The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-07-31

| planters and farmers Of this State in
1870, including 100000 bushels Of
corn, 100000 bushels sweet potatoes,
and other crops is estimated at S52,'
OOG, G22.
one third Of the inhabitants Of.
Louisiana reside in New Orleans and
in other towns; and, with the eXcep'
ton Of a few gardeners, they arc "o"'
pr0daccrs,
Louisiana supports more people who
produce nothing than any other South
crn State.
The white population Of this State
has decreased more since last fall than
it increased in twelve years, from 1850
to 1872.
The black population has become
greatly demorali2cd by WHISKY and
politics since emancipation, and their
numbers in the State would have de-
creased 1000 since 1860, but for the
immigrant colored laborcrs brought
from other States since 1865.
The white people Of Louisiana, as a
general thing, have become dislleart,
cncd. and multitudcs have resortcd
to strong drinks, TO cards and to lot
~tcrics, to smother, for n season, the
horrors born Of eleven years OF war
and reconstruction.
Notwithstanding the wonderful re
sources Of this State, second to none
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
intelligent white men, in city and
country, daily repeat the Responding
phrase, II would leave Louisiana at
once if had money enough TO pay my
way out otlt.'
It is stated that several thousand
me chanics, builders and artizans have
left New Orleans for Texas and other
States since last fall, and great mum
bcr5 have LETT the rural districts.
With a decreasing white population,
and multitudcs Of the industrial classes
dcmoraiizcd by strong drinks ana
other Influences
with great numbers who we're for
mcrIy wealthy now impoverished, and
the people discouraged:
with the colored field labo, Of the
State yearly becoming less efficient and
less reliable, and decreasing III mum.
bcrs;
with no efforts to increase our white
rural population, or to bring new men
to occupy and cultivate these $4,000,
900 acres Of idle lands;
With old fields to the extent Of q
million acres, that once yielded golden
harycsIs, now growing up into weeds
and bushes, and young forest trees and
wild vines;
With crops Of staple products and
brcadstulis, and the number Of our do
mcstic animals, yearly decreasing
Oar tables, and Il portion Of the
cribs OF ON horses and mules, supplied
by Western farmers at an immense cX
pcnsc;
The brains of large numbers Of our
people Of all classes and colors. en-
banned in strong drinks, their means
wasted, and their bodies and minds
wrecked;
a third Of the population OF the
State shut up III New Orleans and IN
other towns rs consumers, and not Il
seventh Of our people following the
p'ow and working the hoe;
with taxes so enormous that they
are deemed but yearly instaIlmcnts on
conliscatcd property
with these and other self evident
but untold facts equally appalling, like
ghosts and collins rising up ID meet us
in our business paths from day to day,
who 90 blind as rot TO be able to see,
or comprehend the character Of the
maladirs that are consuming New Or
leans, and the State and the people?
Aye, truly. And not only New Or,
leans ana Louisiana, but other com.
munilics and States nearer than the
Gulf OF Mexico to the reader of this
article, are consuming hourly by the
same maladics. But what is the rene
dy for these evils p? The Banner has re-
itcratcd it time and again. 1t is lin
migration" Colonel Dcnnett to the
people Of Louisiana repeats it emphati-
cally-" immigration" lie insists that
immigration may not only cure, or
greatly palliate most Of that States
maladics, but make it more prosper
Gus and wealthy than cvcr. "To
whom,' he askS-and the question APP
plies to Tennessee as well as to Lou
isiana--
To whom can our land holders sell
their millions Of acres Of untitled lands
if not to immigrants?
Without Il large addition 20 the white
producing population Of this State,
what will prevent the best lands Of
Louisiana from dcprcciating in their
MAJ ct value until they will not sell for
a dollar an acre, and from being swal-
lowed up in taxes?
What are the most fertile lands of
this State worth without labor? They
are worth nothing.
This tells the whole story. Without
labor, lands, 0 anything else in a
State nor any country on the surface
Of this planet, is worth anything, La
Dor brings capital-crcatcs it. Men
are money, irrespective Of the com