The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

On Thurs lay, the 18th, our German
and Northern ieliowNcitizcns had n
Sunday School pic mic at Sharp's
Springs, near this place. We attended
because we wanted to be at the pic
mic, and because we wanted to show
our appreciation Of our Northern
friends.
Every one who knows us at all
knows that we were most deVotcdly
attached to our ancient regime, and that
we are and ever have been thoroughly
Southern in all our aspirations; and
never. while life lasts, will we say one
word in dcrogation Of the old South
or Of her Lost Cause. But we rccog-
nize the fact that sold things are
passed away, and al, things arc become
new" Aud we acquescc unreservedly
in the new order Of things.
But it is well known that in the
transition from the old to the new or
der the prosperity Of our country was
well nigh wrecked and in fact this has
never yet been fully restored The
one great desideratum has been to find
laborers for all our various industries.
But for the solution Of this problem
we only have to look around us and
see our country filling up with most
industrious, thrifty, and public-spritcd
population, from abroad, by whose Ia
bors our waste places are blossoming
as garden.
Yes, the way of our return to pros
pert, ut home and influence In tie Coz
ernment is through immigration. I'M
migration made the North rich and
owerrul-what it has done for the
North it can do for the South il we are
but wise enough to profit by our OPP
portuntcs, in the superior advantages
we have to offer the immigrant in the
way of climate, soil, and products.
The existence of slavery repealed i'm
migration from the South and turned
il into the North. It's abolition re-
moves the obstacle, and neccsSitatcs
the cutting up Of our farms and creates
n vacuum that our every interest dc
mands should be filled. We need the
assistance Of the Immigrant in develop
inc our material resources We need
his strong arms and untiring energy,
on our farms, in our mines, and in our
manufacturing establishments; and we
want his vote at the ballot-bOX to as
sist us in preserving free government.
There need nc no fears but that the
immigrants who settle among US will
be good Southern men, We don't mean
that they will cease TO he Union men,
or that they will become in any sense
antagonistic to the Union. In fact,
they may remain as true to the Union
as they were before they came here.
70 which we will have no objection
whatever, and, in fact. for which we
will commend them. But no matter
how much men may pirate about
Unionism and nationality, there is
something deep dorm in ever mans
nature, planted there by the God of ma
turc, which makes him say, my home
first-my State lirst-my section first.
Wherever Il mans home is. there is his
heart also. liza man lives in the Fast,
he is an Eastern man at heart. If he
lives in the West. his first lore is for
the West. And surely the South has
not less attractions Cor her citizens
than any Of the other sections of the
country. Who does not remember that
in the times past. "whcn tried men S
souls" whether in the armies of the
Conlederacs or in civil life, the men of
Northern or foreign birth bore their
parts as heroicallv and as honorably
as did those 40 the manor horn"
Then where Providence leads let us
no, fear to follow-but let us dismiss
our narrow prcjudices and most heart.
ilv welcome all those seeking homes
among US, no matter from whence they
come.
But, to the pic>nic. When we reach
ed The ground we found a large crowd
gathered under the shade Of great
poplar tree, singing. 1t was certainly
an interesting sight 70 see so many
new corners, meE. women and children
some from the North. others from
the vine clad banks Of the Rhine, and
still others from the shadow OF the
A.ps-asscmbled under our wide
spre aiding trees, happily singing the
songs of their adopted and of their
father lands. 1t was Sunday School
Festival. but mnch that was said and
done was in German, which it would be
useless for us TO attempt to describe
For instance, in media res, We saw that
Herr Naglc was making speech. We
we're little surprised. rs we were not
aware that he was given to speech