The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-25
IMMIGRATION

business.
Schwab and his communist, held
a parade and picnic on the 4th.
Illinois on the war-path. GOV.
Grier has issued a proclamation m
structing the Sheriff that under
the statutes they have full power to
call out the posse comitatus, OF mil
itarv, if necessary.
At Marshalltown, the tramps
caused great trouble, and the May
or asked the aid of Major Bells
militia company, which was fur
nished. and a band Of forty men
were escorted out of the city. The
leader made a violent speech,
threatening that MarshaIltown
should be burned. Some of the
gang took possession of the train at
Albion. and held it until the arri-
val of the Mayor and thirty men.
Now. in the above, IS there no
lesson for us worth learning: Is
there nothing worth our pausing to
reflect upon We think so. What
is the warning we gather: Is 1t
not clearly to do as we have been
already advising ito 90 slow,
and ..let we'll enough alone IN the
matter of immigration. Is 1t not
so plain as not to take overmuch
prophetic ken to see some lightning
II al tins s.summer thunder ::
Would it not be but Il shambllng
part for us to play the ostrich, with
our head and eyes in the face OF
| such danger? And if there be
danger. as we believe, is not the
man who tills and improves, and
i tied down to the soil, the n
best entitled to know 1t? lmml-
grafton ought to be desired only to
that extent to which 1T can be read
ily absorbed. The work at Castle
Garden has simply flooded the
West and unbridled a mOnarchlal,
despotic people upon our free m
situations. A republic may stand
rebellion. revolution, reconstruc-
ton and manumission of its slaves;
but based, as ours is, upon the m
telligence, morals and affections OF
It's people, we believe nothing Will
wither it so sOon as the foul breath
of communIsm-a natural sequence
to an overdose of immigration. We
have. since the war, been a close
observer of the Castle Garden de-
velopment of the great West, and
we have felt and predicted danger.
Now, some of the great leaders OF
the North see ugly apparltlons, but
do not seem to search deep enough
to see that they come of the unholy
greed of hasty Development. Con-
stitutional government gathered It's
first breath from the South, and If
we but act Il wise part 1t Will come
to lis again, to yield up its last
breath in Il arms.
At the close of the war, sixteen
millions of blacks we're turned
loose upon our governmental states
rights machinery. The South has
not absorbed. but she has controll-
ed these people IN the interests of
good government, and ifundisturb-
ed. she Will continue to do SO.
Owing mainly, IN our opinion, to
this ''magniticent business of Cas-
tie Garden. we hear at tie North
already a lusty cry for stronger
government some strong arm to
protect life and property from the
mob From this it would seem
the North and West have gained
development, but lost liberty. Are
our people ready to MAKE such an
exchange Not yet, we hope.
Looking for. and fearing, just such
Il state of affairs us we now see t
the North, we never have and do
now less favor the coalition of any
artificial current of immigration to
North Carolina. We hear Of many
good mel coming into the State
men of education. capital and good
mOrals-add these to the haaltbfn1