Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-13

any part of community clings tc
distinctions founded on past condl
tions it will grow less and less with
time and finally disappear. Any at
tempt to build up an aristocracy or a
privileged class at the South on the
fact that their fathers and grandfAthers
once owned s aves VII result in a
ridiculous failure aud subjecF the au-
thors to the laughter of mankind. L
refer to the subject Incidentally be-
cause others have argued the Case W tn
me, but whether attempted elsew here
| in The South, l am Certain it Will not
| be attempted in Georgia; therefore, L
! shall believe and maintain tia at North
| Georgia is now in a cond ton TO in
| wife emigration from the Northern
| States of our Union and from Europe,
| and all parties concerned should adj
vertise widely the great inducements
your region holds OUT TO the industrious
and frugal of all lands. Agents
should be appointed in New York to
advise, and others at Knoxville, Chat
tanOOga, Rome, Atlanta, etc, to re-
ceive emigrants and to point out to
them on arrival where cheap lands
may be had with reasonable credit,
where companies may open coal and
iron IuiUSei "1cIc OS
erected tt grind wheat and corn, spin
cotton and to manufacture the thou
sand and one things you now buy
from abroad, and more especially to
make known that you are prepared to
welcome and patronize men who will
settle in your region and form a part
of your community.
Your growth and development since
the war have been good, very good
better than l was prepared to see; but
com pare it wi b San Francisco, Den
yer, Portland. Oregon; Leaven worth,
Chicago, ST.. Louis, or hundreds of
other places l could mention, less
favored in climate and location than
Atlanta. These cities have been no.
tOriOusly open to the whole world aud
all men felt perfectly at liberty TO
90 there with their families, with
their personal energy. You must
guarantee the same. not specifically
or selfishly, but with that sincerity
and frank ness which carry conviction. |
Personally, would not like |
TO check the flow Of emigration west
ward, because of the vast natural i'm
portance of that region, but [ 90 |
belive that every patriot should do |
what he can to benefit every part Ofour |
whole country, and L am sure that
good will result from turning q part of
this great tide Of human lie and en-
eTgy south ward along the valleys OF
the Allegheny Mountain', especially
of East Tennesse. Northern Georgia
and Alabama, and if | eau aid you in
this good work / assure you that
will do SO with infinite pleasure.
Excuse M if [ ask you, as an ed
Itor, To let up somewhat on the favorite
hobby of "carptt-baggeTs." [ know
that you personally apply the term
only to political adventures, but o hers
your readers-cODstrue it otherwise.
[ have resided in san Francisco,
Leavenworth and st. Louis, and of
the men who have built up these great
cities, L assert that not one in fifty was
a native OF the place. All, or sub
al, were t-baggers-
]. e. emigrants from all parts of the
world, many of them from the South.
Oar Supreme Court, Congress and our
most prominent and intellectaI men
now hail from localities of their own
adoption, not of their birth. Let the
TO Georgia feel and realize
hat his business and social position
result from his own Industry, his
merits and his virtues, and not from
he accidental place of his birth, and
Oon the great advantages OF climate,
oil, minerals, timber, etc., will fill up 6
,Our country and make Atlanta one of G
he most prosperous, beautiful aud at
ractive cities, not alone of the South,
nut of the whole continent, an end
which / desire quite as much as you.
Our nation has passed its Infancy
With the usual diseases peculiar to that
'eriOd of life, and now, in its second y
entury, it enters on its epoch of man
lOod. Ia this you, younger man, T
rave more at stake than /. l beg of
on to look ahead and not behind, and y
o encourage by word aud example
very effort to make Georgia the con-
anted home OF three or four millions j
f industrious and virtuOus people. q
or your personal courtesy to me on G
~ recent visit [ give yen hearty r
hanks, and will. IN my return to 2
Washing ton, be most happy to hear D
Om you further on this and kindred N
affects With respect, your friend,
w. :. SHERMAN. Y