Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-16
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COLONIZATION.

For the YorkvIIe Enquirer.
COLONIZATION.
am glad to say to the people of my dear
native State that the prospects for rapid in
crease of population in South Carolina are
Frightening every day. My plan from the
beginning of my immigration work was to
introduce into the State well-todo families,
and not simply "hand" or single "laborers."
1 desired the people to settle families as a
general rule and where this plan was adopt
ed, the result is much better.
There were so many injurious reports against
South Carolina, that only stern necessity
caused the families, now doing we'll in the
State, to emigrate to the State, last winter.
At first, therefore. we did not get a fair SAM
pie of people. But as the State becomes bet
ter known, the class of immigrants will con-
tinually become better.
I have been here in New Y York for one week,
where 1 have re6pened my Office, and begun
to strike for higher class Of immigrants.
The result is most gratifying to me- 1 put
cards in the New York Herald and the Sun,
and my office is crowded from morning till
evening, with people who are anxious to emf
CRATE. The following is the notice which 1
inserted in these papers:
"The Palmetto State immigration Agency
has settled hundreds of families in the Pied
mont district of South Carolina, aud now de-
sires tailors, use-carpenters painters, black.
smiths and tradesmen Of every kind, who will
be furnished with places and employment in
Greenville, Spartanburg and other places, on
the great Piedmont Airline Railroad, where
lands, mines, water powers, and everything
can be bought cheap. References required.
Call at 166 Hudson street, corner of Laight,
or address the Agent, at same place"
This has brought in various tradesmen, Of
6cers of the Trades Unions" capitalists, &C.,
many Of whom will 60 with me, paying their
own expenses. They will be able, with the
cooperation of our people, to set up and do
business for themselves and many of them
will buy property.
Now it does seem that it is not necessary for
me to beg my own native people, whom am
trying to serve, to aid Inc in this great work.
1 do not ask for salary, an appointment
from some humbug society, nor for subscrip-
tions, nor anything of the kind. I want my
people to help ME to locate and settle these
people where they can get business and do
we'll. 1t will not cost much for leading public
men in each community to write letters telling
me where lands can be bought or rented
where mechanics, carpenters, &C., can be EN-.
ployed-in fact, any thing or any place which
will add another good citizen to the commu-
nifty.
desire now to ask each South Carolinian
to do his duty, and that at once. This busi-
ness is costing me great sacrifice, and the
property owners and the commonwealth are
to be the gamers.
1t was very unfortunate that certain papers,
and other parties, have attempted to battle
my work down. For time, their attacks in.
jured me and cost me several hundred dollars.
But my work is before the public, and, though
my spirits and credit are some what shattered,
I am in the field for bold campaign this
fall and winter.
Another thing has discouraged me. If big
sounding scheme, in the hands ofsome foreign
er, from Castle Garden, or some other ringed
source, appeared with some new proposition to
humbug the people on the immigration SUBJ
ject, his circulars, and announcements, with
free editorial pufs, were gratuitously publish
ed in all the papers; but if /, poor prophet
in my own country, applied to some of these
papers, must pay for every line, and then
probably see my plan badly criticised in the
same number of the paper. The plea was
that, "it's no body but - and his scheme
is his own. 1t is endorsed by no Grange or
Taxpayers Convention" Woe unto that
South Carolinian who ever attempts to walk
in my foot steps in trying to serve his country.
But, having put my hands to the plow, I
shall not yet look back.
lam sending this communication to various
papers in South Carolina, not to complain, or
to justify myself, or to monopolize their pu6s;
but to ask them to aid me, and all others, who
attempt to do a fair and honorable business
in this colonization work. am now ready
to receive orders for people of all kinds, trust
ing to hear, as soon as possible, from those
who desire to cooperate with me.
Truly, for my people,
TILMAN R. GAINES,
166 Hudson St., New York.
July 9th, 1874