The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-25
COLUMBIA, S. c.
Wednesday Morning, June rs. 1873.
Immigrants Upon Fair Terms.

1neuLS Ia u1S correspondence ltOm VIII
miugton, in this mornings PHOENIX, is
serious one. # there is any one thing
more needed than another in South ca
solina, it is immigrants OF the right GLASS.
Tho country is bare OF population, and
stagnant from the want of means, enter
prise. industry and muscle. Our agri-
culture rams too exclusively in one chan
mel. We plant cotton and corn, and risk
everything upon them. moro especially
the latter. With different population,
Or perhaps, VIC should say, with the inlu-
sion Of some new elements. we should
have change OF policy In this respect.
Instead OF being as now the exception.
grain and root crops would come into
vogue, to the extent, at least, of supply
ing our own demands, and keeping up
fair proportion of stock. It is difficult,
however, to get out of these old ruts.
Again, we have many inducements to
engage in manufactures, but in this, too.
VIC are shackled b, habit. The country
;s kert bare. drosry and uninviting. in
consequence of the almost exclusive cul-
tivation of cotton, and blindness to
the advantages and attractions of manu-.
featuring. Under such circumstances,
not to speak of tho disgusting political
condition, men who respect themselves
fail to see inducements to come here.
And yet suoh men are needed to help
sustain decent government, and to i'm
prove the condition OF society. AS things
are, improvements cannot go on. En-
terprise and industry, refinement and
taste languish amongst US, and govern
ment is mockery and disgrace. Relax
alton Of principle Is daily extending. and
men are too rapidly becoming Indifferent
to those restraints, which were formerly
OF binding force. Such is the effect Of
the peculiar circumstances in which we
haze been placed and are kept by the
public opinion OF the Northern States,
and the course towards us Of the national
administration. The young men OF the
country and boys just growing up, are
getting used TO. and by .and-bye will
come to like, the present demoralized
state OF things. Growing up with it.
many will not understand what travesty
it is on good government. what mise
rable carica.ure Of genteel society. It
is therefore, the universal desire. in all
Intelligent quarters, that we shall nave
fresh accessions to our population. It
would act as check on the tendency to
degradation, and be valuable as an auxi-
liary to any real improvement in the
country. and largely assist in making
our condition more tolerable. In
word, it is indispensable to any further
progress, and unless we get it, society
will continue to retrogrsde and go down.
Weshould regard any publication which
sstforth the true advantages OF our soil.
climate. water power, railroad system,
location, crops, seasons, the statistics of
health, &c.-a work, in word, which
would give u representation of things as
they 0ro-as timely aud likely to do
much good. But to produce proper
and lasting effect. it should in no way
deal IN exaggeration. A plain, unvar-
nisEed tale, q correct picture of the
country, calm statement Of the case
just as it is, with perhaps proper expo
sition of the beneficial changes which
could be easily introduced, and would
be likely to follow from al influx Of irr-
migrants, would do more good than all
the exaggerations that could be indu'ga;.
IN. The extravagant statements madc il
the publication which Col. Aiken no-
ticos, but which we have not seen, arc
calculated to do harm, rather than good.
We have fine country undoubtedly, II
genial clitaate, soil which generously
responds 10 The labors, skill and inte!i.
gent industry Of man; but it is not, by
any manner of mems, the El Do,Mlo
which the publication alluded to makes
it, But we leave Gov. Scott and Mr..
Chadwick to the tender embraces Of Col.
Aiken. with the advice to them not to
nile no the onony go hioh hereafter uor