New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-05

clear sides and three-year clds, accept Ant
distribute the medals which she awards
The Union having paid for her pork ha.
no use for her praises.
INgRENCE TIE LINE OF MASON AM
| DIXON.
The zealots of the New Orleans Time.
| propose to run anew the line of Masor
and Dixon, to SO intrench and fortify i,
as that no New Highlander shall cross it in
future. Here is the proposal TO educate
the people to sectionalism.
The most useful emigrant we in Louis
! of Mason aud DixOn's line. He is accus
TONED to the climate, his traditions are
/ identical and habits fixed. Removing from
sterile land TO more fertile regions, his con-
ditiOn would be improved but not metamor.
| phosed. knowledge of the laws, prin.
| ciples of Tho government and peculiaFlties
OF the community among whom he casts his
lot are acquired during boyhood. The
| slightest insight at once places him en- rap
port with the more intelligent Of his ne,gn.
Dors. end no measure of public policy can
be inaus urated the details of which he does
not instantly comprehend. Thousands of
/ dollars have been expended in i1uitlcss
attempt to settle the country with alien im-
migrants.
This will save those immigrants from
Missouri with which Spanish territory
Mason and Dixon had nothing to do) and
from Connecticut who are now here, but
it will prevent any other natives of the
same prescribed region from invading
Louisiana. We have, therefore, stopped
taking in men from the upper West and
from New England. This will be very
good for those who have arrived and un-
packed their carpet bags among US. The
precise phraseology Of the paragraph
quoted leaves US in some doubt whethe,
ii invites or ezpeis Southern population.
It reads: "The most useful emigrant we
in Louisiana could possibly secure was
born south of Mason and Dixon's ine."
The grammatical meaning of this sentence
would be, that il would be for the advan-
tage Of those who are in Louisiana if We
could secure the departure of citizens
born in the Southern States. We take no
exception, however, to inaccuracv Of Ian
guage when the context SO plainly ex.
presses the meaning Of the writer. The
argument is that persons born in the
Southern States are better fitted to pro-
mote the prosperity OF Louisiana than
others. It's added that thousands Of dol
lars have been expended sin fruitless at
tempt to settle the country with alien immi-
grants" 1t would, in our opinion, be I'M
wise to encourage again the --sectionalism
which has already done so much injury to
the Southern States. It would seem that
the South needs men and money. from
whatever quarter either may be had, and
that it would be in the highest degree I'M
wise to repel either whether brought by
an inhabitant of Vermont or a European
alien. Missouri was slaye-holding State,
and claims to have sided with the South.
She has been settled by Immigrants and |
developed by foreign money. Texas is a |
Southern State, and she has people by the
influx Of men and money from
Ill quarters. We can not see why if these
States can be INDUCED in importing wealth |
md strength from the whole world New |
orleans, which needs both-New Orleans
n which the white people born south of |
Mason and Dixon's line Except natives of
1ouisiana) stand to the whole population /
# both races as about one to fourteen
would stand poor show fer development
hould she trust to the exclusive choice
Indicated by the Times. The State Of
louisiana is inhabited by Southern white
in about the same proportion.
The narratives Of oppression and ruin in
louisiana which have been diffused
trough the Southern Atlantic States for
ONE years past have not tended to encour.
&c immigration from those States. The
ather incautious use of language to which
re have adverted has exposed our SUPER
outhern friends to the necessity of
laking some explanation. The mos. USE
Il immigrant into Louisiana was born
outh Of Mason and Dixon's line. Does
ae Times observe that this commits that
'urnal to prefer negro born South to
ew Highlander or a Missourian These
olored immigrants, born on the south
de of Mason and Dixon's line are COM
g, perhaps, several hundred thousand
rong. We are to Suppose the Times
oes not invite, though the language is
road enough to include them.
When, however, we connect this SUPER
outhern zeal for an extensive immigra- Z
on from the Southern Atlantic States q
it'll the recent Times article on the un-
rtunate speech of Mr.. Preston, of South | h
arolina, there would really seem some !.
ndred sentiment of restoring the Sec
onal controversies which have resulted
unfortunately for the South. And now
sneral Logan, of South Carolina, says :
Let the South cling 10 her past civiliza-
n. Let her social laws still govern her r
lzens. Let her men still preserve the | I
de of honor. Let the civilization which
based upon truth, honor, honesty, cour-
and virtue be sacredly preserved and -.
Insmitted to our p0sterity. d.
What means so complete for the pre- OF
walton of this unexceptionable though DE-
peculiar system, as combining our i'm i
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