The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-02-08

OTTO be mingled with it They would inter
0marFy to some extent among US, there
0by pulling US down great deal, while
1--WE should raise them a very little.
! The most Of them would ignore our Sabbath
and scout our religious opinions. They
)Iwould be politically, socially, morally and
Ireligiously antagonistic to US. As laborers
ftheY would be of two sorts; those who
would remain hirelings and renters, and
those who would not. The former class
would be worse than the negro. They
would work less and rob more than he does.
Those who do mental labor for here are un-
areliable, the world over. "The hireling
lAeeth, because he is an hireling.D The
latter class would soon eutstrip US in the
race for property. They would, in short
time become owners of land and be indie
pendent of us; nay, our superiers in all
worldly possessions. They would make
fortunes out of US, laugh at our incapacity,
and then rule US, as the Germans are now
doing the natives in parts of Texas Since
writing the foregoing, the following from the
pen of E. 5. Smith, Dalevllle, Texas, has
fallen under my eye: The Germans occupy,
almost exclusively, large districts in the
heart of the Conference, where once there
were large churches, and even circuits
Before their steady advance the American
population has fallen back, and the terrific
ry has, by necessity hitherto considered
imperative, been abandoned by our
preachers. Dwelling in large communities,
they speak their mother tongue, keep up
the customs of their forefathers, and show
little disposition to become assimilated to
American customs and modes of thought"
But, says one, we want our idle lands
cultivated. l am unable to see the force of
this argument. What advantage can it be
to have land cultivated, if he who cultiVates
one acre consumes as much as will grow on
two7 Iii not because our lands are not cult
waited, but because they areunproftably culti-
waited, that We are now dissatisfied. But
will not foreigners cultivate our lands prof.
tably? Probably to whom? To them
selves, not to us. We have classified them
above. Those who work for US will be no
better than the negroes; those who work
proftably will soon grow rich out of US.
The food of foreign immigration to this
country is great calamity. At least four
out of five of them are such as were not
WANTED at the homes they left, and can
never be of any advantage to US. If we need
anything on this subject, it is rather to dis
courage immigration. If Mississippi had
NOW Wlbull DOIu6IS IlO Strung young
men who have gone from here to Texas,
california and other places since the late
war, she would be more blessed than by a
half million of foreign immigrants The
idea of State with more than a million of
inhabitants needing foreign immigrants is
preposterous. They may need US; we GER
tainly do not need them But they will
bring money with them. Not more than
they will need. Besides, money is by no
means an essential blessing. Many of the
most hateful and harmful people in the
world possess money il considerable guam
titles.
Ifsociety and the Legislature together can
desire any means whereby they can keep
our young men at home, and induce them
to settle on lands of their own, not rented
places, and build houses, and cultivate
their native soil, adorning their homes with
gardens, fruits and flowers, they will d.
more, in few years, to promote the real
of the State, than all the immi
grafton schemes that ever were invented
could do in life time.
w. L. G. HUNNICUTT.