The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-08-17

Massachusetts owes her prosperl-
ty to ber SO per cent. OF foreign
born population so does Illinois
with her % per cent. And the
Northwestern States, as Michigan
with her 81 per cent, Wisconsin
with her Al per cent, and Mime
sofa with her 50 per cent, give
evidence of what immigration has
done in building them up.
And the United States as q
whole, with Is per cent. Of her
entire population foreign born,
gives evidence of what a power
immigration still exerts in the
developing of her varied indus.
tries.
Now, gentlemen, what percent
age Of this benefit has fallen to
the share of our State? We answer
none-absolutely none. The GEN..
sus returns of 1880 show 7,64l
foreign horn persons in South
Carolina only 7-lO of l per cent.
as foreign born. New York shows
81 per cent. South Carolina less
than l per cent.
New York is throbbing with
life, along her rivers, her. lakes,
her canals, her magnificent rail
roads; new enterprises are daily
springing up within her borders.
South Carolina is only beginning
to arouse herself to the conscious
ness of her needs Of life, energy
and capital. ..:
Now will any one deny that i'm.
migration is the factor which Is
developing New York, and if it is
still developing as old a State as
New York what is TO keep it from
doing the same for us, if it is
properly encouraged and fostered
in the future All that. has been
accomplished in this State for the
last twenty years, has been done
by her native population. Sup.
pose for a moment she had gotten
during this period, her share Of
this foreign born population, it
would have added TO her numbers
some 100000 whites. Can you
estimate what the advantages re-
sulting therefrom would have
been? Politically We would have
had another member of Congress,
and been of that much more i'm.
portance in the Congress of the
States; and in the State would have
had that numerical white strength
that would already have settied
one of the problems that now con-
fronts US with the ever recurring
race issue. Like Banquo's ghost
this issue will not down' at our
bidding, for it's a terribly live
ghost, and with threatening finger
casts a dark shadow over every pic
ture that we may draw Of .hefu-
ture of cur State. This ghost
should be laid, gentlemen the
relative Increase Of the two races
will never lay it, you can only
lay it by increasing your white
population. And this alone i'm.
migration can do for you.
And financially We could hardly
estimate what would have been
the outcome, from the capital and
labor thus introduced amongst US.
This tide ofemigration from the
old world is something almost
marvellous. In the decade from
1870 to 1880, some 2,s12,177 emi.
grants landed IN the Western
States. And already for the past
six months Of this year the arri
walls amount to 24l, 1868, almost a
quarter of q million, a nun ber
largely in excess of the arrivals
during any preceding six months,
and the feeling of dissatisfaction
in England, Ireland and Germany
is stronger than it ever was and
constantly sending to our shores
many oftheir valuable citizens, pos
sessed of considerable means often
able to buy land and build com.
Portable homes, and most all these
immigrants come with their points
for locating already determined
on and settle down where the
seventies Of q northern winter
or the hardships Of frontier life
far more than counterbalance the
cbeapness of the land, or any
other advantages those sections
possess compared to the South.
And there is no one to set forth
the claims of our Southern cline
and point out to them properly
the advantages we can offer. Ii
does seem to me, gentlemen, that