Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-06-06
HOW TO GET IMMIGRANTS SOUTH.

Our correspondent, Agricola, we'll known
and successful planter of East Alabama,
thinks the best way to get emigrants into the
South is to bring them in at Southern ports.
We would be delighted to seeit done, but we
ask him to look at the facts. Fifty vessels
arrive at New York to every one that comes
to Southern port. Shipping cannot be i'm
provised just to carry immigrants. There
must be sufficient trade and commerce with
foreign countries to induce regular lines Of
vessels. There must be large capital invested
and plenty of freight provided. Gradually
the Southern ports will establish such relations
with Liverpool, Havre, Bremen and other
ports. In the meantime almost the entire i'm
migration into this country will take place ss
it is now, through this and one or two other
Northern ports. ~ .
1t all entirely practical thing to get i'm
migrants to 60 South, even after they land
here at Castle Garden. But it can not be
done by talking and holding conventions, and
passing resolutions, and sending agents to
spend month or two travelling in Europe.
It must be done, if at all, in the same plain,
common sense sort of way that men do other
business. If Agricola wants a gin, or
mule, he does not call meeting of his neigh
bors and deliver harangue and pass reso-
luton that they are good things to have and
ought to be encouraged. No, he sends an
order to his merchant here, there, or elsewhere;
or he goes himself and purchases what he
wants. Now, the same sort ofpractical work
get immigrants. If Agrieola would like to
have one, FIVE, or hundred white laborers,
all he has to do is to send US the order for
them, describing the kind he wants-whether
English, Scotch, Irish, German, French, Scan.
dinavian, or what not whether single or mar
ried, state the wages he will pay, and how, ac-
company his order with money enoughto to pay
their expenses, which can be deducted from
their wages, and We will till his order within
a reasonable time. -la77ta
If he would like to divide up his large plan
tation into small farms of few acres each
and sell them to good, well-to-do, thrifty Eng
lish, Scotch or German farmers, and will send
us full plot and description Of his property,
describing its location, facilities for reaching
it, accessibility to market, what can be pro-
duced, and the terms he offers, we can proba-
bly, put him on speedy way of realizing his
plans. If several land owners in the same
vicinity were to unite their property for such
a purpose, so as to offer the advantages of q
large settlement or colony, and would 60 to
the trouble and expense of thorough laying
of it out, having maps and plans executed,
and agree to offer some inducements to immi-
grants, such as building small houses or cabins,
giving thema start, donating some few lots for
churches, schools, &C., and then be ready on
hand to receive and direct the new comers
when they arrive, it would not be difficult
thing to get settlements made in almost any
part of the South. 1t would be better Of
course, to be near railroads or navigable
streams, and accessible to market If people
will go to work in some such way they can get
population amongst them that will make
the waste places blossom. >, ae,, ....
The South wonders why the tide Of ,immi-
grafton Westward connot be turned in that
direction. It can, if the South will take the
necessary steps to do it. -...
So far as we know, there is not q single
Southern State represented in this city BY an
agent whose business tits to uceimmigrants
to 60 South there is not single railroad cor
poration in the South, with perhaps one excep-
ton, that has set apart any Of its, lands for
colonization purposes, or that offers any In
ducements in transportation for settlers along
its line. ...'....,., .....r ....
The truth is that every Southern State
should have its representative here in New
York, with means enough to enable him to
compete with the West, actively engaged in
representing his State or, what would be
better, for all the Southern States to unite in
establishing and sustaining an agency here to
carry out an active programme in behalf of
the South. We will indicate further at an
other time what such an agency could accom-
plish. ... ... Il -r,-...,t, .E,..
1t is enough to say now that the destinies Of
the South are in the hands Of its own people.
They are at fault if there is any delay in de-
veloping the wonderful resources with which
their country is so bountifully blessed.
The New York South.