Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-03-23

AttHSc
In a special telegram from yicks-
burg, published in the TiIues-D emo-
erat Of yesterday, our correspondents
states that there has been for several
years a steady decrease Of the
negro population in Warren county,
despite the natural increase and
importstions, and that a big immi-
grafton movement is being inaugu-
rated, with a view to supplying
their places by white tenantry or
Independent white farmers. The
land owners OF the county propose
to organize a gigantic stock com
pany, pooling their lands They
will thoroughly advertise them in
the Northwest, inviting inspection
and inquiry, arrange excursions to
their county and lease to white
settlers, or sell on five years or
longer time. These settlers will be
invited irrespective of their party, or
their political opinions.
From a material point of view this
will prove to be a wise step, not
only for the land owners Of Warren
county, but for those of Claiborne,
Jefferson, Adams and Wilkinson.
Those counties, comprising the
richest portions of the Bluff land of
Mississippi, a region Of great fertility
and beauty, have for some years
been losing a large portion of their
negro tenantry, which has been
drawn to the rapidly developing
Yazoo delta. The negroes failed to
make good returns there, from their
thriftless modes Of cultivation and
their general lazincss, and it is
doubtful il they do better in the
Yazoo swamps, OIL the riparian lands
Of the Mississippi river.
That part of Mississippi composed
Of the counties named would prove a
Paradise for small white farmers,
fruit growers and stock raisers. Its
virgin lands are as productive as
those Of the Mississippi river. In
teiligent cultivation preserves and
even improves their original fertility,
which negro methods of cultivation
tend to destroy in comparatively few
years. In that section are already
many white farmers, who produce
their own supplies of corn, bacon,
sugar, molasses, vegetables, ETC.,
ADDICTION crops as q surplus, but
these ''many" form but an insignifi-
cant few when one takes into con-
sideration the vast area of unculti-
waited territory there awaiting the
hand of the husbandman. The
bluff-land region is the white mans
country, if there be any in the
South and no where north OF the
Ohio river do such returns await vel
and skillfully applied agriculture
labor as it is capable of producing
Apart from the material benefit o,
white immigration in that region i
would prove to be a move in the
right direction from a social anC
political point of view.
The Times-D Democrat has pointed
out the fact that the way in which t.
settle the vexed ace question
forever, and TO prevent the recur.
renee of race disturbances, lies il
establishing everywhere the loca
numerical supremacy of the whit,
race.
The Warren County immigration
Association will find, as the LouIsia-
ma parishes have found, that wherl
industrious white immigrants settl
they ally themselves to the politica
fortunes of their white neighbors
Those who come among us to guild
the pillow and to build our factor,
plants align themselves with tn
wealth and intelligence of the com
mQnities among which they settle
Let the Mississippi plan and tn
Louisiana plan be to settle upon GU
wasted fields, the sturdy Yeomanr.
Of the North, and to incite capita
from that section 70 embark in on
manufacturing enterprises. Mhel
this work is properly accompiishe'
the negro question will be foreve
eliminated from American politics
--$s@S-
Cotton Receipts.