Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-01-02
Im0igYail0n to the South.

> progressive Southern journals are b.
ginning to wonder why 40 few of the
immigrants who come to this country
choose to make their homes in the
Southern States. 1t is not at all sur
prisiDg that they are waking up to SEE
the importance Of this question, and it
10 to be hoped that these quickened
journals will look at 1t in a true light.
During the past year about four hun
dred thousand foreign immigrants have
landed on our shores. OF this number
q table before us shows that only 1907
of them settled in the following thirteen
Southern States named Arkansas, 446 !;
Florida, 1876; Georgia, 1888; Kentucky,
1,174; Louisiana, 1856 Maryland, 1, 4s7
Mississippi, 80; North Carolina, q
South Carolina, IS; Tennessee, 1886 !;
Texas, 2,6S9; Virginia, 2O2; West Viz
ginia, 561. For some reason not ex-
planned Alabama, Delaware and Mis-
souri,, of the Southern States, are not
included in the table from which we
gain our information. 1t is not likely,
however, that the aggregate would be
much increased by the addition of Ala
bama and Delaware, while Missouri,
being more Of a Western than Southern
State, might possibly increase the mum.
Der TO double that reported. Even then,
surprising the humber should reach
twenty thousand, what a miserably
small showing it is when compared
with the three hundred and eighty
thousand that have sought homes in the
northern and Northwestern States. It'll
will be seen that one-third of the 1907
that immigrated South settled in Texas,
where the German element is strong
and where more liberal sentim emit
prevails. Taking out Kentucky and
Maryland, two border States, and Texas,
tho extreme South western State, the
total immigration to the other ten
States named only reaches the insig-
nitcant figures 2, 800, or an average of
about $50 10 each State. The great
State of Mississippi only received 80
immigrants and South Carolina only 70.
We can account for the low nun.
bers in the States named, but why
North Carolina, one of the most
tolerant and liberal States of the South,
should only have q Is more than we
can account for, unless it he that North
Carolina has no commodious seaport,
and that she has to suffer for the sins
OF her sister Southern States. Immi.
grants have gone down South, and in
good faith have settled in South Caro-
lima and Mississippi, but they generally
made 1t suit to leave as soon as possible
after the farce of general election had
been gone through with. A few such
unlawful hangings as took place at
Yazoo two or three days ago is enough
not only to drive every foreigner out of 1
the State, but the orderly and peaceably
behaved natives as well. Immigrants,
who have been attracted to this country
by the glittering tinsel of political
liberty. change their minds very materi-
ally when they come to find that in the
South this promised political liberty is !
only confined to those who See proper
to accept the dictum of voting on one
particular side 1t is not surprising in
the least that these immigrants should
prefer to settle in States where they can
receive the same protection in voting
with any political organization or party .
they see proper to choose.
The Atlanta "Constitution, " referring y
to this question, says that if Georgia r
bad received i'm migration in proportion
TO her population she would have had =,
immigrants instead Of the ludic-
rous number Of 1873 The "Consti
tuition" needs only to refer to the in.
human bea'ings Of colored Republicans
by her own Ku kux last July, which
were noticed in last Saturdays REpUB-
LICAN, to find the cause why immi-
grants give that State the cold shoulder -
II the South wants immigrants she j
hould eDdeavor to attract them not CT
'nly by the advantages of her soil and CT
climate, but by the federation of indi. IL
'idual opinions on all subjects 1t is Al
Inevitable that the richer fields of the a
Northwest should be sought by the "
,reater numbers, but the South has ad- a
'antages to offer also. One of the irs.I w
hings, however, she will have to do toY
'ttract both capital and Immigration pi
viii be to labor for complete political NJ
and then she will have plenty u
# immigrants seeking homes along her Al
Grille water courses. and mountain
anges. L
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