The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-03
| OLUMBIA, s. G.
Sunday Morning. May 8. 1874.

sunday morning, may 3, 1874.
Mutuniity Between Land-holder and
Immigrant.
The communication of Mr. John
White will arrest attention. He is q
ruddy young Englishman, with cleo.
head, ready hand and vigorous purpose.
He comes to cast in his lot amongst us,
and naturally desires the advancement
Of the country which he designs to
make his home. At a glance, he takes
in the situation. It. may be summed up
and included in the statement, that We
havo land of all lands the pride in fer
tility. climate and abounding resources.
To do it justice, to develop it as it de.
serves, we need men with some capital,
large or small. either money. brain,
muscle or enterprise. We need men
who can work and think, who con both
plan and carry plans out. The land is
waiting for just such men, and Mr..
Wintle informs us, as we knew other.
wise, that they are anxious to come.
Will the land-holdera encourage them to
do 80? Will they let them have their
lands on long time and at moderate
prices2 Are they ready to promote the
rearing Of stock of all kinds, to oncou-
rage manufacturing. to diversity crops,
so as to supply tho country with com.
forts. to furnish new and profitable en-
ployments, to prepare for a new popula-
tion. having such wants as civilized and
cultured men feel? Will they embrace
and act upon the idea. that this State
needs development in hundred useful
and beautiful ways? Will they go fur
ther, and reoognizs the rights OF men
who come to supply their present needs,
and hold out the promise Of many larger
prospective advantages, by frankly and
promptly conceding to them, in turn.
such advantages as it is ia their power
to bestow? Will they settle them on
tho land which they themselves cannot
use, by CONCESSIONS of a suitable num-
bor OF aores to each?
These are questions which practioal
and sensible men will agree are upon
us for just and satisfactory answers. An
immigrant brings his talents. his skill,
his means, his habit Of work, his earnest
purpose, his faith in the country, his
hopes of its future prosperity, to be in
part achieved by himself. while strug-
Cling to better his own condition. The
land-holder should meet him hali way,
and seek TO ntilizs for himself and the
community all the good that is in him,
by smoothing his wny, by the friendly
grasp of the hand, and by supplying
him with foothold upon which he can
securely stand now, and fair field for
his continued exertions in the future.
Nothing can be trner than what is i'm
piled by the heading of the article we
publish, that in helping others, we are
really and truly helping ourselves. AS
the heaven-descended maxim, "Know
thyaelf." may be considered the com
pendulum of all knowledge, so a regard
for the just rights of others, beyond
what the letter Of law or force of usage
have prescribed, may be accepted as the
surest guarantee of ones own, and
when working generally in q commu-
nifty. the sursst basis OF it's prosperity.
Only by reciprocation of good will, by
kindly Offices freely interohanged be-
tween the new men who come to us and
the class who own and control the land
ed interest of South Carolina, can the
problem OF her redemption and reco-
very to permanent prosperity bo sue.
oessfnily solved.
Pity tho SORROWS, &c.