The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-04-12
COME SOUTH.
THE HoME-sEEKER'S PAR
ADISE.
The Inviting Fields of the Sunny South
1.rd rnore Preferable than the Bleak
sud B!izzardy North and West.
ICharlotte Chronicle.]

uSince the terrible storm at the
West, our Office has had more than
oo letters from Minnesota and Dakota
asking about North Cardinals Gil
mate" The above is a quotation from
4 Driye letter to the Manufacturers
Rrtoyd written by gentlemen con-
nected with the North Carolina Lana
& immigration Bureau in New YORK.
Doubtless the experience OF that ofhce,
remarks the Record, has been repeated
over and over again in all oouthe:n
agencies established at the North Dy
individuals, corporations and cities Tor
the purpose of giving information
about their respective localities. The
fact is that severe winter plnch-tests
human endurance to such an extent
that no one who has once gone through
with it is willing to chance like ex-
perience. 1t is altogether too great q
risk, and when people find that they
are in danger of being caught by a
cold snap while pursuing their ordinary
business, and of losing their lives IN It's
pitiless embraces, the glamour OF sum
mer skies and golden wheat fields lose:
its power over them. They reason
.this may do for Siberians, Russian:
and Esquimaux, but not for U.S. What:
the good of glorious summer and al
abundant harvest if we and our chill
dren and cattle are ali liable to treez'
to death when winter comes. . Suci
thoughts cannot be suppressed. 1h'
suflerings of women and children, tn
peril of all, count for far more Wit
the average American who has iamll
than would all the gold that has beel
unearthed in California since the Gay
of the "forty-niners. )" Our country
men were styled by some writer's nc
long ago "Civilized nomads. 10
certain extent this is true, for from tn
| time the separatists planted their fee
on Plymouth Rock, the Hollandel
took possession of the Manhatta
Island, the colony of Lord Baltlmor
erected their first cross at the head
Chesapeake Bay, and Oglethorpe wit
his brave followers laid the foundation
of Savannah, there has been a stead
march toward the interior until tt
pioneers of civilization from all the:
I Atlantic foundations crossed the Dact
bone Of the continent nor stoDpe
their majestic march until they locke
out upon the rolling surges OF II
: broaG Pacific. Those splendid Site
: whose teeming populations have COZ
If quered the blizzard stricken praires
: the Northwest and made them Il
granaries of the nation, have had the
T praises sung for quarter OF centuI
$ by land and immigration agents
e such stirring tunes that tens Of thou
i ands of people whose physical conc
n tions were entirely unsuted to the c
Il mate they were compelled to encount
IS have been added to their populatlo
n 1t is by many of these that the lnqulr
about the South are made. They ca
not live in health and comfort whe
, they are. They cannot endure t
- - cold blasts and pelting snow storI
s. that annually visit their homes. WI
thsy need, what they will have if tn
y, can find it, is heaithful climate Fl
as % from immoderate cold or heat. I
ny South is the place for them. In II
IL vast area, sparsely Inhabited at prese
that lies South of the Ohio, the Po
# mac and the Red rivers, there are n,
ed lions OF acres that exactly meet tn
OF needs. AS fast as they acquire relia
m m information they, like the, wanderi
". Hebrews. send their representatives
ice "spy out the land" and then, VII
ali they had been told is confirm
20 they sell out at sacrifice. and W
ar their families and their effects, they st
cy- for the land of promise. The Nor
NY western bllzzards have, during the
use five yeats, it is estimated, sent m
is than 10000 families into the South,
les States.
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