The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-12-17
Immigration ia tIae South.

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While there is by no means the great
| flood of immigration into the States of
the South which the people of that section
desire, there is yet a considerable move
ment which, in time, will result in mod
| flying, and, in some respects, changing
the character of the population there.
| The presence of one hundred and fifty
| thousand Germans in Texas cannot fail,
in due time, to work great influence in
the Southwest. This small army Of
hardy and frugal Teutons has entered the
Lone Star State 50 silently, in such I'M
ceasing currents, and has scattered so
widely up and down over the broad acres,
that the Texans themselves were amused,
when, few months since, the number
of Germans in the State was announced.
A dense stream of immigration has also
been poured into Texas from the North
west, from the States Of Iowa, Illinois
and Indiana These various elements are,
one and all, aiding in the upbuilding of
giant commonwealth. 1t is observed
that the denominations of bad cooking and
worse whiskey fade away before the ex-
amples of the thrifty Germans, who show
the native Texans what variety of good
have Texas bids fair to overtake and,
prehaps, distance Missouri in the num-
Der of immigrants received.
Virginia is constantly receiving immi-
grants from the Northern States Many
of them are prompted more by the cheap
ness of the lands in the cold Dominion"
than by the necessity of migrating. The
Pennsylvania finds that by moving into
Mary and he can cheapiy buy quantities
of good land, slightly improved and the
Marylander is willing tc sell. because,
over the border, in Virginia, he finds
land cheaper, as well as better, than that
which he has just sold. SO Maryland
and Virginia are gradually changing the
character of their populations. The Nir- |
ginian is wont TO say that the Northern !
immigrant would succeed better if he |
would make more allowances for the /
climate, aud would not begin on a scale |
on which he can never finish. Virginia /
welcomes Northern immigration very
heartily; but is also glad to receive the |
hundreds of English families which have
settled in some sections of the State. |
The arrivals from England are not so
numerous as might be desired the En- |
glish generally bring goodly sums of
money, and settle in fine farming, or
stock-raising counties, where they often (
accumulate large fortunes, As soon rs /
Virginia has IA sufficient tide of immi- /
grafton to crowd the negro Il little, and /
to force him to be more provident, the /
States material prosperity will BE- fully
assured, and all classes will work har I
moni0usly together.
1t is not litde singular that two of
the remo.est of tn States, south Of NJ :
son and Dixon's line should be among
the very first to secure large numbers of /.
immigrants Flo ida and Texas are /.
each shining examples of what good adj /
vertising and proper representation of I
resources can do for a State. The char .
acter of Florida as cane and orange T.
and tropical fruit-bcaring country having I
been carefully explained to the people OF
Italy, three hundred Italian families re-
Gently migrated to the Winter ptra6ise, /
and will, doubtless, be followed by many
more. A judicious crusade in Italy and .
Sicily in IA, or of the Floridian peninsula 1
would probably result in the beginning .
af a food Of immigration which might +
attain the same proportions as that from
Germany into Texas.
The South is beginning to give very
earnest attention to this subject Of an
influx of population from the outer world. I
In some of the States the presence, or
rather the omnipresence, of the negro is
a bar to any very numerous entries of
immigrants. But there is no Southern f
State where the native people feel any
thing save the most earnest desire to
secure as many new citizens as possible /
by importation Strong tides Of immi /
grafton setting South Carolina and Ala
bama would do much to solve the prob
lem oft he political situation there. The
carpet-bag Governments never did much
to encourage the coming Of white Euro
peans into those States, because they felt
that if they did so, they would be destroy
ing the principal source of their own
perverted and shameless power.