The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-05-26
Emig ants Heading South-the
Surplus Labor Of the North.
NEW York, March 6, 1877.

New York, March 6, 1877.
Editor of the New Orleans Times
We left Boston yesterday morning
on the New York and New England !
railroad, and arrived in this city be- |
fore 5 p. ~, about eight hours.
Through ticket from Boston t. St.
Louis S24, via Phi|adcl phia, Pitts
burg and indianapolis over tive Penn
sylvania railroad. from New York to !.
pittshurg. The line over which we
Travelled from Boston TO-. this city is
in fine condition and admirably man !
aged. We saved 81 by purchasing
our through ticket in Boston,.
There was considerable snow in
Massachusetts, only occasional bare /
spots. In Connecticut the snow has
nearly all melted, and the ice is melt
ing in the ponds and 1ivers:' Those
and ' pastures, and ic; 'sstH4k SHa'iS,d s! @
insignificant forests, and frost and
snow contract unplcasautly with the
soil, and forests, lakes and running
streams, and quiet bayou>, forests
aud climate of poor Louisiana. .
We have spent about three months
in the State Of Maine, and ah"nt
forty days in Massachusetts since
last October. And December was
the coolest of any December in Maine
for six or eight years. The weather
at times was terrific. 1t reminded us
of the days of Our boyhood. We
have seen but little of New England
winters since the winter Of ]eN.
We have learned that there is
great commotion among the laho'lns
men of New England, and probably
it extends all over til" Northern,
Middle and Western Statrs. Water
power and steam are doing most all
of the mechanical worl; OF the NORTH,
and mechanics are beginning t" i'm
dc,stand this fact. a woman or man
can spin hy machinery as much as
twenty five hundred or three thou
; sand can spin on the old.fash'on hand
! wheel. We saw one MAN tending
e eleven hundred and fifty spin1lca,
| each of which could do more than
$ twice as much as spin'lles run by
e hand. Aud this man received 81 -
| a day, and boarded himself: a few
!, women can tend an acre of looms.
One man with machinery can make
:, as many boots and shoes as 40 or OF
can make by hand. Large factories
o swallow up small competitors, and
u silence the individual spinner, weav'
Il et, shoemaker, wagon and pillow
maker, and even the house ca;pen
d ter finds that his doors, sash, blinds
flooring and ceiling, window and
; door cases a,e all made by machinery
Ic It is said that in the year 1900 bn
y one twentieth of the people OF the
e, United States lived in cities ; now
re oncffth, or ahont eight millions o
T. our population live in cities.
There has to be a new reckoning
:: and departure or thousands of mel
. and women who have plenty of mus
IN Gle, Intelligence, skill, and will to ID
" good work for themselves and th
1t country, will come to starvation
Us The mechanics and landless farmer
of the Northern States are frightened
L. and they Dire bent upon having Ian
in the South as soon as they can pos
siblt pet 1t. W. have been anon
+ tho mechanics of Massachusetts fort
"t DAYS, and have consulted with then
to and have heard them talk, and hay
seen them organizing to 60 to VII
'as giinia; Florida, North Carolina an
Texas, and we speak understanding
" about this matter. They nev'
speak of going West-the South is G
na. their brain. Emigration to the We
is at an end.
zas Their general plans are to form c"
IT onics of forty, fifty, or hundrt
nd families of farmers and mechanics
'en the mechanics to have small farms
W. 90 or 30 acres, and work at the
~; trades aud to have a water powe
possible; i'll each COLONY, and sta
ran small factories to manufactute sn
tn articles as tho large factories liza
as not crushed out. The advan tages
xas timber in the South would be II
hey mense in such cases; ard there a
ard numerous other advantages.
The We hope to 90 back to Boston a
ted New York in the mont h of April
'ns May. and help give direction to-
xas norton of the tide of emmigtat'
81 that looks toward the South 1t
ana coming, and those States that ="
ont for it to hunt UP lauds, and hunt
'n!d owners, aud learn what advanta!
'ch| they have over other States, will
row the last to be reached by that tt
no These people now call for inform
'nld ton, and light; aud truth, about
ANA tdpUs raphy and climate of tn
SO States. will Louisiana still keep
him light under n bushel' We Will
DAHL BENNETT
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