The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-01
NORTHERN IMMIGRATION SOUTH

| Inc Chattanooga Times, IN an article on
Northern immigration to Tennessee and
the Southern States, says, the fact is that
real and valuable immigration to the South
crn States from the North has just fairly
begun. True, we have had, here and there,
colony OF foreigners and occasionally one
of NorthcrncrS planted during the last
twelve years in different States of the South.
"A considerable amount of Northern and
European capita, nave found their way to
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and
| North Carolina. But there has been no
system or combination in it all. The whole
OF it has been desultory, scattering aud not
as intelligent as would have been best for
those who come. The Swiss colony at
Culman, Ala, and tho one in Grundy
County. this State, have been decidedly
successful, and one or two of foreign com
position in Virginia aud North Carolina
have done and arc doing we'll
The more general and systematic move
ment of immigrants in this direction from
New England, New York, Pennsylvania
aud other of the old Northern and Eastern
States, has only taken shape during the last
few months. There is now here gentle.
man from Portland, Maine, who will prob.
ably buy some 10000 acres of land on
which to locate 4 colony of several families
at once, with proepoct of many more fol
lowing in the coming autumn and next
spring. The persons composing this in.
choate colony arc men and women of culture,
made up Of first class business men, mcchan.
les, farmers, manufacturers, etc. who will
bring their all with them when they come,
and will be an acquisition any State may
be proud to get.
The same thing may be said of a large
colony from Lowell, Massachusetts,. who
arc preparing TO settle on large tract in
Coffee County, near Manchester. Col Kill
Hebrew is now in New England, working
up and putting in shape the movement of
New Englandcrs southward. The secretary
Of the Massachusetts Colonization Associa>
ton, Mr. Stcarns, Of Boston, spent several
days in this city last week, and went over
to Middle Tennessee to look at lands near
Scwance. He is commissioned to purchase
GO.OO0 acres for one colony, and may pur-
chase more than one site for other colonsts
b fore he returns.
This looks like business 1t shows that
the purely American element in our East
crn towns and cities are taking to the fine
climate, healthful and productive lands of
the South. as they have been for years
swarming on to the prairies of Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, leaving the
factories and shops to the Swiss, Irish,
English and German abo.crs and mcchan-
les. SO numerous has this exodus been
that some of the New England States, nota-
bly, Connecticut and Maine, are literally
drained of their best native young blood.
and foreigners hold the balance Of wcr
at the balot-box and everywhere else, and
still the hcgira goes on. One of these
colonies will be the mother Of twenty 9TH
crs, and ere long tn: middle AM more
northern belt Of the Southern section will
not only divide the "human spoil with the
Northwest, but we shall certainly get the
lions sharc.-Macon Tclcyrolh ond Mes
Scnycr.