Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-10
CALIFORNIA.
Captain Gift TO Our Jackson Cores
pondent-The Heather Shinee VS..
The African.

NAPA, July 2S.-Notwithstsndin
your determination to fight California, |
must nevertheless admire your fair-play
in giving me place for reply. Just now
beg TO be allowed to turn my attention
to the gentleman from Jackson, Ten
nessee, who wrote you letter several
weeks ago in reference to California and
myself. Unfortunately I have mislaid
the paper, and therefore must trust to
my memory TO recall the POI ITS attempt
ed to be made against US. The Chinese
he urged as q great curse snd drawback
uDOn California on account Of their will
iEg0ess to work for low wages which
pIeCiuded the white m8G from employ
melt. Suppose l were 10 admit The
charge as true, that an ignorant, deb8sed
race is a great Getriment to q cOmmu-
nifty especially when that race is shift
less, lazy and dishonest; suppose l
should admit that, and say further that
such race when clothed with the fran
Chise is not only detrimental 10 3 cGm-
muIity but dangerous, and then should
cite the condition Of several Of the SOUTH
ern States, in which a large proportion
Of the population belongs to this class,
and where industry is psraIyzed, and
trade at a st6nd-still, don't YOU thinE [
would answer you? II you can put up
with the lazy, ignorant, voting negro,
We can surely get along with the indus
tTiOus, frugal and nOn-voting China
man. When you have pluckeG that ne
gTO-bealn out Of your own eye, then We
will give you leavetO look after our Chi
nese mOAt. know that | shall be told
that the negro is to be a good fellow af-
ter this, that the carpetbaggeTs have
Heretofore put sll the deviltry
in him; but now, since he has
sought better advisers be will
be better. Nonsense. He will pass
from one set of demagogues to another,
who will use him to carry out their vi
cious purpOses-make him the catspaw
with which to transfer TO their pockets
the little surplus wealth produced in the
country. l do not advise any man to
come to California, much less do coun-
sci persons to leave the homes OF their
birth; but l do say that q man should
give the question thought before he de-
nberately elects to plant his progeny in
community which contains African
element in quantity sufficient to form q
political power. The evils to come TO
such community are not to be num-
bered, and the prudent man will rather |
retire in time and while he has the abil- |
ity so to do, than stay to become a vic
tim to unhesrd-Of woes. What hope
has poor Mississippi, with the negro |
element in majority? Not q ray. She |
will go back and back, until she be-
comes a wilderness, and the voudoo |
man will be the highest in authority, |
The next point raised was that our lands |
are all settled and occupied, and are at |
high prices; and this valley Of Napa |
was brought forward as proof. Upon |
that head l could have much to say il It |
were necessary. IL a man should 90 to |
the bluegrass region Of Kentucky, or |
Maury county, Tennessee, looking for |
cheap vacant land, you would think |
him q fool, wouldn't you? Now, then, !
why should you look for cheap lands in |
this valley, which hiss advantages over |
the choice localities lSst named? We |
have a climate all the year round equal |
to theirs in the delicious DAYS of fall: we |
have q soil which will produce more than |
theirs, and variety Of products thew can
not compete with. Wecan beat them at |
small grain or corn, and we can beat |
them at stCck-TsisIng, which is their |
pride. And in addition we can, and do. |
produce wines equal to those of the /
Rhine or the sunny slopes of France, |
and fruits in quantity and quality I'M |
heard Of elsewhere. And when we |
come to show country, show improve
ments in houses, barns, and other things |
which go to indicate wealth and TASTE of |
B rural population, l challenge you to
bring fJrwRld another spot in the Union
superior to ours. Thanking our valley
are two ranges of low mountains, up the |
sides Of which and IN tie cSnOns you
will find many residences of San Fran
cisco men who come here TO spend the
summer out of the cold. AS matter
IF course land is dear which possesses all
.hese advantages and is within three |
hours Of the metropolis Of the Pacific. !
We have places in this valley finer than
General Harding's "Bellemead,D and
re have country houses finer than any
suburban residence about your city! This
2 not s wilderness by any means This
g thickly settled, highly improved
country, which is Tgducing choice
vines and raising lace hOI5es. l. YOU |
Tish cheap yeJ productive lands, 90 TO
he counties on the east side OF the San
Joaquin valley. There you will get all
he cheap lands you want and as much
IS you want. Lands can be got IN the
Kings river country now II ten dollars
n ecrs, with water for irrigation. In
wenty years the same lands will be
worth fifteen times that much. But il
8 country remote and thinly settled
md therefore not as desirable e. this Of
'urs, where VIE have admirable schools,
Lurches snd society. Land Is high
lere, but it Is worth al and more than
2 ASKED for it. G. W. GIFT.
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