New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-14
VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS
HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM
COLONIZATION FROM THE NORTH
How to Maintain Loyal Government
in Louisiana.
LET NEW ENGLAND DO FOR LOUISIANA
WHAT SHE DID FOR KANSAS.

: The following letter published IN tn
Boston Commonwealth, of the sixth instan.
touches on q topic of great interest t
Louisiana. The necessity of immigration AM
new blood in the State has been agitate'
during tine past few years on many sides
its advocates only differing on the mean
to be used to induce it, its character AMI
source. The example Of Texas and tn
wonderful increase of her population ant
prosperity which rewarded her efforts ha
been often cited in contrast to the feeble
attempts of Louisiana. Even if those at
tempts had been ten times stronger thar
they were they would not have been suf6
Gent to overcome the feeling OF repulsion
which now deterSthe seeker after new
home from resting here. Most Of the emf
grafton that has been so advantageous to
Texas has passed over Louisiana, but lett no
traces of it's march. Testimony showing no
'ost-acism' existed might be piled
mountain high before the congressional
committees, and leading men of all
parishes might declare that emigra
ton was invited. but the single example of
one NAN. ''the shadow of whose noighbor
never darkened his door," would outweigh
them all. Neither the hardy Swede, the
sturdy Hollander, the thrifty and prac teal
German, or the New England farmer ex-
poets to be received into the social circle of
a new community Immediately on his ar.
rival. The word ostracism can not be ap.
| piled in such a case, for the intelligent emi.
grant would expect that acquaintance and
| intercourse would determine his status.
But it is that intercourse and acquaintance
which gives a helping hand on his arrival
that lie has a right to expect, and which he
receives throughout the West. wherever he
may come from. A community that re.
fuses him this merely because he is a
strar ger, he is compelled to regard as
hostile one, and other advantages must be
great to induce him to take the risk Louis
lana has these advantages in unequaled
profus;on in her wonderful soil, cheap lands
and glorious climate. They will not
tempt even those who have to blast open
their rocks to raise spear of grass unless
they are made known to them, but were
the advantages of Louisiana made half as
familiar as those of Texas have been, there
would be an exodus of sturdy farmers from
New England, men whose thoughts are
given to their families, their soil and their
church, and fight their political battles none
the less successfully because they use only
the ballot, which would make all Louisiana
laugh with harvest. Even the small
number of 5000 could double the present
product of the State, and when once the
would coon be stirred by an active. honest
and Industrious people of all races and
classes, true American people, whose very
presence would prevent complaints Of bad
or misgovernment, because 1t would become
impossible for them to exist, and the hope
OF Mr.. Marshall, expressed at the last ees.
sion OF the congressional committee, of good
order. peace and harmony become reality.
The letter demands and will repay
careful perusal The writer is evidently
well acquainted with his subject, and the
forclbie style in which he makes every
point shows that he is expressing his
honest convictions. No intelligent reader,
however widely he may differ with the
views set forth, can fail to treat them with
respect. Those who are IN accord with
him will find much to confirm the impress
sion that by some such means as COLOMBIA.
ton the rule of the shotgun and the lash
Of the White League may be most etfectu-
ally overcome. Then will the State NO
longer be place where men will come only
to make money and 60 away, but to remain
and identify themselves with the State, its |
soil and its people:
Especial to the Commonwealth. |
New ORLEANS, January q. 1875.
A CHANCE FOR RICH FARMS AND HOMES. |
With my present topic l wish l could |
reach the ear of every farmer and mechanic |
in New England, and, if circumstances IA |
vor it, purpose to accomplish that desire. |
One farmer from New England would do
twenty times as much good as a lawyer, but |
| can make a good beginning if l can inter-
est any in the scheme. The key note of all
this is that there is only one chance for
Louisiana to become a State fit for a loyal
citizen to live in, or to be represented as a
part Of the Union, and that chance is
enough emigration to put new blood il her,
and swamp the rebel venom with healthy |
circulation.
VACANT LANDS.
There are twenty-five millions of acres of
he richest soil in the world ready for the
blow in this State. In the most prosperous
lines not one tenth of them, according to
Governor Wickliffe's message OF 1856, were
,ver cultivated, and to-day little more than
me million produce anything more valu-
lble than cotton wood trees and coco grass.
)ne bank, the Citizens, has absorbed over
90 large plantations and has not twenty
n cultivation. These can be purchased
It much less than their value, and, if
livided into small farms, would soon be
worth ten times their cost. Those who
till run their own plantations are deeply
n debt to middlemen and factors. and. in
he face of a growing distrust of the credit
ystem that has kept them up, make no
fort to remove it. The rising generation
ave no greater ambition than to get place
ither in politics or a store. No boy is learn
ng trade Of any kind, and none with in
diligence but have learned to consider a
digestion of farming as an insult. New
orleans. Shreveport and one or two other
tiles, are absorbing most of the white. ami
ONE of the colOred population, that should !
re in the fields. That of this city is at least
ne-tourth of that of the entire State-al-
most all being non-producers. And this
tate OF thin gs is so rapidly growing worse
hat Its progress becomes apparent after a
cry short residence. The only producers
re the negroes, and their wages are so low |
Sl3 per monthly. with probability Of no
eturn at the end of the season, the political
oppression of the "cld masters" SO severe,
nd the attachement to the soil so slight.
hat they are only induced to remain By
lie ease with which the necessaries Of lie
re produced from it.
GRAND CHANCE FOR IMMIGRANTS.
Those "old citizens" who appreciA a ;he
ltuation are aware that it must go on "a