Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-08-12
A Plan to Reach Emu
grants.
To the Editor Of the Observer.

For the past lew years TIT
South, seeing tie vital importance
of changing their. system Of labor
and falling upon some plan to in
duce immigration, have organized
immigration Associations, Indus
trial Aid Associations, large lanG
owners have offered alternate
tracts of their unimproved lands
to actual settlers; County Gran
ges, land holders, &c, have issued
circulars, Legislatures have sala.
ried State Immigration Agents,
andappointed immigration Boards,
but no efficient plan has been sue
cessfully adopted to reach the Ve-
ry Individuals qvho qUished to
emigrate. Hence all their efforts
have proved comparative failures;
the emigrants were scarce
Through a forty years active work
Ia the West and North West, l
have seen the Importance Of econ
omizing both time and money, in
working directly aoith the emf
grant HIMSELF; hence I visited
the South, in person, go l could
speak from personal knowledge.
On my retura last March, l
was so delighted, both with the
people and the country, unsolicited
and unaided, | commenced writ
ing it up.
Having Job Printing Office of
my own, | printed off a few Of
my first letters, and soma that
were sent me from the South, aud
sent copies to over 500 papers,
North, South and East. At the
close of each letter, I requested all
who were DESTROYS of changing to
a milder climate to address me,
and | would send them documents
to convince them that the South
was decidedly better place than
the Far West or Pacific States.
These were so widely published
that the result is as follows:
| now have on my books the
names of over 5000 persons, scat
tered over 20 States, Canada and
many i'll Europe, who apply for
documents relative to the South
ern States, and this list is increas
ing from. so to 100 q day. | re
printed an edition of 10000 of
these letters, and am supplying
all demands for them.
These letters, with those from
others, that | have thus widely
scattered, and have been extern
sively published in the newspa-
pers of the country, hive brought
such vast correspondence upon
me, that dozen rapid penmen
could not Gil the demand to answer
them all.
At the rate that names are
coming in, shall soon have reg
iotered on my books over 10000,
all anxious to change to a milder
climate. This may seem incredi-
BILE, but it is, nevertheless, true.
The results up to this time, have
astonished all wko have become
conversant with them. The
truth is, the times were ripe for
such movement, and the dissat-
isGed thousands at the North
were ready to listen to the truth,
with regard to the South. De-
signing demagogues, and monied,
railroad corporations in the West,
that had so long disseminated
falsehood, for political and fnan-
cial purposes, were being unmask
ed. Centennials, the mingllng OF
the editors of the North and South,
the spirit of the Decoration cere-
monies of both sections, last May,
the spontaneous outbursts in the
fraternal resolutions of public con.
ventions and the friendly greet
ings extended through the col
umns of the press of the country,
and in private letters, continually
exchanged, all have had the effect
to show the masses the true senti-
ments of both sections, and pre-.
pare the way for this great emigra
ton movement. The Centennial,
at Philadelphia, next 4th OF July,