The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1873-11-05
From the agricultural Journal.
LETTER FROM PROF. KERR.
IoSnoN. Oct. ,. lS1a.

tOSbOS, sfct. Z, 1919.
Mr. Editor: My last week Of two Of
waiting in vienna wns TOO much occupied
with getting my N. q. matters in shape
70 cave. 10 permit the writing. as intend
81. Of third letter. giving some general
yiew. Of the Exposition as a whole. |
Iound IL necessary 10 publish ID German
another descriptive paper on North t'aroli-
M. and made arrangements to distribute
~. 900 copies.
| agreed with Cspt. Bingham last win
ter. in general in bis views Of the destiny
of the English language aud the propabii:
y Of eyerybody's adopting il soine day.
But. after my 6bsersatiDDs 10 Eurupe.
think We shall have to postpone the even,
to some future Geological age. The Eng
lish u the most unknown Uf Eufopesn Iai !.
gnages At Vienna. You hear. in days
stroll through the buildings. German.
Ffcneh. Italian, Hungarian. Polish, Rus
sian, Arabic, &c. aud will see newspapers
ln all these tongues At the Cafes, but Tout
side Of the American aud English depart.
meats The English Is scarcely heard at all
And ii one does not understand German.
he is addressed in French. and il he does
not know that, he Is tried with Italian. &C..
the English not thought Of till an other pos
sibilitics are exhausted. So. | Published
in German. and wish | could have pub.
lishsd in several other EurOpcan languages.
We must look Tor emigrapis 90 South
Germany. Hungary and Switzerland, chief.
ly, and secondly TO toe Rhine tErencIi)
PROVINCES Of Germany. We can get them
from these regions without much troab 0.
beyond showing them lhS way and making
shcm acquainted with the characteristics
aud conditions Of the country.
The Italians and the French are not an
emigFating sort Of people. aid they are not
the sort Of people We want il n Z. The
Italians are generally poor farmers. espc-
cially in the middle Gnd southern portions
Of the peninsula; and they have been 30
long under the baIcful shadow of the Ro-
man Upas of political and ecclesiastical des.
potism thst they are the mos, hopeless ma.
tsrial outside Of China to make free Anle-
ricsn citizens of. The North Italians are
better. but o. them only the poorest would
ennglalc. and we do not want that sort. !
took run VI few days through that
country. and will giyo you at another
time some account of their peculiar agricuI.
ture
The French we do not want for similar
reasons. The better class of the French
are too much attached 10 their osn coun-
try and lis peculiar institutions 10 leave IL.
and the Canadian French are mn illustration
Of the sort Of citizens tho emigratiDg por.
ton ofthem will mike. The Swiss sad the
IIungarians are the best material Cor our
purposes on the continent
As 10 the general results Of Tho N. G. ex-
position. We wore too late. of course. "
compete for prizes aud notices u that sort.
but We will probably got an official recogni-
ticn YET. That, however. isa small mat
ter. We have set before some hundreds ol
thousands Of the most intelligent people VI
all the uatiouaIiiies Of Europe the promi,-
eut facts gbout our region. IN such shape
and under such conditions that they cannot
fail TO understand aralio accept them. The
seed Is sowu broadcast. Il will yield 4
harvest. u zoe cure toreapif. The cdriosi.
" Of the immense crowds that throaged th'
Exposition. IN regard to America, and eve
rything American. was very great and yer,
evident. We have not satisfied Il, bat "