The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
w,su,NeroN. Sent. 8. 1877.

advises immigrants to go South rather
| than West, and offers strong arguments
in favor of its views. But location South
like in the West is matter requiring
most careful and prudent examinations
and comparisons prior to purchase and
removal. The climate, the soil, the
people, and conditions affecting health
are all totally different from tiose OBJ
| tanning either North or West, hence the
necessity of care and prudence in selec-
ton of home. The very things which
| give the South such decided stiffness
and improvident characteristic IN the
majority of places its one horse OF
mule pillow, the patch of corn, and whole
sale lack of energy and thrift are often
consequences of climatic causes which
will act as imperatively upon the North
ern man as the Southern. and will as
necessarily subdue the one as the other.
We would say, as rule, and our judg-
ment is formed upon many years OF OBJ
servation as an army officer and civilian
| in various Southern States, that their
elevated regions offer the best and surest
| advantages to the immigrant. They are
| healthy. All kinds of fruits grow readi-
| lv and above all various kinds of grasses
| abound and stock can be reared and
grow as easily as in the North. Not one
| immigrant in five can succeed upon
| n Tor VIII
| staple product be cotton or peanuts,
which will not produce spontaneous
| grasses, and yet outside of the so-called
| Piedmont Region, which covers the
elevated and mountainous portions OF
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina,
Alabama and Georgia, there is hardly
an acre that will naturally grow blade
of grass. Upon such farms a northern
man proves as helpless as a ship without
a rudder, for grass is his sheet anchor,
and by it only can impoverished farms
be enriched and kept in proper state OF
fertility, fertilizers and manures in gen.
eral farming are impossibilities. Hence
failure will be the rule in one section of
the south while in another by cautious
conducting of farming operations sue
cess viii be attained.
Rest assured that wherever a slave
was grown an impoverished soil will be
encountered, and that years of most
careful management will be requisite to
bring it into good condition. Remem-
Der further that there are shrewd observ-
ing men everywhere in the South who
are thoroughly alive to all that will give
them greatest pecuniary benefit and
| their customs odd and senseless as they
may appear to the newcomer, are most
likely to be founded on soundest judg-
ment and observation, hence the immi-
grant who hoots at the one horse or bull
tongue4 pillow or other apparently slip
shop agricultural implements, and who
fancies he can at once introduce North
ern modes of farming will in nineteen
cases out of twenty reap most disastrous
failure, and abandon the South in dis
gust. Yet had he exercised ordinary
prudence, and varied experimentally
only from his sensible neighbors he
would in time have reaped success. We
would say to the immigrant, never buy
| Southern land upon the representation
of real estate agents. Go and look and
compare for yourself by talking with the
people and hearing their views as to the
value of this soil or that. The South
ern farmers, if you go quietly among
them, will always give you an honest
Judgment. The interested real estate
agent is untrustworthy, South as he is
in the great West, and will as surely de-
ceive you in the one place as in the
other. Deceived by real estate agents
can truthfully be written upon the tomt
stones of thousands IN the West, and the
5 South is no exception in furnishing
2 sharks to feed upon the credulous.
! Keep away from them in the South
Never expend all your capital in buying
. lands because cheap. Go cautiously and
i locate where grasses grow spontaneously
With these cautions in mind we believe
the great mass of Immigrants to the
| South will succeed while otherwise will
t fail.
: TREASURY MATTERS.
All who have had intercourse with
| Assistant Secretary Mccormick expires:
deep regret at his proposed retirement
He is possessed of great executive abil
ity and is capable of dispatch of bus
mess that reminds one of Secretary Stan
f ton during war times though without thu
latter's brusqueness and austerity O
manner which rendered him so object
, ionable to those who had to meet him
Mr.. Mccormick finds his duties irksomt
and trying to the highest degree and hi
, proposes to engage in some private
capacity where the strain and worr,
will not be SO great as in the Treasury
Solicitor Raynor has been srraignet
before our Police Court and fined so
for an assault upon Mr.. Soteldo, the
managing editor of the Republican
We have no words of extenuation fol
him as his conduct was wholly inexcus
able and 1InuOrtbr of q ,,pl,l;o oA,oor