The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-02-22
GENERAL SHERMAN On GEORGIA.

He THINKS IT Is 4 FINE COUNTRY FOR
NoHTuERSERs TO EaIGRATE TO.
Letter 10 editor Horeu, Of the .iGantI
f0Hstitution:
The reason why Georgia has not kept
pace with such States as California, Iowa,
Wisconsin or Kansas is beyond question
that emigration would not go where slavery
existed. Nav that this cause is removed
there is no longer any reason why Georgia,
especially the northern part. should not
rapidly regain her prominence among the
great States of our Union. know that
no section is more favored in climate,
health, soil, IN Minerals, water aud everything
which man needs for his material wants
and to contribute to his physical and intel
Iecrual development. Your railroads,
already finished. give your people cheap
supplies and the means Of sending in every
section their surplus products of the soil
or OF manufactures. You have immense
beds of iron and coal, besides inexhaustrblr
quantities of timber oak, hickory, beech
poplar, pine, &c, SO necessary in modern
factories and which are becoming scarce III
other sections of our busy country.
North Georgia is peculiarly adapted to
fruit orchards, to gardens and small farms,
and all you need to make it TEEN with
prosperity is more people from that class %:
Northern farmers and manufacturers aud
that other large class OF European emf
grants, which has converted the great
Northwest from / wilderness into comforta
ble homes for its millions of contented PEG
pie. have crossed this Continent many
TIMES, by almost every possible route, and
feel certain that at this time no single
region holds out as strong inducements FOR
industrious emigrants As that from Lynch
burg, NITgiuIa, 10 Huntsville, Alabama
right aud left, embracing the mountain
ranges and intervening valleys, especially
East Tennessee, North Georgia and Ala.
bama. hope | will not give oilcnse in
saying that the present population has not
done full justice 10 this naturally beautiful
and most favored region of our country,
aud that two or three millions Of people
could be divided from the great west to
this region with profit and advantage To
all concerned.
am satisfied, from my recent visit, that
Northern professional men, manufacturers,
mechanics aud farmers may come To At
lanta, Rome and Chattanooga with a GER
tainty OF fair dealing and fair encourage
ment. Though was personally regarded
the jete Hoir of the late war IN your region
the author OF all your woes, yet | admit
that | have inst passed over the very
ground desolated by the civil war. and
have received everywhere nothing but kind.
courteous treatment from the highest to
the lowest, and | hear Of no violence To
others for opinions sake. Some union
men spoke Ia me Of social oStracism: but |
saw nothing OF it, aud even If 1t does exist it
must disappear with the present genera
ton. Our whole framework of govern
meni and history is founded on the per
sonal and political equality of citizens, and
philosophy teaches that social distinctions
can only rest on personal merit aud cor.
responding intelligence, and II any part of
a community clings to distinctions founded
on past conditions, 1t will grow less and