Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-12-03
Immigration t. the South.

Ilfeatly producing M ultimately good
Eefsctsii diverting the tide of1mmigra
tion to the South. There are other
causes undoubtedly at work in turning
1.-The current southwark ,butit seems that
Mt last the flow of new population
into the Southern States in large mum,
bers, which has been SO ardently de.
sired ewes since the close ofth war, is
really commencing, and with proper
attention must continue increasing.
The cry ever since the teaming popu--
lation of Europe began to seek new
homes across the sea has been "Ge
West" and of all theamillions who
have landed upon these shores. but a
comparative few have strayed off from
the solid column which forced its way
steadily westward, and pushed the ad.
vance of civilization over the Missis.
sippi river. and the Rocky mountains
to the fertile valleys and rict. table
lands Of the heart Of the continent. AT
no time were the inducements to settle
in the South favorable while the West
held out tile most promising advanta-
ges to all who proposed to make
Judgment on its soil. Indeed, before.
the war the South cared nothing for
immigration; its labor and social sys-
TEN were directlyain conflict with it,
and when the conflict came it found
one section of the country thoroughly
infused with the strength of a mighty
element which the other had contemn
ed and rejected. ..
But with the new order of things
came new opportunities and necessities
for the South. In tho Judgment of
many other wiscst friends the shortest
road to peace md prosperity lay
through tho securing Of immigration
md the peopling and cultivation of
her extensive plantations by smull far
mers who would divide them, employ
more labor and make the tilling of the
soil pay as it never did before. The
animosities left as legacies ofthe war,
unfortunate contentious that have been
almost incessant since, and thetunul-
tuuus and mischievous politicsof many
of the Southern States, have, however
acted rs al ctfectual bar against the
influx of immigrants in nhy consider
able number. But with tEeAradual
emerging ofthe Southern country from
its wrctchedncss and turmoil, and the
.elcgation ofState after State to good
government, and the rehabilitation of
thecivil authority, the attent Oh OF i'm
migrants is attracted to the openings
tor the founding of happy homes and
the building of comfortable fortunes
in the South. They each bring little
money, which combined amounts to
heavy capital, and this, no less than
intelligent and industrious labor, is
needed in the South. The system of
forming immigration colonies oftwo
or three. hundred people, and shipping
them abroad at once to some previous
ly selected location in the United
States for settlement, ought to be an
aid TO the South in filling up her waste
country. All the States have large do
mains to which they might very prof
tably ask the attention of the directors
of these immigrant colonies, under con
ditions quite as favorable as any which
could be offered from the West. There
have been already more of such colo
nies settled i'll the South than is gen.
orally known, and there is one in par
ticular in Southern Virginia which
has been so successful that is has not
only attracted people from England,
Ireland, and Scotland, Tut its sinducc.
ments even drew from Ohio some
thirty families who abandoned their
old homes, and have never had any
reason to regret their removal to new
locality. What has been done in Vir-
ginia may be repeated elsewhere in the
South on the same scale, and the infu
sion of the brains and strength of the
new corners would give an impetus to
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