Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-30
A nAGkIFICENr sPECuLATIoN


There is but one effective mode, as
everyone knows cognizant of the rela-
tons Of races-red, black and white-ot
Inducing immigration. White foreign
laDorers viii neither compete nor co
operate with blacks in the same field or
on the same farm. 1t is needless to
psoffer homes to Europeans in Central
Africa. The whole of the black CONT
Hent, rich in every resource of wealth,
las been open to the incursions of white
civilization for three thousand years.
Nature dug a chasm between Europe
and Africa deeper and broader than the
-Icditerranean, and no human power
viii ever bridge it with signs, or force,
OF gold. Products of miscegenation
are incapable of reproduction,
and degradation and vice, like
Wendell Phillips exalted philanthropy,
are incapable Of effecting unity or Of
begetting homogeneity. There are
Southern States, therefore, which must
be all black OF all white, and Linc5ln's
philosophy, as borrowed from Seward,
reaches further than either of these
philanthropists ard statesmen dreamed.
If natural laws demanded assent to the
assertion that The Union must be all
slave or all Free" it is equally true that
Jne several States must be all white or
al black. One race or the other must
have unquestioned supremacy. Recog-
nizing this simple fact, as well illus
tlated in recent Southern elections
when two races voted as such, and not
ss political thinkers, why not base upon
this idea a plan Of immigration. We.
have seen, on every Southern
plantation and in every village and farm
how utterly impossible the task of in
ducing whites Of any nationality to
dwell sandwitched with blacks. Immi-
grants from no cline or country will
bdy farms in the midst of dense black
populations. What mailman would
tine Caucasian be deemed who would not
prefer q home in Nova Zembla to one in
IimbuctOo or South Carolina? In fact,
ii is either true that this and other
Southern States are to be made unin-
abitable for whites and the exclusive
property Of negroes, or some effective
mode Of attracting immigrants must be
employed to defeat the aims Of those
who so hate whites that they
would destroy both blacks and
whites by compulsory collocation. !
Ia the absence Of any effort at black |
colonization in Mexico-New or Old-by
which whites may be attracted into
these Southern States, because negroes
are removed, it would be very well to |
resort to a scheme by which Europeans
and Northern people may be drawn into
tsle South, despite their antipathy to
cuIloeation with blacks. Let us organ |
ize q joint stock company, and buy ten |
or twenty miles square OF the best dis
trict on one Of the Memphis railroads.
Owning the whole tract, we can control
the character Of population who buy
small farms, into which the tract is to
be subdivided and sold on ten years
time. By this means immigrant
farmers wiz be readily attracted
aud by none other. A town site on the
railroad, reserved by the Land Com
pany, would pay well, and enormous
profits, at present prices Of land in West
Tennessee, would be realized. A col
ony, once established, would attract
accretions by its own inherent forces.
Every letter that went east or 10 Eu-
rope would draw immigrants, and they
WHO conduct the scheme, enriching
themselves, wiz become the country's
greatest benefsctors. Other like organ
izations would grow out Of this, ard
centers Of white population, inaccessi-
ole to blacks in large bodies, would be
established everywhere in the
south. There is no other
means Of defeating the designs Of those
who propose to convert certainly the
Gulf States into African provinces to
be pIundered and taxed and produce
cotton forever, in semi-savage barbaT-
ism, for the aggrandisement Of the
East.
A commission win leave Bremen