The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-07-18
SOUTEEERN INDUCEMENTS TO
IMMIGRANTS.
What "A Northern NIan Saw and
Reported

! a careful tour OF observation. that in every
Southern State, good, rich agricultural
I lands, capable of producing the finest and
| IN st profitable crops Of cotton, rice, sugar,
| wheat, corn, oats, barley, and the most lux
uriant fruits OF perdtc and Seml-tropcal
zones, can be purchased for from 81 To SD
/ per acre, according TO condition, location
and market facilities. Indeed, found some
! large land owners who agree to give good
warranty deeds Tor farms of 100 acres each
/ to parties from Ohio or other Western States
| who will settle on the farms and give them
/ proper cultivation. The desire OF Southern
| land owners and business men To have West
/ ern and Northern men bring their families,
! fortunes and skilled labor for the purposes
| OF farming, gardening, stock growing mer-
| chandisiug and manufacturing, Is really as
! tonishing. Such would be eVeryWhe most
! gladly welcomed.
But innoceut-minded people of the North,
| who have been deluCed by The IN alicious
! SANDERS and falSehoods of Morton, Blaine
| and other politicians of that Tx, are fearful
OF insult and danger, with all that th0SA
| words im ply, should they cast their destinles
/ in the South. A greater mistake was never
made. During the past seven weekt | have
| travelled by railway, steamer, carriage, and
| on horseback. more than fOrJY-nve hundred
miles, through Kentucky, Tennessee. Mis-
| souri,, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Georgia,
! Mississippi and Louisiana; have talked pol
| tiles with their Governors, Congressman
! and other magnates Of distinction, and bust
! changes and boarls of trade; have tasted
| fruit it for the gods from the orch ards, and
drank the native and delicious scuppernong
! wine from the Vintages OF their celebrated
| horticulturists; have partOOk OF the elegant
| hospitality of the wealthy, as we'll as the
! Substantial hoe cake, bacon and buttermilk
| of the poor; have, in word, mingled with
! all classes of southern people, and it affords
me genuine pleasure to testify that during
| this whole tour | did not see any abuse,
/ EI0ipEpp.
| an armed or drunken man. On the con
| trary, | have been everywhere received
| with such a warmth of welcome and such an
| outflow of generous hospitality that words
| are powerless to express my gratitude. Save
| in remote aud thlnly-Settled districts OF
! Texas and Arkansas there is absolutely less
crime i'll the South than there is in the
| North. And this statement is verified by the
! official reports OF thS country.
/ What are the practical advantages of emil
| grafton to the SOuth2 Among many, will
| present the following:
l. The soil, quickcned and enriched by an
/ abundant annual rainfall, is generally OF the
most fertile character and capable OF grow
| ing the most eXuberaut crops Gotten two in
one season., with less labor and greater GER
| taiuty than elsewhere.
,. The climate, except i'll low, malarlal
districts, is pleasant, salubrious and healthy,
the weather being tempered at all times by
| gulf. lake, river or IN OuntaiD brcezes. The
| heat of Cincinnati and General Ohio, though
|
heat OF Memphis, Mobile or New Orleans.
3. Except IN a few isolated portions OF
country, good well or spring water tor
drinking purposes is abundant.
| /. While there is no necessity to feed stock
of any kind longer than one month, the
winters being mild anG the grasses ever
green, juicy and suculent it is necessary in
the more rigorous North to feed from five
to seven months. This is highly important
to stock growers,
| : ON 9ccount of the numerous nayiUahIe
streams and lines of railroad. Whatever Is
produced can be easily and cheaply trans
ported, and as consequence, the markets
are excellent.
6. As IL general rule, although average
Southern people do not seem to appreciate
the fact, the cost OF living is less than in the
| North.
7. Families removing South. unlike those
who formerly emigrated to to the extreme
West, can locate IN good neighborhoods
where there are churches, schools, good So
ciety, court-houses, aud where all the ma
, chinery of law and good order are in full
, and successful operation. This is notably
the case since the despicable carpet-bag re
qime has been supplanted by Democratic
intelligent and honest government.
s. Tie families that may settle in the
South will be at all times, by railway OIL
steamer, within cheap, speedy and conve-
nent reach of their \ Northern friends mucl
nearer than in Nebraska or Colorado.
8 While farms in the North rate in value
f from $50 to $3.50 per acre, according 10 loca'
| ton, Improvement, buildings, etc, the very
best of Southern farms, with few exceptions
can be bought at prices ranging from 50 t.
So per acre. Any farmer who understands
1.-The value OF money will appreciate this diff
| terence.
10. The Northern tradesmen, with his SUI
perior industry and sagacity, seldom fails
: to achieve q fortune in Southern cities
! where opportunities are so great and mani
fold, and com petition is so small.
2 IL. The manufacturer can find in the
South, iron, coal and limestone, for making
t the best qualities of iron and steel; cotton
wool and wheat and cane, where they are
grown, for running his spindles, looms,
burrs and refining apparatus, together with
! the finest water power for propeliing en-
gineS and machinery, making this, what
: God intended and destined it to be. one OF
the finest and best-paying manufacturing
districts on this continent.
u. Summing up the case in simple par
agraph, il is my deliberate conviction that
there is no territory of equal proportions tC
that of the sunny SOUTH" that is blessed
: with 50 many natural advantages, and that
: has so many possibilities of material pros.
perity.
But those person who desire to purchase
these wonderful lands at cheap prices mus
do so quickly, The gigantic Mississippi
the great '.Father of Watersf-wiil soon
through Ea6's jetsies or the Barataria Ca
nal furnish unobstructed navigation to TIT
largest steamers from the Mississippi Val
. lev TO Liverpool and all parts of the com
! mercial world. She and her numerous trib
, utaries will bear on their broad bosoms the
F grain. fruits, cotton, sugar and manufac.
! lures of this immense interior basin muct
! cheaper than is possible to any other mean:
, of transit Railroads will multiply rapidly
, i'm proportion to demand and supply Thi,
, valley is destined TO hold, feed, clothe ant
! educate a hundred and fifty millions o
: people. The observing, enterprising youns
, men OF the North and West will do well &c
prospect this Southern EIdorado, purchase
, farms, start manufactures and settle dowr
to business, assured that the rich and GER
! tain rewards of skilled and honest labor, N
: connection with the inevitable rise ia I'll,
value of lands, will realize wealth. indie
pendence and happiness for them selves anC
their posterity. J. X. CLIMER.
Cincinniti. o.. July G, 1877.