The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-20

has Saved the property Of taxpayers from
the dsvouring grasp o. the tax-gatherer.
Can the Ssss and Pres have the heart 70
desirs these communities 70 be put back
under the blighting rule Of Republican
ism " again.
It may be said that facts like these are
not known to intending immigrants, and
therefore cannot have the effect of keep
ing them away but this lie . mistake. It
is true if persons contine their reading TO
such papers as the Ssss and Press they
viii never learn anything of the iniquity
of Republican rule in Florida, but Demo
cratic journals have taken care to expose
the true facts from time to time aud it
may safely be assumed that no intelligent
immigrant makes his home among MS who
is not thoroughly posted beforehand in
this respect. We do not look for speedy
immigration into Leon or any other county
similarly circumstanced. Long ago the
Florida Sentinel, when Secretary of State
McLin was its editor and Stearns was
Governor, declared that it would be ss's-
"republican to desire that Middle Florida
"should be settled by q majority of
"Northern whites" and he and such as
he took precious care, by the non-enforce-
ment of the criminal law and by. q system
of the most ruinous waste and extrava-
gance, to render the country undesirable
to any whites, but things have very much
changed in the last three years and it will
not be long, we hope, before Middle Flor
ida will be sought after, not only =" by
Northern whites " but by whites from all
sections. 1t is in our Judgment the gar
den spot of the world" and nothing but
the blight of restored Radical rule can or
will prevent the coming in of "settlers in
droves" We hopefully wait for the "good
time coming" Meanwhile let no man who
loves Florida leave anything undone to
prevent these twin calamities-the ap-
pearance of the caterpillar and the return
of the Radicals to power. Either of these
evils would be bad enough, but of the two
we should prefer the caterpillar, since the
land would be left after the crop is eaten
up, whereas Radical government, judg-
ing from past experience, would devour
both.
AS germane to this matter the follow
ing from the Fernandina Mirror of Sat-
urday last is to the point:
We must therefore look TO the settlement of
Florida by two classes of our own people. First,
those who find the climate of the North too Sc
we're and come 10 Florida for the benefit of
health. The other class will comprise those who
come for the advantages afforded in the cultiva-
ton of fruits and vegetables. Now, 1t is well
known that the principal Northern immigration
has been TO Texas and Florida, both of which
have preponderance of white population. II
we look further we find that the settlement
has been made in Florida in the counties having
the smallest proportion of colored population.
Putnam, Volusia, Orange, and that part of St.
Johns on the river Duval outside of Jackson
vile, have all attracted white settlers from the
North, while the so-called black counties oil
Leon, Jefferson, Alachua and Marion have re-
ceived but little accession Of white population
The Northern prejudice to association with the
colored man, and especially living under his po-
litical domination, is too deep-seated, and too
permanently fixed to allow of their immigration
into these black counties until they could see a
prospect of local government based upon the
fitness of superior race. The very instance
which the Sun and Press gives of Leon county
answers It's own suggestions With the return oil
the former Republican rule in the State the prob.
abilities are that an influx of colored people oil
the most shiflless and worthless kind would come
in from Georgia, adding nothing TO our wealth
and prosperity, while counter current of dis
gusted white men would 60 out, and all prospect.
i've immigration of white men with brains and
capital would cease Nothing in our opinion
could be more fatal to the interests of Florida
than the restoration of Republican rule with high
taxes, bad administration of justice, vagabond.
ism and ring officials.