The daily state chronicle., 1891-02-22
I'M MIGRATION.

Especial Cor. STATE CHRON1CLE.)
There is thought to be some disposi-
tion among certain members of the Leg
islature from Eastern North Carolina to
destroy the department OF immigration.
A man told me that the negroes were as
thick as black birds in his County and
nobody was coming there anyhow. He
did not seem TO care for Western
aud Piedmont North Carolina
into which the tide Of i'm
migration has already set. The
witticism Of a.citizen OF Baleigh, former
ly from Eastern North Carolina, "that
all the country east OF the Wilmington
q Weldon Railroad naturally belonged
to the negroes and the coons, and it had
just as well ba given To them" was said
in ject, bat it IS evident that certain
members Of the Legislature in or not far
from that section have accepted it as
true. 1t is true that nobody is
coming to the pine, barren re-
glons except consumptlyes and other
persons seeking pure, cool, sweet
and sandy graves. representatives.
| from such sections who watch mainly
| their own local interests ought not to
| be expected to encourage immigration 80
| to other sections Of the State-it would
depopulate their own. They not only
partake of the barren conservatism of
their everlasting sand-hills, but they
know that the grave seeker will
come without encouragement by law,
and selling grave yards is their only hope
Of creating boom in real estate But,
Eastern and Southern North Carolina is
by no means made up Of sand hills. There
are vast areas which only await more in
| tellicent cultivation to make them the
gardens OF Southern agriculture. The
country aroung the AibermaIle and
| Pamlico Sounds ought to ba the pride OF
the State Men and skilled labor are tire
only hope Of development. This the il
telllgeHt citizens like Dr. Cape
heart of Ayoca kuow already
and have been laboring for years tc
bring about. They would hate to see their
hopes rashly dashed to the ground by
having the Legislatures seal OF disappro
baton set upon immigration. Repre-
sentatives from the live sections Of Nortt
C1i CAihft IL ltiFOI Vi luillI
grafton. Representative from the deac
sections are general against it, for get
ting that whatever develops a part O
the State enriches the whole
Sometimes you find dead Representa-
tive from live section and live Repre-
sentative from dead section, but as
, general rule the representative partake
Of the nature Of his section. A represen
tative hailing from section from which
the grasshoppers and killdees have emf
grated, has little hope of inducing
healthy men to immigrate there Hi
constituents, including such of the sait
insects and birds as have remained, liv
too far apart to love company much
Those who fear our population Will be
; come too thick always hail from til
thinly populated districts. Those WI
: oppose immigration from the North an,
West have generally been elected on th
; sectional issue. Their battle cry upo
which they have won is that Southern
soldier is equal to four Yankees, whic
is historically true, perhaps. Fealty
this issue compels them to keep the Var
kee, whom he has shown to be inferior i
; the arts of war, from proving their supt
rior IN the arts of peace by comm
1, amongst us and going to work
The Alliance doctrine of the brother
hood of all the tillers Of the soil in ever
section finds no response in such bosoms
W. J. PEELE.