The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-03
WE WANT THEM.

A gentleman Of this city, writing to n
friend from the North, says he wns surprised
ut being asked on all hands "if the people of
Toxins really wanted Northern people TO set
lo amongst them" 1t is surprising to u
Southern man why such n question should
be asked. Why should our Northern friends
have doubt of their welcome to this pro-
gressye cosmopolitan State? The Texas
people are not prejudiccd, sectional people,
! lllcd with hate and luminosity toward their
brethren of the Northern States For about
four years. from 1872 until 1876 there was q
perfect rush of immigration into Texas. Ii
estimated that in those four years not less
than |. 10000 people came into Texas and
found homes for themselves. OF these L.
100000 people, fully one-half were from
what L. in the South generally termed
the North or In other words those States
that remained in the Union during the late
war Tho bulk of this class Of immigrants
settled in North Texas, entering into
business in the thriving towns Of this section,
or opening farms in the rich black land to be
found all over this region. These people
live here yot. They aro of our very best cit
liens. They are Texans now, and do our
friends in the North believe that these people
hive no welcome tor them in their midst
DO they in reAity feel or think that there
is any class Of citizens in Texas
who are opposed to Northern people settling
iu Texas. If so, let them inquire whether
or not it is so of their Northern friends living
in tho State. Here, in Dallas many hundred
people live who have come to the city from
the North within the past few years, and they
will bear cheerful testimony to the fact that
they were kindly received, cordially vel
coined and are treated in every respect MS
| though they were Texans "nativc and to the
manner born" OF eight Aldermen in this
city, five are from the North, all within the
past few years, and we're elected without re-
gard to party, politics, or nativity. North
ern people are just the class of citizens Texas
wants. We need their energy and push,
and progressive ideas to MD us !! in
the great work Of developing the
State. We have millions of acres of land as
rich MS ever pillow ridged into burrows, and have
most genial climate. We have already many
miles of railroad and we are rapidly getting
more, and we would like TO have million or
two of hardy, intelligent, enterprsing
Northern men with tlei: families
to come down here and people
these fertile wastes MS well as swell the popu-
laton of existing cities. With hosptiable
hands, Texas invites them to hospitsble
homes. TIE HERALD time and again has
expressed these same sentiments, expressed
them in earnestness, sincerity, and in truth,
and it is matter of surprise we say, to us,
that our Northern friends should have fear
or doubt upon the subject. Northern
capitalists can find no place in America with
broader OF better fields for investments than
right here in Texas. Everything is booming
in the State, and if we can get Northern cap
ital; Northern energy; Northern Enterprise;
Northern progress; Northern machinery and
Northern business tact in abundance in our
midst, Texas will be developed into the
greatest land on this CONT
nent, the empire State of the
Union in all respects. l!ere is the field and
the material right 10 hand, and we cordially
invite our Northern friends to come down,
make homes among us, be of us and with us
be the architects in the building of great,
rich and powerful State-a State wherein
they can have a free hand in
fashioniug the laws under which they are to
live and in which to-day they have the
fullest justice before judge and jury. So
come along, gentlemen, trust us in coming
for our sakes, and you will conclude to re-
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