The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
Immigration 10 the South.

Below, will be found an able article from
the pen of Capt. Charles H. Townsend edi
tor of the McComb City Intelligencer.
Capt. Townsend entered the Union army
from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and during
the war between the States, served as Adiu-
tant General on the staff of General Wash
burne. Since the war he has been stationed
at Memphis, Tennessee, and Holly Springs,
Mississippi, and after leaving the Federal
army has made his home in Mississippi
Like brave Union soldier, he has the
courage and manliness to do justice to the
people of his adopted State:
We have been shown letter from Mr.. c.
Menelas, who has recently purchased a
large plantation near Brookhaven, to Major
h. q. Wall, State Commissioner of Immi-
grafton and Agriculture, in which he speaks
OF having just attended a meeting of the
Farmers Club of the American Institute
New York. BY invitation, Mr. Menelas
addressed the meeting upon the capabilities
of Mississippi, and the inducements it pre-
scented for immigration from the North and
elsewhere. He states that his remarks were
attentively listened to, and much interest
manifested in the advantages offered by the
South, as depicted by him; but, at the
same time, he could not fail to detect feel
lng-lndeed the opinion was openly ex
pressed-that the settler from the North
would not be safe in the South, personally
or politically that freedom of opinion
would not be tolerated. that, if his politi-
cal views did not accord with those of the
community in which he had settled, he
would be socially ostracized, and his posi-
ton be rendered disagreeable if not abso-
lutely unbearable, and that he would, in
fact, be subjected to personal insults, if not
personal violence, should he venture to ex-
press antagonistic political opinions.
We are heartily tired and disguised with
this everlasting cant about the danger to
the Northerner in settling in the South
The immigrant does not hesitate to brave a
life upon the wild Western frontier, cut
ting himself loose from friends, politics and
society, and debarring himself and his
family from all the privileges of churches,
schools aDd9eOclal intercourse, and trusting
their lives to the tender merces of the
savage and the wild beast, and vet processes
that he dare not avail himself of the baImy
climate and fruitful soil of the South, for
fear that his political opinions may be in
terfered with. Now this is all cant The
people of the South are neither savages nor
barbarians. They can distinguish between
true men and professional vagabonds and
we know whereof we affirm, when we say
that any person, without regard to political
opinions or creeds, who comes 60 the South
and conducts himself in a manner that
would be tolerated in any weli-regulated
community, will be received, respected and
hOnOred as he may merit.
The South does not want politicians-no
section doe -. to the honest, industrious
immigrant she offers untold advantages of
climate and soil. Her chief staples stand
without rivals in the markets of the world
All the products of the Northern section of
the Union, to which may be added an end
less variety indigenous to more Southern
ATTITUDES, may be as proitably cultivated
here as elsewhere. She has the command
Of the markets of the country. With the
aid of her complete system of railroads. her
fruits and vegetables can be placed in the
markets of the North long before their own
products can be brought to compete with
them, and, owing to the prolonged season,
| they can be renewed by a second crop after
the limited season of the North has been
exhausted
Upon the habitable globe there is no
healthier cline; no soil that will respond
more generously to we'll directed labor and
intelligent fertilization, and no place where
| the honest, intelligent immigrant will re-
ceive as cordial a welcome, or be more
| honored and respected than in the Southern
| States of The Union.