The Daily clarion., 1880-03-05


/ tho Northwestern States. All the agents
met had maps rs wcll rs pnnph hta with
accompanying maps These dilerent.coun-
. tries did not spare expense to accomplish
their object"
And Others have met those agents with
lithographic pictures caricaturing the South
and its people in the interest of Northern
lands, farms, aud homes. But our States
have done just as nearly nothing worthy Of
their abilities and necessities, as it seems
possible to have done, and done nothing,
considering the vast amount of land we have
\ in the Mississippi Valley; and the fact that
white labor can cultivate every foot of it
better than the African, aud that all the
agents Of those countries enumerated by Mr..
Torrey stood around him with maps and
books and money, and he stood there like a
stranger on forgotten errand--or, at least,
an errand he was not prepared to accom-
plish--must have been not little morti-
flying to him.
We have got to awake, and rise and work,
and spend money, and employ talent, learn
ing and industry, and make immigration
the great question of the hour 1t is the
greatest and most momentous to us and to-
our children, conceivable. 1t matters not
whether many or few Of the colored people
depart. This is true. The spirit Of unrest
the roNing fever has become sort of epi-
demic among them 1t may rage till tens
of thousands leave our States, or it may lull
and forever depart. But this is all decep-
tive. The inoculation has taken place. 1t
Is therefore, liable to break out at any time
hereafter. And our political enemies, deem
ing negro labor our vulnerable point, our
exposed, most perilous and indefensible for
tress, will avail themselves of attacks upon
it in all coming time. The conduct of the
North towards the negro in the South has
ruined him for all reliable and permanent
usefulness among rs any longer. The col
ored man is clever, and worthy of great con
sideration, and every kindness. But he feels
that he owes his allegiance to institutions,
people and leaders Of other States. Now |
they simply beckon to him and be drops
everything leaves state Of comfort supe-
rior to thousands of our white citizens, and |
flies to. the embrace of total strangers under
fearful circumstances; another climate--a
strange land-a people accustomed to work,
and have work done, not in the droning,
long metered, sleepy style Of Timbuctoo
but in the short metered quick step of the
progressive New Englander. Our future is
white labor or nothing.
In this condition of things, large sums Of
money ought to be judiciously expended
every year to illustrate the great advantages
ofour States for the permanent homes Of
honest tillers of the soil. And while think
agents should be sent to England and the
Continent think there should be funds
placed at the disposal of the Governors of
these States to enable them to send some of
our abest and strongest men into the West
ern States to deliver addresses on the SUI
perior condition of our climate, soil, and So
cety for genial and remunerative labor.
One feature, however have always in- !
sisted on, and still regard it a sine qua non.
Bodies Of land must Be set apart by the !
State, or by private companies, or by both,
ofsutfcient extent and fertility to establish
colonies on, Were fifty families from any
OF these States to remove to distant country
say Brazil they would not tolerate the 4
idea ofbeing scattered hither and thither
oyer vast and impossible reaches Of
They would settle continuously. 5
We must regard this sentiment indeed ne
cessity, in the case of such as we desire to 7
bring to our country.
Citizens of Texas have organized great
private company, with its arms stretching
out to Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales Il
and Europe, and they will realize just what /
any brave company of united, energetic
people of this Valley might as easily realize, t
as reward of their labors. If two colonies a
could be organized and put on a proper 2
footing, the lands laid off, and prices fixed
at $40, $40, $50, and $50 per acre-more or i
less and made Interchangeable for sevea years D
and one room and shed, thrown up, and
some cistern water provided immigrant Q
would do the rest, and it would be the no !,
blest work that the next century will see on
our soil, and the most enriching to our States. =,
long as we put all our eggs into one bas- n
let we shall approach more and more to the
condition of first-class poorhouses, The ri
nostsuccessful men among us diversity their
Investment; the most studious and schol-
lrly their studies; the most useful, their :,
the most Christian, the OBJ or
ects OF solicitude.
Our Legislatures ought to send Commits. t,
toners to England to invite cotton and
voolen manufacturers to set up branch fac a.
ories on our soil, and such factories should g
e exempt from taxation for thirty years. p
7 would pay inally--1st, Immigration I'd, tu
immigration; Sd and last Immigration, NJ
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What the Third Termers Intend. B.
few York SUM- .
Il cannot be cornhlainad that tho Third re