New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-19
SOUTH CAROLINA PHOSPHATE
IMMIGRATION IT'S GREATEST NEED.

A NAKED AND DESDfATE hlAlE - PkfJIDitfH
AGAINST WHITE IMMIGRANTS STILL ExIsTING-
GREATER POLITICAL TOLERANCE DEMANDED.
frRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT or THE TRBUSR.l
COLUMBIA, March 6.-The experience OF South
Carolina during ana since the is of the most
tragic episodes in history When before did mankind
behold spectacle of rich, bighspirted cultivated
people suddenly cast down. beref OF their
possessions and put under the feet OF tile slaves they
had held in bondage for centuries It was severe Do"
TO the people OF South Carolina 10 have thelr slaves
emancipated without compensation. It was as great
shock society IL OftenIcaed to endure to nave the
masters and their families, brought mp IN luxury anu
idleness, suddenly thrown back upon themselves ana
compelled in suffering and restitution TO get on a. they
best might without aptitude and without experience
THE APPALLING RESULTS OP THE WAR.
They lost everything they possessed in the shape OF
property except the soil of the State and the buildings
thereon spared from the desolation or war The banks
ruined The railroads we're destroyed. Their few
manufactures desoated Their vessels had been
swept from the and the rivers The live stock was
consumed Notes. bonds, mortgages, all the money in
circulation debts, became alike worthless The cOmmu-
nifty without clothes and without food. Every
thing had gone into the rapacous OF the Confeder
Government; vast estates had crumbled like paper
Ia fire. While the shape not wholly destroyed, the
substance had turned to ashes Never there greater
nakedness and desOlatiOn in civilized community.
Added 10 all the loss OF 1900 OF the best blood or
the State out OF voting population Of 6oOOOthe pride
Of families and the hope OF the State They had gone 70
their graves. hurried thther by the hot blast OF
Individual examples OF suffering among the oldest and
weathiest families OF the State could be given TO any
extent-each tragedy But this is not ALL The white
citizen. dazed with sudden appreciation Of his stripped
and bereft condition, when the end turned only TO
behold the extraordinary transformation OF his bond
The slave had suddenly acquired his freedom, and
A.. t...ll AL T.a.
franchised majority in threequarters Of
all the counties in the State They all at gathered
&C the polls, chose themselves TO office and under slight
guidance became its rulers and governors Amazed at
the sudden change stunned by this blow &C their pride
and power the whites looked around TO see II all
hdeous dream. They found the movement backed by
United states bayOnets and then they knew IL was
CHASTITY reality. The civilized and educated white
under foot PROSTATE and pOweress and the black
barbarian reigned its stead He relgns to-day In the
full plenitude OF overwhelming majority, and at
every point with unabridged authority There is not
white minority at the State House large enough 70 check
legislation in any VI s stages, modify it in any Of its
phases. The handful Of white representatives in the
Legislature sit mute spectators Of ts proceedings and
seem only TO witness the tight grip and reent
less hold the emancpaed slaves Keep upon the
Of their Old masters. Il the great political novelty OF
the age, most conspicuous fact Of the Shareholders
Renelhon tragedy and fate more strange than any
fiction.
THE NECESSITY OF WHITE IMMIGRATION.
The great and allimportant question for South Caro-
lima 70 canvass aud decide is this What ts sub
stanua andholdng, honest white citizens do, in the
existing emergency, 10 put end 20 the present in
famous rule OF the state 2 Our answer would be- Let
them first tx thereyesupon the great continuous
OF foreign immigration which lands 100000 people seek
ing new homes, annually shores \ body self
impeed, and almost wholly self-directed. as yet, but
which capable OF being turned, detected and changed
to a considerable degree, by efficient measures
wisely taken toward that end. No experiment has ever
been made TO what strong concerted action might
accomplish in this direction. But with such an enOr-
nous mass Of maeable material to work upon It is fair
% suppose that wise and concerted efforts would be
crowned with This the first point TO be con-
sidered The second step to dsabuse the South Caro-
lima mind ideas entertained by IL in
regard to white immigrants The state having suffered
much from carpebaggers II Is no wonder the native
population look upon strangers with suspicion But the
white immigrant OF the future is 20 recompense her for
the carpetbaggers frauds and sp0atOns. There is no
fear that he will he the side OF justice and econ
omv and good government; and much must be taken
on trus-or It his be so, much II is FOR
the resident white citizen. Only let the white mmi-
grants from all quarters be- encouraged 70 come. Let
man bother himself about the immigrants opinions. II
has been much the habit Of the old South CarOnan 10
feel the STATE in all its franchises, potentiates
and possibilities, belongs to him and to him alone,
and that IL rs for him 90 exercise sort Of surveillance
over the character and opinions OF those who would
come and opportunities. II used 10 be said in
the old days o. slavery and there is feeble echo OF the
sentiment still LEFT that South Cironians will welcome
everybody who ucnes 30 TO the state, provided
thew come 10 promote It's industrial prosperity, and leave
politics alone But all that this is an ont OF place
now. South Carolina must grow the future II she is
be redeemed and keep pace with her sister States as
those states Ow, by the introduction OF numbers and
Of wealth and enterprise from without and they must
come enoy'ng the absolute freedom from suryeil
lance and criticism that enjoyed everywhere else. In
these days OF mental activity the emant carries with
him. among his other possessions, good stock Of opiu
ions aud Il Is absurd ask him 70 lay them down az
the frontier OF any State which he proposes 10 make HIS
future residence In this respect South Carolina cannot
he permitted 70 enjoy exemption granted 70 other
civilized community on this continent, and 10 is preDos-
ferrous 70 advance suggestion OF such character II
South Carolina is % grow AMI flourish other States
grow and flourish she must obey the law Of their growth
and chcerfuy accept It's conditions The fundamental
one of all entire individual independence and entire
individual rrespousblity 70 others, and to society,
his conduct aud opinions long he is gutess Of all
Infractious OF the law.
ACTION OR RUIN TIE ALTERNATIVES.
n has long been the doctrine OF the old Slave States.
that man should be held personally responsible for the
expression OF adverse opinions certain social and
poltical que tOns This intolerance OF opinion had its
roots in the practice Of Slavery. It survives still In
modified degree, although emancipation has destroyed
all apology for t. Any assertion OF this spirit In the
present changed condition OF things is absurd. Every
man. in our day. South Carolina ana everywhere else,
must be permitted the exercise OF his right 10 the
trammeed expression OK his opinion, in decOrous terms,
on any subject whatever, without rendering himself OBJ
noxious 70 anybody or suhectng himself 10 the rehue
OF any BODY. This Is the one new thing which South
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