The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-06-22
Emigration and immigration.

more, in fact, than l think the facts
justify at this time. 1t is true
there has been emigration from Ten
nessee for sixty years or more. The
greatest emigration l have ever
known occurred between 1885 and
1910, when the new lands in Missis-
sippi and Arkansas were brought
into market; our people then left
the state almost in colonies. The
fact is, there is no emigration from
many of the counties in the state, or
but very little. There seemed,
from some cause, to be a disposi-
ton to eXaggerate the emigration
from Tennessee at this time. From
the county in which live (Maury),
lands are assessed higher than in
any other county except Davidson,
there was very little emigration.
not near as much as l have known
in years before the war, especially
in 1854. Those who were emigrat-
ing from Tennessee were emigrat
ing under, as | think, delusion.
1t Is true they can buy lands ut a
lower rate than in Tennessee, but
when you consider the improve
ments, the advantages of good
roads, the difference in health and
climate, the relative productiveness
of the soil, the variety of produc-
tion, the Tennessee lands are
cheaper.
No matter how prosperous state
might become, there would be emf
grafton from it. 1t fact, its very
prosperity might increase the emi-
grafton, for as the country becomes
more prosperous, lands increase in
price, and many would sell lands
for which they could get high prices,
and 90 to countries where lands
where cheaper, although not so
good and without the same advan-
tages. Emigration sometimes does
good Men often change their hab-
its when they change their place of
residence. Men who would not
work here would work in Texas,
where the circumstances and sur
roundings were changed. Men dis
sipated here would become sober
men there. So it might be if many
reared in Texas were brought here
their condition might be greatly
benefited. Ours were naturally a
migratory people; they loved row
ing and change. Many now in
Tennessee would go to Arkansas
and Texas, and doubtless many in
those states would return to Ten
nessee if they had the means Of so
doing Emigration from Tennessee
is nothing new. A short time
since, the two United State sena-
tors from Alabama-Houston and
Morgan-were natives of Tenness-
see A former chief justice of that
state-A. j. Walker-was a native
of Tennessee, and so was one of
their supreme court judges. A
former judge of the supreme court
of Louisiana-R. III. Marr-was
native Tennessean, and so was
John r. Eakin, n supreme court
iudge of Arkansas, and also one of
their United States senators. A
former governor of Mississippi was
a Tennessean, and many of the
prominent meE of Texas. There
are many others whose names |
cannot now recall.
Many inducements are offered to
emigrants. Same men naturally
like a new country, and, like Daniel
Boone, do not wish to be crowded.
Pioneers in new countries, as pio-
neers in science, in improvements,
and in new enterprises, could not
expect to realize large profits, but
they gratified their adventurous
spirits, and perhaps were made
happy in so doing. If they will go,
we can only bid them ''God-speed,"
and wish them happiness and pros
perity, for they are ''bone of our
bone and flesh of our flesh"
IMMIGRATION, AND ITS EFFECT ON
PRODUCTIONS.
To show that productions in
creased much more rapidly than
population, will give the figures
taken from the census of 1880 in
regard TO Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Tennessee, and several other states