The patron of husbandry., 1879-08-09
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
NEWTON COUNTY.

NEWTON COUNTY.
Editor Patron Why is there so much
said and written at this time in regard to
immigration to the State of Mississippi?
Does it arise from a fear that the negroes
will go to Kansas in such numbers that
the agricultural interests of the State will
suffer for want of labor? or is it produced
by an insane desire to make money at a
fearful cost? Would it not be for the best
interest of the State now and hereafter,
| for the negro to go and never return? 1t
was against the best interests of the State
that so many negroes were brought to it
/ for several years after the war. The heavy
4 taxes that the whites have had to pay for
years, State, county and municipal, was
! largely owing to so many negroes being
! brought here that it kept the State under
| the control of men that were enemies to
everything like peace and prosperity also
/ largely contributing to the oppression,
strife and bloodshed, and in fact all the
evils attending the placing in power of
wicked, and in many instances ignorant,
men.
1t was only by united and almost super
human efforts that the State was wrested
from their control. A few made money,
but the toiling masses paid dearly for their
90. If they can build themselves up in
Kansas, religiously, morally and financial
", | will rejoice at their prosperity; for
we'll do all know, both white and black,
that they can never advance or rise here.
Socially, they will ever remain where
they now are.
Many that own large landed property
in this State and Louisiana are making ar
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men more Objectionable than the negro.
| mean the Chinaman. He, like the ne
gro who was brought from the older
States, will benefit few at cost to the
many that it is impossible to estimate.
1t is now understood that these men,
backed by the money of the bankers and
merchants, are making arrangements to
bring thousands and thousands of Chinese
coolies into the Mississippi Valley, and if
| they are permitted to carry out their plans,
the condition of the white laborers will be
such as to drive our best citizens from the
homes of their birth, and hand the fairest
land the sun ever shone upon over to a
servile race, that will in the end extermi
nate their masters
I With the climate, soil and facilities for
transportation that Mississippi possesses, ]
never had a doubt but that the most des-
rable immigrants from the older States, as
well as from Europe, would in short
time come among us, buy homes, build
churches, schools, manufactures, and de-
velop our State in way that would not
only be blessing to them but to us and
our descendants.
The presence of the negro has kept the
best immigrants away from us. Let the
negro go; persuade him to go; assist him
to go. He will benefit only few, and
certainly is burthen to the many If the
Chinese coolies are brought here, they
will make paupers of half the negroes, and
injure the whites in SO many ways that
will not attempt to speak of them now.
We have no large manufacturing com.
panies in this State. We have country
suited to agriculturists. Immigrants, with
or without means, can in a short time
own the land they work. .@..
HAMILTON COOPER,
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