Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-27
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IMMIGRANTS.

article headed "Immigration and Develop.
menL," which we trust will prove to be seed
sown in the ground. Within the past few
days we have received from an esteem ed
friend in Darlington letter in which he
says, "in response to q recent suggestion OF
yours, we have have formed an Immigration
Society for this county"
- In the latter portion Of his letter he savs,
Eve propose attempting to obtain subscrip.
ton of one hundred farms, of fifty acres each,
and giving these away to bona fde settlers,
who will expend Eve hundred dollars (500O in
Improvements upon the farm, and reside on
the same for FIVE years. What do you think
of this ?"
We say, emphaticaly, we think admirably
we'll of it, and that it is step in exactly the
light direction !; but we warn our Darlington
friends it is but single step toward goal
that we fear is quite distance away. Simi.
lar organizations should be formed in every
county in the State, and each should have
itself Incorporated, so that they may have
method in their operations. Voluntary asso.
Citations are worthless. If such organizations
could be organized this summer in majority
of the counties, (and we do not see why they
could not be in every county in the State, }
they should then demand plank in the
platform Of the approaching campaign, re.
quiring that every candidate that expected to
receive their votes must commit himsef to the
policy of granting State aid to immi grafton.
These organizations being incorporated
need not be composed of large real estate
owners alone, but should be cooperative asso.
Citations of stock holders to whom shares of
such value that most of the voters could be.
come stock. k.holders would be issued. We do
not pretend to suggest the details of such as
sociations, but we do say that unless there
can be concert Of action all over the State,
and that unless this concert can induce the
Legislature to make appropriations to further
their projects, the voluntary efforts of indivld.
ual citizens will amount to naught
All over this broad Union there is an un.
conquerable prejudice against the State of
South Carolina In political circles the name
is not mentioned that the spirit of 1861 is not
suggested. Hamburg, Cainhoy end Ellenton
are household words in the mouths of North
ern Republicans, and frequently, of late, have
we met otherwise we'll informed men who,
after inquiring about the State, in sort of du-
biously interrogating manner, would say:
"And you think it would be SAFE for man to
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reputation of being naughty and exclusive.
Immigrants are exceedingly jealous of their
social rights Fleeing from the governments
of the Old World, where class distinctions are
as marked as the systems of government and
emigrating to a land notably the land ofequal
rights, they naturally avoid those sections
where social distinctions are the general rule.
The class Of foreigners who come to America
that we of the South want, and the only class
that we should attempt to introduce, believe
that every man in South Carolina is either a
proud aristocrat or an abject slave, and as
they cannot aspire to be the former they an.
ticipate their lot will be cast with he latter,
and hence decline coming. The ordinary
foreign laborer that is landed in this country
does not know whether South Carolina is a
part of the United States or part of some
other government.
Again, almost all the foreign importations
with whom We have talked have an idea
that South Carolina is an exceedingly sickly
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dinary health could live there. Moreover,
they say you grow nothing but cotton there,
and we don't know anything about that crop.
And they will invariably ask, what has your
State done for immigration
Now these are all obstacles in the way of
private enterprise. THE State,' with all
these people means the power to accomplish,
and unless the State co operates in some sub
stantial way, they can never be turned from
the Westward tide by the inducements from
private individuals. And unfortunately for
South Carolina, these prejudices which are
drilled in the ears of foreigners as soon as
they arrive, pre-exist in the minds of the
Northern people, and hence they will be that
much mo.e difficult to overcome.
We cannot in a newspaper article present
all the minutia of this question, but we think
we have said enough to establish one fact,
that unless we can get State aid all our indi-
vidual efforts at immigration will be fruitless.
When the State speaks there is authority