The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-02-21
EMIGRATION.

'ant question presented to our peo
pie for solurion. We have the finest
country the sun ever shohe upon,
Our land rich and fertile; our climate
salnbrious, and adapted to the FRO
duc,ion of almost any kind of grain
plentiful haryests can be made TO re-
pay honest labOr-but the laborers,
or the right kind of laborsrs are no,
to De found We want them. We
snnst have them, or rnin financially
and POLITICALLY, will be orr fate.
What kind of emigration We need
ana how it should be ob.ained-ar,
he serions questions, presented tc
pur people for solution. We have
now to depend npcn the demoralizeI
labor of the negro. Who by bis in
dolence and worthlessness, robs our
homes, and by lis vote deprires us
of our l.bei The negro rs labor
er and voter, sits like an incubus mp
on our rosperiiy. We have tried
he experiment. with him, and it has
most signa!ly failed. We have work
ed him every way. For wages, fo,
an interes. in the crop.shave rented
he lnnd to h,n. He has most sig,
nal.y failed rs producer. Aud be-
sides the amount of negro labor in
'be country is inadequate to till the
vast amount of land, that We have
open and ready for tillaga. Eniera-
ton, white emigration is the onl,
thing, that will save us people, from
ruin and degradation.
Such emigration, while it would
stimulate the negro to labor faithful
", would at the same time control
his Influence POLITICAL, in our midst.
From the worn out lands Of North
aud South Carolina, Georgia, Ala.
bama and Mississippi, such emigra
:"n can be obtained, if sought for III
I proper manner, and proper indnc :
ments held out to them to- come.
amongst ns.
We mnst bnild churches an,!
school houses. Tor without these you
cannot prevail upon them to come.
We must redeem our country from,
H-atheuism be fore we hop L
for enlightened Chris til an en-
Ieration. We must redeem @ r
country from the 1evelling infin-
ences of Radlc;lllsm, by building
school houses. and by encouraging
education. TIE first question tina,
he homes. Yeoman from the East
viii ask, when proposition is made
% him to elnigrate with his stalwer'
SOUS uud graldspns, after he has
listened toa glowing and truthful
description of the land and climate.
Mill b-, have you churches wherein l
can worship God9 Have you school
houses and good schools in WHICH
my yonng ones can be educated? II
yon tell him no, he will reject the
most fattering propositions yon can
make him. if ynn tell him that the
negro alone derives the benefit from
our public school system, he will re-
fuse TO accept any terms you may
offer him. Let us then be alive to
onr own interests. Let u@buitd
churches, and schools will follow in
their wake. Let us prepare orr
country to receive the honest, intel
Iisent and Christian Iaborer, and he
will come to us. He will settle with
rs, and make our Wilderness bios
som rs the ruse." People Of Rapides
onder these questions, they are OF
sital interest to yon now. Think OF
what inestimahle benefit they will
be to yonr children hereafter. Hest.
tate not to plant the acorn, which
vii furnish shade to yonr children,
and grand children
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MARRIAGE OF A BROTHER AMI
SISTER To EACH OTHER. Some time
ago one of the asA lums opened f",
the reception and detention of truants
and delimQnents, in New York City