Huntsville gazette., 1882-07-01
Gas Others See U.s."
Natural Advantages and Politics al
Disadvantages. Immigration.
Pleasant Personal RecOl-
lonfiOIlQ

PRINCETON, IND, JUNE %. 1882.
4. w Mccullough Esq:
am indeed favorably impressed with
your lovely little city, and the county ada
cent, and do believe that you have many
advantages rarely found elsewhere SO hap
PLY combined.
Your very salubrious climate, pure water,
exceedingly picturesque scenery. fertile
soil, and the abundant resources for the
accumulation of wealth and indep endencc
when developed by capital and labor en-,
ployed in mining manufacturing NC, are
considerations that 20 far to tempt one i'll
as highly a favored country as Indiana to
pull up stakes" and seek home'in your
| state
grant you that the cause of the serious
disadvantages you suggest Is, aud has been
for a series of years the great obstacle III
the way Of tide Of immigration from the
North setting in that would supply to your
section of country the additional labor and
,apitl you need.
Naturally enough at the close of the war
there existed in the South feeling against
Northern people, began as it was in sect
ional strife years ago, and continued in a
sanguinary conflict that cultimuted at last
in rivers of blood and tears-a prejudice
that shut up the avenues of fraternal sym :
passions Of fierce hatred and unreasoning
/ ,stility which has showed itself in various
FIRMS, since and quite strikingly in en-
actments Of legislatures and the conduct
of elections.
Capital is timid, and where the ballot
ly counted, it is not likely to go. The spir-
it which would prompt Legislature to en-
act laws for the purpose of keeping one
party in Office and counting the other party
out through fraud, and makes detection
and punishment OF fraud in elections i'm
possible, might with equal justice cause
Legislation or controlling influences adverse
in other respects to the prosperity and
welfare of those who differ with them. To
defraud q man out of his Office is no better
than to defraud him out of his property.
And the party that seeks to continue in
power through fraud should meet the hos
tility of every good citizen who does not
want to be practically disfranchised aud
who desires the growth and prosperity of
the State. That your elections are fraudu-
lsntly conducted is no longer disputed
question.
l am rejoiced to see that prejudice is
breaking down and the bright dawning of
an era of reason and fraternal feeling,
admitting of the realization of the gsand
fact that we are one people, possessing vi
tai interests in common with each other
have made the acquaintance of some
of your citizens and without exceptions
they seemed to appreciate the fact that the
mingling together of the good people Of
the North and South would discover to
each that they are one people in every es-
sential sense of the word, which has SEEM
ingly not been the case in the past. Ny
experience of = few days in your city led
me to conclude that you have as good peo-
pie in Huntsville as the Sun ever shown
upon, and also that the Southern people
generally merit the reputation they have
for years enjoyed, of being the most hos
pital and warm hearted of all people on
earth,
In conclusion will say that my iudg-
nent is that il the South would convince
the North that prejudice Is giving way to
reasoH and that capital and labor would
be- we'll received aud treated, and that os-
tracism on account of politics and election
frauds were things of the past, capital and
labor would dow South and that section of
our country would build up and pros per
~ it never has before.
Very Respectfully Yours,
Al. CALKINs.