National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-12-09
SOUTHERN ANXIETIEs.

The Greensboro IN. c. North State pro-
pounds the following very pertinent
question under present indications: Shall
the South be depopulated ?" If there was
not apparent danger of such a result from
existing influences, no such question would
be raised at this time. The South forms
the most productive section of this country
for certain valuable crops, and has climate
us charming, except for brief period
during the summer solstice, as is found on
the habitable globe. Indeed, it is land
where every prospect pleases and only
man is vile" Abundant in the elements
of wealth to reward industry and enter
people of other sections to enter in with
capital and effort to build up the waste
places of that portion of our common
coun.-y and make it what the Creator de-
signed 1t should Re. and as it will become
yet-the garden of the earti:. The resident
people feel the need of capital and popGiiea-
tion to push forward the industries and
| improve the social status OF the South, but
the tide Of emigration refuses to set in
that direction. Then, again, it is becoming
more and more evident under present indi-
cations that the bone and sinew of South
ern industries are becoming dissatisfied and
ready to emigrate elsewhere.
The North State meets this question cam
didly and furnishes the true reason why
emigration will not set upon, build up the
population and give an impulse to the ma
terial interests of that section, and why
those upon whose shoulders the burden of
industry rests are anxious to seek new
homes and other fields of labor. They are
furnished in the following terse and en-
phatic terms:
The question now before the good, quiet and
honest people of the South" the original
white population" and it is pressing one-is
whether they will permit fools, rogues and
rulIians to ruin their beautiful and pleasant
land. The doings of these classes Of men as
they arc reported to the civilized woRld are
such as to cause people of all lands, who are
seeking homes, TO shun our borders. These
repOrts are believed, no matter 10 what extent
aud in what terms our partisan papers and our
stump orators in Congress may deny them.
There Is not reputable paper ut the North
bat what publishes the murders Of Radicals
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character of those who run the Democratic po-
lltical machine
These are the acknowledged influences
that work against immigration into the
South, and they are intensified by the fact
that when the President made sacrifices
almost to the shipwreck Of his own politi,
cal prospects with the party that elected
him, to bring the late rebel States into har
mony with the Constitution and laws o
the country, and secure an era of good feel
ing and good-fellOwship between the alien
ated sections, the proffer was treated will
treachery and contumely by the section
thus attempted TO be placated and recon
ciled, This honest and patriotic effort q
Cancellation has been met by the Yazo
plan, and murders the most foul and perse
cutions the most abhorrent have followe'
thereupon. For these reasons no man ha
cared to become q martyr to Southern i'm
migration.
: Then, again, those in the South who hav
developed It's resources have been so Ill
u treated that they cannot remain there with
! out sacrifices that no American either
. whether of high or low degree, can affOr
10 make. The North State presents tn
case of this class iu the following light
i The laborers in tho South are largely black
o these were slaves and kept in ignoranc
A Since the war they are still the class on whic
tile South depends for labor, They are stri'
9 ING TO become intelligent with detefminatio
o never equaled; their industry is seen by 81
4 Increased production of cotton and rice. I'll