New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-24
that tho rights of such men as Justus Schwao
are abridged.
SOUTHERN EMIGRATION.

The relief for w0rkingmen Of Southern en-
igrati0n, which The TRIBUNE proposed after
the strikes, and which President Hayes so
heartily seconded in his late speeches, grows
every day in public favor. IL is impossible for
us to reply in detail to all the letters for IN
formation advice etc, of which we are In re-
ceipt One word however, as to the anmus
with which this change of base should be UNI
dertaken. The more that political motives are
left out of the question, the more successful IL
will be. We have received certain urgent pro-
tests against emigration by individuals The
attempt, we are told, should only be made by
masses of Northerncrs of numbers sufficient to
establish large colonies. LIST. For the prompt
disintegration of the solid South, which main
tains her solidity for the purpose OF voting
herself as soon as she is able. payment for
her slaves, for her war debt, for contscated
property, besides pensions for rebel soldiers,
their widows etc. The proposed colonies. II
judicously massed in certain States, would
neutralize these efforts by their votes
Secondly. The colonies should be large for
social self-support. individuals, we are warned,
cannot face the active or passive antpathy OF
the conquered people.
We reply to these arguments because they
cmb0dy the very motives and purpose when
are sure to make a colony of Northerners
failure in any part of the South. Success 10 a
colony or an individual, in any KIND OF buSi-
ness, requires, first of all, the good VIII OF
then pubic and what kind OF welcome can
the South be expected to accord to masses OF
emigrants who come for an avOwed hostile
political DurpOse2 There is an aDupathy to
carpet- baggers, who fastened on the South as
lceches DO to a dying horse, and 1T ought to
be shown in such fashion as to rid the coun-
try of these blood suckers; but to the best OF
our knowledge, no Northerner, or body OF
Northerncrs. have gone into that section with
the hearty, friendly purpose of building mp its
fortunes with their own, who have not received
a hearty and friendly welcome.
We haze no intention Of discussing here the
threatened terroTs OF solid South again in
power. Il is as well for wOrkingmcn who are
tl,inkngof emigration h the Spring, to remem-
Der upon this point, that the days OF dominant
Southern fre-eaters and submissive Northern
mud-sills date back just seventeen years; that
the South is led, in reality, not by the vapor-
ing colonel of the roads, WHO thinks II
would be a fine thing to be paid his own price
for his negroes and to settle down on pen
sion for life but as in the time of the war; 10y
slIowd politicians. They dragged the South
out OF the Union to strengthen her basis OF
power by opening the slave trade; they are
shrewd enough now to see that slavery is no
longer basis, but that their only chance lies
in capital, manufactures, a trading, working
population.
There is hardly county in the Virginias,
the CarOllnas, Tennessee or Georgia which
does not need Northern farmers, mechanics
and small capitalists, not only TO develop the
resources of he country, but TO show the peO-
ple OF the middle and lower classes how to
make money and to spend it in making their
homes more comfortable, and their lives fuller
and hi%her Comfort with them has hith-
crto meant simply plenty of domestic service
in dirty, sleepy towns, and bare, ill-ordered
houses. We instance these localities because
the Northern emigrant viii find IN their in
habtants no such dssmlarity to his former
associates Is to make him feel himself a
stranger. The same great branches q the
Scotch-IIish and English family stock runs
down from Western Pennsylvania to Georgia.
and the great mass OF the people just now are
much more concerned rs to how to develop |
their lands and business than with any secret |
gigantic political plan. The Northern farmer
or mechanic may go with safe assurance of
success, provided he remembers that his duty
as a citizen is to nationaZc, not North
ernie, the South.