Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-09-11

| tered remnants of her old families shall
be once moro reunited in the old bonds
| ofneig hborhood, wealth and conte. tment.
If these hopes are ever realized it can
only be by the restoring power of good
| class of immigrants, and that remedy is
happily not beyond reach. The sick
communities of a parish so beautifully en-
dowed by nature will soon be restored to
their ancient vigor and health by the
magic. working touch of the immigrants.
A strong infusion into her veins of heal
thy, fresh, Industrious blood-that is the
| remedy for all the ills of West Feliciana
and the whole surface of the parish her
$4,000 acres of untitled old fields, which
are to day laying waste and .uEproduc-
tive, confirms the diagnosis. And it is
due to the commonwealth that these
waste and unproductive old fields should
be converted into homes for imm; ;grants
and ii thoroughly systematized scheme of
immigration will do it.
1t las already been said that this is the
! smallest of the Florida parishes in extent
OF territory; except the parish of East
Ration Rouge, it has the largest popua-
ton in proportion to area. It is there
fore selected as the basis of compnta-
ton which may throw some light rlron
the dimensions of the field for the prof.
table employment OF immigrant labor it
being borne in mind that the fed inva-
| riably becomes larger as the pOpulotion
becomes sparser. Let us ow inquire
hot Ja to <>f
sons who may live protitahly and con-
tentedly by cultivating giving extent
of soli? Goldsmith, aswcet poet, put rath-
er n visionary agricultural statisti ician,
says in sort of spread eagle coup!et,
ga time there was. ere England's grcfs
began,
When. every. rood of ground maintained
its man.
lie so monstrous, although having no
sponsor hut very imaginative poet, has
ncvert heiess hcen merciessly assaled by
the agricultural sta:isticians, who main
tain not only that TO rood of ground ev-
er yet maintained its man, but they have
likewise demonstrated by arithmetica.
calcu la atinns that the famines in Ireland
and the Scottish Highlands are tracea-
hle directly to the experiment to make
ten roads maintain man; hence they
draw the inference that at q, minimum
limit of ten rords to a man a point IS
| rea cbed where wealth accumulates, but
men decay; hence, too, that where there
are rhe largest number of men to the
| s!nall,S number of roodS there is to be
f,u.,I tho i'm tarSact lprrna Of
ness. Assuming now twenty roods to
each man as the point where wealth ac-
cumuates fastest and men do not decay.
We are aStonished to find that the area
Ofthis, tho mallest of the Flor,d2 par
ishcs, offers a profitable field of labor to
sc, 91I immigrant. Keeping steadily in
view consideration of soil and climate
and their lmitless capacity for 'lversiti-
| cd production it is suggestive of wonder
why, the administration population of
ireland aud the Scottish Highlands have
| not already surrendered the privilege Of
starving on their ten rCnds at bone. for
| twenty roods of better land, in Il better
climate, and in a trcer country. Is it be-
cause they lack the means Of crossing the
.oceHrg Surely if they cond they would
come. and thereby doubl, the comforts of
| life for themselves, and double The COM
forts of the loved ones thcy leave behind
as well. The key to any comprehensive
scheme of immi grafton will be found in
! the incEorable logic of the ioreG ing sen-
| tcnce, because it is undesirable that the
| change which removes the immigrant
from the land of his birth is a change re-
pete with grief to him, only to be accom-
| piishcd through tears and struggles. The
last souvds from the drlsky shores Of his
native land will be tho wailings sent up
from broken hearted women, crowdng
! with GOV cred heads or the outermost
rocks the last sight of his native land
will DO their tear soiled countenances.
Such intensity of grief can only be faced
| by a strong man, impellcG by Il strong
| conviction that he is leaving behind him
chronic aud hopeless misery misery
which has lasted from time beyond the
reach OF memory, and which threatens to
last for all time to come. In their moral
compulsion of the ineEorahle logic OF
events in the Old World lays the hidIeI.
sp,iug which is to open wilo the casker
Of imnrigroticn, which is destined to
double 'hc population Of Louisiana and
clothe all her waste places with verdurc.
To such q glorious consummation is the
| Democrat and it's corrs of contributors in
the parishes pressing on to-day with eve
~ nerve strained!
1t would not he st to the amazing
fertility Of soil of West Feliciana to close
nv sketch without a glance at the heal
thy condition Of one of tho largest and
| ,rnst nrnluctive MINT aiiOns in the Nnr.