The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-09-05
TIVE GRAND ARMY.
What Is Being Done BY the Vsterans
for the Good of the Order
GOING SOUTH.
Some Good Advice to Comrades Who Can.
template Migrating.

Some Good Advice to Comrades Who Can.
template Migrating.
To THE COMRADES OF THE GAR:
Having observed that in the matter Of old
soldier colonization from the North % As
South, the tendency is TO 90 to the hot, damp
lowlands we, the undersigned. members OF
the Grand Army desire TO place before our
comrades reasons for calling halt.
While we would not be understood 10 dis-
parage any portion Of the South for the young
and the strong. we have reason to know rom
a long residence there and much travel among
the Southern States that persons past theig
prime, or who are from any cause enfeebled,
should avoid the long Summers Of the lower
country, and seek for homes locations Of not
less than 1000 feet elevation above sea level
For those in the most Northern States q con-
siderably higher altitude would be desirable.
1t Is, therefore, 70 save others much mis-
spent means, suffering, and disappointment
that we are trying to place before comradesO OF
the North few facts regarding a section OK
the South which we believe TO be safe for old
or young from any portion Of the world
1t does not seem to be necessary, with the
intelligent, to set forth a long array Of ar0u-
ments to show that the mountain districts OF
the South are in every point of view superior
to any others for NOrtherners' homes.
But there are few features and character
1stics which those who are looking this usy
are not likely to have met with in their read
ing or their travels on the great railway
thoroughfares Of the country; the almost in
stantaneous drainage off of surplus water:
the drafts, counter drafts and cross drafts
OF air, resulting in atmospheric publication.
and, at the same time, breaking Up into
harmless fragments the tOTnadOes and biz
yards of the level areas; the purity Of the
mountain waters, their unvarying volume
and abundant distribution; the shade SPREAD
ing deciduOus woods Of oak, maple. hickory.
poplar and other trees of the temperate lsti-
tudes, and the wild fruits and flowers, famil-
lar to the people of even far northern Maine.
The mountain towns and villages enjoy per-
feet immunity from the scourges Of epidemic
yellow fever. at an altitude of 200 feet
above sea level And, while we believe
Northern people are now welcomed in any
part of the South, it is a generally we'll
known fact that in the war for the Union q
very considerable portion of the mountain
people were loyal to the stars and Stripes.
The people of the lower lands rush to these
salubriOus hills during the Summer months,
submitting TO the absence of many of the con-
veniences and even comforts to which they
are accustomed with philosOphic indifference
that they may thereby fOrtify the citadel
of life"
Large areas of lOng-leafed pine .ands, from
which available timber has been stripped,
are being offered for Northern settlement ae
very low prices They are, in nearly every
instance, below the salubrious limit for any
but native residents. In view of some recent
looking toward the colonization
of such lands by old Union soldiers, we avail
ourselves of this opportunity to give those
who are contemplating a move South the
benefit of our experience.
1t will cost comparatively little to investi-
gate the mountain district known as the Blue
Ridge section, as it lies within almost equally
easy distance from the eastern quarter of the
United States. Coming in the months Of
July or August, it will be found that there is
scarcely any depressing, smothering dog-day
heat; that there are no annoying insects and
seldom any venOmOus snakes. This cannot
De said OF the many mild-wintered portions
If the world
The moral social and industrial interests
ire improving and a marked awakening 70
he importance of education is apparent
among all classes of the people.
Yours, in F., c., and L.,
FRANKLIN Row ELL,
20. G., 30th Me-, and of Lyon Post, 10, OF
New Jersey.
j. G.. HUGHES,
%. E. 98th Ohio, Commander Gen. Phil
Sheridan Post, 8, Department of North
Dakota
G. STANLEY Pope,
Sergeant-Major Goth Ohio, Columbus, N. O.