The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09
Political Advantages Of Emigration to
the South.

Mr. y. b. Clymer, IN tne CINCINNATI
Enquirer, makes an appeal to the young
men of the North and West to turn their
eyes in the direction of the Southern
States, to find pleasant homes, profitable
occupations and superior advantages in
every re pect. Mr.. Clymer has travelled
extensively during the last two months
in the, Southwest, and refutes the mali
cious slanders and falsehoods of Morton,
Blaine and other politicians, who have
deluded the people of the North with
fears of insult and danger, if they should
cast their destinies with the South. AZ
ter travelling forty-fve hundred miles /;
and mingling with all classes, it affords
him genuine pleasure to testify that dur.
ing the whole tour he did not see any
abuse, quarreling, violence, insurrection,
or even an armed or drunken man. He
summarizes the advantages offered to
emigrants in terse and vigorous man
ner, and as these inducements are not
confined to the region visited by Mr..
Clymer, we append his truthful state.
ment as applying in the main to this
latitude:
What are the practical advantages of
emigration to the South {? Among many,
I will present the following:
l. The soil, quickened and enriched by
an abundant annual rain fall, is general
ly of the most fertile character and capa-
BILE of growing the most exuberant crops
(often two in one season, with the less
labor and greater certainty than else
where.
2. The climate, except in low, mala-
rial districts, is pleasant, salubrious and
healthy, the weather being tempered at
all times by gulf, lake, river or noun
tain breezes. The heat of Cincinnati
and Central Ohio, though less continu-
Gus, is more oppressive than the heat of
Memphis, Mobile and New Orleans. g.
3. Excepting few isolated portions of
country. good we'll or spring water for
drinking purposes is abundant.
4. While there is no necessity to feed
stock of any kind longer than one
month, the winter being mild and the
grasses ever green, juicy and succulent,
it is necessary in the more rigorous North
to feed from five to seven months. This
is highly important to stock growers. ;fia
3 5. On account of the numerous navi.
gable streams and lines of railroad, what
ever is produced can be easily and cheap
ly transported, and, as consequence,
the markets are excellent. 4..a ..
6. AS general rule, although average
Southern people do not seem to appreci-
ate the fact, the cost of living isles than
in the North. o79 ~
7. Families moving South, unlike those
who formerly emigrated to the extreme
West, can locate in good. neighborhoods,
where there are churches, schools, good
society, court houses, and where all the
machinery of law and good order are in
full and successful and successful opera
tion. This is notably the case since the
despicable carpet-bag regime has been
supplanted by Democratic, intelligent
and honest government. e
s. The families that may settle in the.
South will be at all times, by railway or
steamer, within cheap, speedy and con-
venient reach of their Northern friends
nearer than in Nebraska or Colorado.
p 8. While farms in the North range in val
ue from $50 to $3.50 per acre, according to
location, improvements, buildings, &C.,
the very best of Southern farms, with
few exceptions, can be bought at prices
ranging from So to SIS per acre. Any
farmer who understands the value of
money will appreciate this difference.
10. The Northern tradesman, with his
superior industry and sagacity, seldom
fails to achieve a fortune in Southern
cities, where opportunities are so great
and manifold, and competition is so
small.
II. The manufacturer can find in the
South iron, coal and limestone, for max
ing the best qualities of iron and steel;
cotton, wool, wheat and cane, where they
are grown, for running his spindles,
looms, burrs and refining apparatus, to-
gether with the finest water power for
propelling engines and machinery max.
ing this, what God intended and destined
it to be, one of the finest and best paying
manufacturing districts on this continent.
12. Summing up the case in q single
paragraph, it is my deliberate conviction
that there is no territory of equal pro.
portions to that of the Sunny South"
that is blessed with so many natural ad-
vantages, and that has SO many possibili-
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