Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-21
EMIGRATION SOUTH.
GONE THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY
PROFESSOR eLv's LETTER.
rrs1udics ~ Capital and Ncsthsra sias-
dsrs--The Tide VIII Flow
OF Itself.

TO ne Editor Of ne Dsspntch'
Twas much interested in Professor Ely's
letter and yonr comments upon II.
wish TO express a few thoughts sug.
gcsted by his letter.
Until the fulncss OF time when the
negro will scatter 10 the four corners OF
Tho earth agricultural emigrants will con-
tinue 20 settle in tho West and North
west. but there will be no dearth Of emf
grants 20 work in southern mines and
cities. large measure Of the work done
in southern mines. at least in West Vir;,
gina. Is by Fnglishmen. Scotchmen, and
Germans. The foreigner does not emil
Vrate for tho sake OF that American fetish
the public school. In fact, the German
knows that no leaves more sensible and
Jess expensive system behind him IN the
fatherland.
Formerly large portion Of our coun-
try was daft upon pensions, and now tne
same portion seems daft upon wnat u
wrongly called free schools IN the Soutl,
and public schools in the North, the wore
public of course conveying the iueh OF
without charge.
PREJUDICE oP CAPITAL.
Professor Ely speaks OF the PREJUDICE on
capital. The Republican press OF t"s
North and Northwest has so long siahdereu
the southern people that many capltsIists
ia those regions believe the ISLANDERS 70 be
true Tho Northwest made biu LOT cur
grants before the war by sending agents
20 Europe with glib tongues and enleihe
pamphlets .o,,a IN
the Eldorado and 10 the land flowing WIN
WINE. milk. and honey, but ne wa . .eu
toned that all Of these good things were
only 70 10 had north of 36 degrees ~ u'in-
utica" that below that line outdoor IN.
Dor vas death TO the white man, thht
throughout the South generally laoor Was
considered degrading. and that the SOUTH,
srn people were lawless and violent anu
the men and women were without s,au,1
1.-The South hating papers asseTteu WIZ -
all TIM efronterv OF lmpu1ent ioiso .I.H"
that tho chiet occupation OF the eehlio-
men OF Virginia was the breeding OF sIa'es
for the more southern markets.
NORTHERN ISLANDERS.
Ito day the whole south is snuerine
under this defamation OF character, loI IL
& VOL known that emigrants from Europe
now refuse TO come to settle ia iieihie
and the South on account Ot tnelr peIIeI
In the stories against US WIN "n.ch Sno ~
minds have been poisoned (See Al. e.
Maurv, 1870. u..
Ih,s was % true indictment by the great
on1 Good Nnury, otherwise, OF course, IT
would not have been penned.
And n te probable that decade and q
balf Lns not suficed 10 destroy the full ef-
feet OF such SANDER, uttered by those
blessed with hgh-grade pubic schools
aud universities. -..
people wish the DISPATCH would reprint
torDe figures lately published from ME-.
Joilev. giving the amount OF pension
money the South has paid on account Oh
Tho late war.
The French have never boen accused OF
lack Of energy. vet their indemnity luna
,a,I tho Germans on account OF the
iranco-Prussian war. and the short time
IN which II was paid Is small matter
compared with the amount pad IN pen
elofi4 10 the North by the South.
Think of n ueople whose financial life
bean only twcntv-eight years ago, paying
moro than - 900, 900 600 of the new cur
roncy 20 their late enemy. and TINS under
The most adverse circumstances.
The lack Of energy ascnbcd 10 the South
should uo placed IN tine same category
with the fondness Of the southern people
for lVncllng innocent negroes.
40 not sec that the men IN the North
west are more energetic than the men III
tho South.
20 NOT NEED SUCH SYMPATHY.
Enumeration will come Your mines and
cities Wall first feel It. nay, are feeling II
now. aud gradually your counties near
the citics wlll be- cut NJ into little farms.
nr1 around tho mining towns truck
patches will multiply and gradually you
will have large foreign agricultural popu.
lation. And tins will be accomplished
without much AID from mort horn
higher Cd methods OF education.
Thomas Il. EVANS,
burlington, ..