The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-11-13
un,,.,igratiOn.

ought TO r6VeTOeIdlC II Oui tliC @Ch
tire to the circumference OF the |
South. That key note is the i'm
portance Of sending well informed
agents abroad, with plenty of money
and printed matter, to spread in
formation among the laboring peo
pie, especially England and Scot
land, aye and in Ireland too, tc eli
ploy, as laberers, the rural popula
ton of those countries. say rural
population in contradistinction to
the idle and vicious population in
habiting the slums of the cities.
The first are poor, but well-be-
haved people, easily governed and
viii fulfil their contracts as laborers,
and it is as laborers chiefly that i'm
migrants are needed in the South.
However desirable immigrants with
capital to form permanent settle
ments or colonies may be, and | adj
nit the desirability of SO important
u movement yet it seems to me not
likely to be accomplished while the
South is shndered by the wide
spread dissemination of the most
disgraceful falsehoods regarding
our country and people by the
Northern immigration Agents
abroad and at the ports of debarka-
ton in the North.
We must send agents abroad to
overcome the SANDERS uttered there,
to induce emigfants of means, if
possible. 10 inmigrate One writer,
in your journal, thinks it very Sim
portant that the immigrant should
be assured Of the protection of his
person, property and opinions,
through the forms of law" If the
laws of Mississippi are not ample
tor this purpose, the State must be
in a deplorsble condition. | think
the law sufficient, and, if you have
judges who will not enforce the
law, from a too tender heart, or
from inability to understand the
nature and purposes of the law, re
move all such, and put in their
places those who will be terror tc
evil doors, while they admister just
ice to all.
1t is very important that the
agent who may be sent abroad will
understand the great difference be
tween the European vagabond o.
the cities and the laborers who have
always lived in the farm hamlets ir
Great Britain, and the farm village;
of the continent of Europe.
When in London, on several oc
casions, | have placed myself under
the care ola policeman to show MT
the city. He woulG go with me II
the limits of his district, and turr
me over to another; in this way
they showed me many hundreds c
miserable human beings, men, wo
men and children, who, they tolc
me, were known as Migrants anC
thieves, aye, even murdesers. They
were always lying around the low
eating houses till late at night or
rather, early in the morning, wher
they would stink away to thei
Wretched abodes.
Now, TO send to an immigran
agent to send you a whole ship loaC
of laborers, these are the people h
would send yoH, because they art
easily procuredsand cost little, Blu
YOU would be charged full price
the creatures would be useless a
laborers but expert at robbing
Some gentlemen in Mississippi
some years ago had just this expe
rience.
1t was my good fortune to be in
vited to many of the country resi-
dences of landed proprietors, il
England, where l became well &C
| quainted with the farm laborers
and found them strong and obedi
ent, always willing to do their worl
well. The farm system there is diff
ferent from ours. The bailif comes
between the landlord and his tenant
and the tenant employs the labor
ers. These are the sort of people
we want as laborers, but who woulC
not expect perfect compliance
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Young men are the most likely t
come, but often the objection would
be that they would not leave their
sweethearlsl A good agent would
obviate that by saying: "Oh! my
| good fellow,we will take her along
Call in the parson and marry them
and they will come to their new
homes in Ito them this new world
as happy as marriage bells, literally
The Chinese, as laborer are not
to be despised, but they will not
stay permanently, they or their
bodies must return to China.
Send an agent abroad on this i'm
portant mission; for if the exodus oil
our African fellow citizens cont n.
ues, it is very important that you
supply their places. like the
black man in his proper sphere, hut
bad advice, and the influence of the
Freedman's Bureau agents, with
the carpet-bagger who followed in
their wake, were detrimental to the
black man as laborer; why, we
all know, but we shall not stop to
set forth the process of demoraliza-
ton.
Let me add that the young labor
er from Great Britain must be han
died tenderly until he is acclimated.
If you push him all day, IN hot
sun, you run the risk of losing a