The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-04
What the Observation-Disclosures.
Mean.
The Columbus Inde.c says:-

The Columbus Indec says
The purchase of large tracts of land
in the South by foreign capitalists is
creating alarm in some quarters. The
Batesville, Miss, Blade has this to say
on the subject:
"What does it mean? This is the
question asked by the public when it
reads about English syndicates buying
up millions of acres of land. 1t means
we are to have powerful land aristocra>
cy in this country in few years"
1t means everything but that: 1t
means that the South, and particularly
Mississippi, offers the finest opening to
enterprising land spectators of any re-
gion in the world, and that English and
French capitalists are availing themsel-
YES of opportunities that have been lost
by Northern capitalists whose biggotted
credulity has been operated upon for
political effect, and to our detriment, for
the last eighteen years by the bloody
shirt shriekers of the Radical party.
1t means that English and French
capitalists have discovered that our eli
mate is delightful, invigorating and
healthy; that our people are enlightened,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., hospitable, in
dustrious and enterprising; that our
waters are pure, tempting and abundant;
that our forests abound in every timber
demanded for local use and commerce;
that our lands are rich, productive and
capable of maturing almost every crop
and fruit that can be raised anywhere,
and that these lands, though convenient
ly located in reference to markets and
transportation, are phenoninally cheap.
This being the case, they have like wise
business men entered this tempting and
field for enterprise, and
are buying low with the intent to sell at
handsome profit. Are buying for cash
at such prices as our people will take for
their surplus acres, and expect to sell at
such figures, in divided payments, as
will yield them handsome profits, and
we heartily bid them "God speed" 1t
is to great land syndicates that Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and
many other States owe their population
and prosperity; and it must not be for
gotten that the founders of Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, Louisiana, New
York, Delaware and other prosperous
commonwealths were great land specu-
lators who received by Sovereign gift, or
purchase from the aborigines, the fairest
portions of those territories, and peopled
them with good citizens for their own
profit or fame. Take the State of
Georgia, for instance: Our readers are
aware that an English syndicate of capi-
talists, operating through Oglethorpe
md Haversham as trustees, purchased
rom the Indians the very richest and
best portion of the territory now COM
orised in that great commonwealth, and
it with race of men who have
II every succeeding generation done
honor to their ancestry.
The alarmists Can very confidently |
ely uponI one thing, and that is that
English syndicates are not "buying up
Millions of acres of land" for the mere
pleasure Or luxury of burying their
beloved gold in the wilderness, or for the
,hilanthropic purpose of relieving the
many in South who are Gland poor"
,ut with the intent and purpose of
'elling it for much more than they gave
or it; and in pursuance of that intent |
,ur neighbor can'rely upon the syndicate
purchasers finding customers in their
own country who have not only the
means to buy but the energy and skill
essential to making the land meet most
Of the purchase notes, and all of the
sterling qualities that will make their
presence among us valuable acquisi-
ion, and profit and blessing to every
county that may be fortunate enough to
secure them as citizens.
Success to these Foreign syndicates,
we say, and our only regret is that they
lid not place their investments in this
Southern country Immediately after the
war