New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-25
Southern Immigration.

Our Southern exchanges are filled with
invitations to settlers to try the soil of the
South. The tide of immigration has been
temporarily turned back from the West by
the ravages of the grasshopper, the difficult
ries of irrigation, and the excessive cold of
the winters. So the section that once was
darkened by slave labor holds out golden
allurements to men Of muscle and capital to
try their fortunes in the land of sunshine.
The Governors of nearly all the Southern
States have taken up the matter in their
messages, urging that agencies be estab-
lished at the North to turn the attention of
foreigners and men of Northern birth to the
Inducements their sections can offer. Gov
ernOr Coke, of Texas, reminds the Legis-
lature that with FAC, 900 square miles of ter
ritory, their population is only $50, 900. The
Lone Star State has but five souls to the
square mile, where New York has ninety
six and Maryland seventy two. With
a rich SOIL varied productions, superior
mineral resources, and fine climate, there
is no reason. co the Governor thinks, why
wise legislation, and liberal cOmprehen.
sive policy may not build her up into
greatness and power equal to that OF the
Northwest. Governor Stearns, of Florida,
congratulates the Legislature on the advance
and looks forward to population OF
1000 900 and an aggregate wealth OF
$500, 900 900 at the close of the century. He
takes the citizens of the State to task for
not making more widely known their ma
teral advantages of soil and climate. South
Carolina, too, comes forward into the field,
and shows that whereas Illinois, on an
invested capital of $500, U.s., 633, makes q
return of $l92. S59 900, or q little over twenty
per cent on the capital invested, the Pal
metto State has an income OF $34 ,524 on
her invested capital Of $47 ,09l, 709, or 1913
per cent on the amount invested. These
are the things that encourage the Memphis
Aralauche to predict that with the gradual
emerging of the Southern States from
wretchedness and turmoil to peace and good
government, there will be a constant tide of
immigration, not only from foreign coun-
tries, but from the Northern States" This
is a safe prophecy to make. But why does
not the tide set that way now, and what
binders that section from emerging "from
turmoil to peace p II will be safe to look
TO their own newspapers for an answer to
these questions Here, then, is the Southern,
Plantation. organ of the Changers, published
at Montgomery, Alabama, bearing date OF
the eleventh instant. Unwittingly itspeaks
to this point. 1t publishes the proceed
ings of a Joint session OF the State
ana, held at New Orleans on the
sixteenth Of January, in the form OF an
appeal to the Patrons of Husbsndry
throughout the United States. That appeal,
while disclalming political intention, takes
violently partisan ground. 1t Gays that the
people of the South are "the subjects OF
satraps," denounces the administration as
"a speculation and huge monopoly" and
begs the order to receive as Gospel truth
the Phelps-Potter report on the Louisiana
troubles, and in the same breath says that
sthe grandest soil of the continent hungers
and begs for the trusty. hardy and worthy
sons of toll in the West and North. Ihese
fery Grangers can hardly expect that the
honest farmers of the North will make
friends with such pack Of finder boxes; 1t
has aiwavs driven away immigration from
their borders. The majority Of capitalists,
farmers, mechanics and sons ct to a at the
The Democracy find their msjoritiee IN
towns and cities, and their party Is cnleny
composed Of men who never dream M OF Pay TSs
South can not afford to ignore it. There Is
q necessity which can not DO AVOIDED tns'