through the tireless
efforts which the Southern papers
have displayed for several years, the
press of the North and OF Europe is at
length awakened to the Importance
of this section for immigration. We
published last week translation OF a
very sensible and useful article from
an influential German paper upon the
attractions of Arkansas. Here is an
extract from a recent issue OF the
New York Democrat, which shows the
interest that is taken in our South
land by people who are wearied OF
being frozen up for seven OF eight
months in the year:
What the South wants is labor
skilled labor-honest labor, anxious
to enrich itself, thereby acquiring
capital by honest means. In the
North are three hundred thousand
young men, single or married, who
could better their condition in life by
going South, and working plantations
on shares. Within the past year we
have found homes in the Southern
States for workers from the North,
and propose the coming year such
| homes and such chances for thousands
more.
A few days since the owner of sew
eral thousand acres of land i'll the
richest cotton growing portion OF
Mississippi, decided to set apart small
farms Of sixty acres each, for sixty
families, or sixty men, married or
single, who will go there and work,
as they can to more profit than i'll
| the North. For the accommodation
of this people the owner of the prop
erty will do this: Build for each per-
son or family good sized, comfort
able cottage-farmhouse not shah
by affair, but neat, attractive home !;
will erect school house, and employ
competent teacher, whose business
will be to teach the children of ten
ants free of charge, seeking not to
interfere with their religious faith or
political belief. With each cottage OF
farmhouse will be set apart fifteen
acres of the fifty to be by the tenants
cultivated to corn, vegetables or fruit
for their exclusive use; thirty five
acres, the balance of the fifty, to be
cultivated by the tenant to cotton,
one-haf the yield each season to
belong to the tenant, the other half to
the owner of the property, till such
time as the tenant can pay for the
fifty acres, or more, at such reason
able price as may be agreed upon
The owner of the property will raise
no vegetables, corn OF grain, but will
purchase of the tenants. all they may
raise, all they wish to sell, and will
advance to those who wish to engage
in this enterprise empty-handed, pro.
visions, horses or mules and agricul-
tural implements. We consider this
one of the best offers for all parties
to be made. 1t is better for the
owner of the land than to suffer, thu
land to remain in idleness, unproduc
tive, and, therefore, worthless.
Let the people of the South invite
the better class of the population o
the North-the thinkers, the workers
the planners, the builders, the homes
men who live by minding their owl
business-to come to that country ant
make themselves homes. Extend thi
invitation in sucha manner as to max,
it an object for men of enterprise from
the North to go thither, and Their,
will be heard all over that countr,
within a short time, the tread o
countless armies of workers, who vii
stay North Or go South as induce
ments are held out to them to bette
heir condition.