The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-21

HUFF southern Soldier ana Gentle
man. ''... Nalthall---A Southern Man @
! Large Mad and Enterprising Spirit
Gen. Nest--HOlly Springs---A Goo,
Word Generally.
I Corresponds &c OF Cincinnati Commercial
Emigration westward has extended
over the most fertile sections of our c0un
ny, and the frontier is now well on 10 The
verge OF the sage-brash and grassboppel
lands. The South offers a genial climate
and productive soil to immigrants
The Southern people are anxious for an
increase ofintelligent and and industrious
citizens, and welcome Northerners who
come among them to stay. They do not care
to prOlong the alterations occasioned by
slavery and the war; on the other hand,
they offer generous inducements to all
who will settle among them to develop
the country. And in this mutual compact
of labor, by the minging of interests and
the cooperation of agriculture and COM
merce, is the great problem of uni
fication to be solved. The Republic can
not be legislated into project peace, but
it can be unified by the brotherhood of
business. The broad acres of cotton lands,
and the immense forests of the South, in
wife the crowded populations Of the North
and East TO enter and to identify them
selves with the people. There is room
for capital, for labor, and for the educa-
ting forces of 1ankeedom in Dixie The
/ planter waits to welcome the mechanic,
and the landholder is willing to divide
with the farmer. These are facts, sum-
med up from careful observations We
have conversed with men of all political
parties, in the cities and In the rural dis
trlcts, and can report a general anxiety
among the Southern people to share their
heritage and unite their interests with all
who enter that section Of Tie country to
remain. The adventurer, the political
missionary, the ofice-hunter, and the
temporary legislator, pressing their way
into prominence through the manipula-
| tons Of the negro vote, are obnoxious to
the native citizenship Of the South, but
every honest immigrant, whether he be
Republican, or Democrat, rich or poor,
white or black, is met by hearty greeting.
The South is destined to rise from its
desolatiCn, to become strong in its COM
monweAlth of States, and to harmonize in
its social life, culture, enterprise and
possibilities with the most prosperous parts
Of the Union.
In company with Mr. NJ B. Hiliyard,
of McComb City, we explored the coun-
try round about, visited the plantations,
talked with the old citizens and with
freedmen, watched the currents Of opin-
ion and trade, and are we'll satisfied that
the Southern people deserve the conf
dence of all who love union and peace.
The discontents are the exceptions. The
disturbers are held in low esteem, whether
they be hot headed Bourbons or fanatical
reconstructionists. The masses are right.
They need the sympathy Of all good peo-
pie, and stand pledged to abide the ar
bitrament of arms III good faith, looking
forward to brighter days, and willing to
enter into the NOW dispensatiOn OF freedom
and equal rights as honest Americans.
At McComb City a practical experiment
has been made, bringing Northern and
Southern people into common commu-
Mon; and as neighbors, there is peace
among them. They share each others
society and confde in each other as beau
tifully as if no civil war had ever dis
turbed the country. And this is but an
illustration Of what larger communities,
churches and States, and the whole re-
public, indeed, must do, to make perma-
nent peace, and to prove the Union
fact in the eyes of the world.
Holly Springs, in the northern part of
Mississippi, occupies the highest ground
i'm the State, and the town is one OF the
most heartsome in the cotton range. On
the train thither we made the acqualnt-
ance of General T. c. Walthall, of the
Confederate army, who looked through
the clouds at General Hooker, and con
tested the ground at Missionary Ridge,
distinguishing himself even in the face OF
defeat. General WalthalPs account of
the battle of Missionary Ridge, and ofthe
transaction on Lookout Mountain, was
vivid and exciting. He is a sprightly
man of middle life-over six feet high,
straight as an arrow, with clear, keen
ewes, musical voice and graceful bearing.
As we Clided along through Central Mis-
sissippi, he pointed out broad wastes OF
unfenced lands, even within sight of
jackson, the capital, awaiting tue hand
of industry. The soil is superior for cot
ton, capable of paying its purchase price
twice over in single crop. This State
offers homes and promises rewards to all
who come to identify themselves with the
country. The soil is not so rich as that
of Illinois, but it is adapted to agrlcul-
ture quite as profitable, and is in eli
mate equally if not more eoDgenlal,
measuring the year all through.
General WalthalI represents a large
class of men in the South-men who
staked everything in the Confederate
cause, but men who have accepted the
decisions of the war as Americans-uDl-
/ fcation, emancipation and ALL These
men invite Immigration They need
/ what the North has in abundance and to
/ spare and implements OF success
! full husbandry. There is Il universal
desire to see the country brought forward
| to its best condition, socially, politically,
agriculturally, commercially-e way
! The great need in the South is the es-
! tablishment of mutual confidence between
the races ; and the great curse Is the
I interference, for mere personal emolu-
ment, of foreign politicians, who seem 10
4 live and move only to accomplish mis-
chief. at whatever cost to the manhood
or the Americanism of the people.
There are some men holding office in the
Southern States, and actually legisiating
in the capitals, whose homes are north of
the Ohio, or east of the Hudson! But
where men come South, however radical
In their ideas, however fraternal in their
intercourse with the freedmen-and come
to stay, to infuse more liberal sentiments
among the masses, to educate the colored
people, to cultivate the soil, to build
homes and to develop the State, they
are generally hailed with hearty wei
come. The Southern people are weary
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