New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-25

no povsr of speech Of votes can proven
second decision Of the question first ap
pealed to arms, and now demanding q ne,
trial at the ballot box. End as it may
we should dread the effect of this nev
trial upon the South and upon the nation
THE INDUCEMENTS OF IMMIGRATION
The motives which impel subject of
European government to emigrate t.
America are mixed He wishes home O
his own, with subsistence and employment
for his children. The change Of political in
stitutions, except SO far as they may affec
this primary object, would rarely determine
the emigrant. We may infer that thu
new conner to this country would seek frs
a healthy location, secondly soil or 6
society where his knowledge of agriculture
or of trade would avail him. He would
naturally desire to be convinced that he
would never be disturbed because of his
political or religious opinions, or because
Of his previous nationality.
1t is in consequence of the first con-
sideration of employment that the Eu.
ropean emigrant prefers to immigrate
| upon the isothermal line Of those crops
and occupations to which he has been &C.
customed. He finds at the West large
bodies of lands with government titles
and fxedsprices. He finds there the social
institutions to which he is accustomed.
There is an immense influence of persons
and corporations interested in the sale
and settlement Of these Western lands. It
would not be an excessive estimate to say
that there are eighty million ceres Of this
land on sale by railroad and other cor
porations and in private hands. When
these powerful corporations, aud even
Western and Pacific States, have agencies
in Europe for the purpose of securing i'm
migration and sale of lands, is it, we ask,
reasonable to suppose that they will in
struct these agencies to recommend the
lands Of Louisiana in preference to their
own?
1t is known that these agencies have
taken every opportunity to contradict the
representations of those who within a
few years past have represented the Lou
isiana Board of Immigration in the Ger
man and French territories.
It should be remembered that this which
we may mildly characterize as contest
for political principle or political Office, is
represented or regarded in Europe as a
civil war, because it is accompanied with
incidental acts Of violence. We pub
lished q few days since the statement Of
Johann Albers, of Bullenbergen Field,
parish of Zetel, amt varel, Oldenburg
He alleges that on the twenty third Of De-
cember last he arrived at New Orleans,
with his wife and six children, aged from
one to thirteen years; that he went the
next day to the home of his brother-in-
law, in the parish of West Feiciana;
that on the fifth of the present month
himself and family were awakened
BY loud knocking at the door;
hat they were driven and dragged from
he house by masked men with guns and
pistols; that himself and his brother-in-
aw, W. c. Kruse, were beaten, and his
wife ill-treated. The houses and out
houses were burned, and these poor
people have "lost all, and have been APP
,licants for relief from the German Immi-
grant Society of this city.
Such a statement as this Endorsed by
he German Immigrant Society here, will
10 much to deter German emigration to
,ur State. 1t may be adopted by our
ivals of the West and employed to in
rease the disinclination of Germans to
liant themselves among a population
which, since the late war in France, has |
10 love for the Germans.
The cruelty and intolerance of which
hese poor strangers complain, whether |
rue or not, must have in the skillful |
lands of our rivals a very powerful in |
luence
It is very difficult for party to reclaim
IS political bloodhounds, but the terror
SIN which may be useful to restrain The !
olored voters and drive Republicans from
be State my become indiscriminate and !
rive away Innocent people who, like this
'oor German and his family, have not
'een among us long enough to acquire
ur language, to comprehend our politics,
r to indicate the way in which they will
ote, after tho man shall have been here
ong enough to acquire the rights of citi-
en- and voter.
Did we take purely party view of this
LEGGED outrage, We should see in this
Intolerance an exclusion Of white labor.
lid we look at the industrial necessities
f the planter, we would observe the
Importation of colored laborers, who are
lso voters. These two considerations
oint to the continued ascendency of the
republican party, while the persecution
f Republicans promises to place the re-
ults Of the war again in issue.
We prefer, however, the prosperity of
he State to any advantages to be derived
ON source so deplorable. The people
Feliciana have already taken the alarm
/ the damage these outlaws have inflicted
pom the values of property, and repudi-