New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-31

that s ns eiborhood Iosi The sor sntI a.,
apostle OF recSsruc1i quo w" forth tr3
mass II crime the soIth fectVf1 a LStm , " v,,
nothing hut restoration OF the Culon anu d''ot'H l"
The poor, downtrotden regr'
He is evidently i'll earnest in what he means 10
say-there can be- no dOnbt about that. d-d' II -
ALWAYS well to know just what is the Foundation II
1anouapc 20 fgnratIvc and general How many de
Won sup; osa constituted this army OF uYlN"n an"
spoatoni under what circumstance I'll" tteN e"'
and for what purpose7 w zen the war waS over 'I'
South presented mary attractions to eht rpri'"E
men-a climate altogether unparalleled upon '"e
continent for saubrlty; a sparSrlv poiu atrd area
more than equal to all the States of thr North c't
If the Mississippi soil OF varied cap'clty ana 81
q productveness winch seemed lnrr'd'O' I" tue
Northern man IL class of products raised n"wh' re
else to such advantage or IA such eXc"l!rhce nhu'
featuring facilities altogether uurValled anu
almost entirely unimproved; mineral depos -
of great variety and apparent Richness, yen
undeyeloped; and large numrel of natural pro-
ducts capable of profitable manufacture. In ad'ii-
ton TO this all these productions, both natural ana
manufactured were in great demand at thar tllhr'
and brought almost fabulous prices. Inc ietN
money of the South had been DESTROYED, ana the
amount which poured in for the cotton ana
tobacco still on hand was not at all appreciated al
the time. The idea of almost every soldier who
marched through the South that 1t needed only
like the rose One can hardly realize the meas
ure of the inducements until he considers few
specific facts connected with them. In 1865, $500
and 1867 cotton rice. tobacco. naval stores ana
sugar sold at prices never before known
in time of peace. The SCUM lhahn-
featured scarcely One-ifth OF the cotton
CROWN In its least productive State. The water
power of its Eastern slope flowed almost untlnnered
to the sea, while like powers in the Northern states
4.Ixto e ranlF hn
chanical industry of the South was OF the most
slipsbod character, and the number engaged III
mechanical pursuits was only sufficient Tor the
barest necessities of civilization. The North
had always sent the products OF its skilled
labor to the South what wonder if Yankee brains
were at once infected with the idea of competing
with the distant workers by utilizing the vast"
power, training the unsked labor, and CONSUMING
the unused products OF the Southf
REAL EXTENT OF NORTHERN IMMIGRATION
These things are hard to realize fully without the
aid of figures. Let consider few from the
o.nsus repOrts The twelve States OF the South
contain i'm round numbers 100000 acres of
land OF this only 165 100000 acres arc embraced
in farms and of the acreage of these farms ~ per
cent is unimprOved, that only oo,oOO,Ooo
acres are actually cultivated. There were
at the time referred to thrty-slX acres OF
land to every individual of the population; YET
there were fourteen people 10 every liIn' III o'"OI
words there were 10000, 900 people and less than
200, 900 FARMS And this it must he remembered
in q section having great cities aud few towns
Yet eight. ninths of the soil was unimproved!
Here were waste land and landless labor lying
side by side. Is it strange the Yankee sought to
take advantage of this seeming opportunity III
the spirit of enterprise, welcome and generous
rivalry which obtains at the West had manifested
Itself at the South the years between 1oG5-the
close of the war-and 1870 would have witnessed
an Immigration to the South never equaed hy the |
ever-nowing westward ii de 1t would have num-
lcred hundreds of thousands If not mlllious Such
a result would have been bnt natural But what ~ |
the factf How many were the "larve of the North
WHO thus "oyeyran the SOuth"7 Comparing the |
returns of the census shall find that. while Ill the
year 1860 there 1923 persons IN these States
who were born north of Mason and DiXon's LUe,
in 1870 there were 1861 of Northern birth resi-
dent in the late COnfederacy, making 1O,63S to |
constut: the inundatiOn of " Northern larv8"! |
This gives almost 900 persons TO 100000 of the
population Or one in one thousand-Onc-tenth OF one
per cent In North Carolina there were 49l more
than III 1860. In South Carolina, 172 more than
there were under the slave regime. Yet they were
both "Overruu"l In Georgia there were l40 and III
Alabama 5O3 less than at the beginning of the de-
cade Yet they also "Overrun y! These states
contain almost 900 counties. so that the inund-
tion must have amounted to no less than ten per-
sons to q county, counting male and female or por-
haps az many as two and o half voters No wonder |
the Solld-SouthrOn compares them to the |
scourge of locusts which Ovorran Egypt 1t
must have been a terrible infection. In the |
whole South there was perhaps an accession or |
5000 voters an average of $50 tn a state. or about
three to county. In those States there were not
less than 10000 State aid county officers, Judges
legislators and Congressman, and ut least twice as
many magistrates and her subordinate municipal
officers Yet the larv8 "Overran" them all! IL
would seem as if the time had cOme of which the |
prophet spake when /" One shall chase Thousand,
and two shall put ten thousand to flight"
But whom we come to apply the test to particular
cases it becomes still more ridiculous. The num-
ber of Northern men that went 10 almost any
one State and remained until 1865. when the first
Republican Governments wore organized was 30
small that they nearly all known 10 each
pther. They were active, energetic men. vi that
there is no doubt. They very lively "larv~'
The fact that the larger part OF tho wealth
and intelligence Of the South arrayed IT.
self ut once in deadly and unremit-
ting hostility to the reconstruction measures
threw into political life many of these rien who
would otherwise never have dreamed of engaging
In it, Almost every one of them had held a comuls-
sion In the Federal Army, and many of them bore |
honorable marks of service therein. know very few
of them who went there under Federal appointment
] do not remember that any of them held office
undcr the Johnsonian Provisional Government from
1855 until 1868 Upon the organization OF the
State Government of North Carolina in July 1865,
out of the eight officers chosen Oh the State ticket
two carpet- bagcers" were elected there was ono
fudge out of H. thirteen legislators out of 40. and
MARIAN, twelve or fifteen clerks and sherIfs and
county officers IN the various cOuntieS-thOugh can
now sneak positively as to only nineOut of the $50