Year: 1879

declares that in the year ending June


80, 1879, 141, ,931 immigrants arrived in
| this country as against los, ,062 in the
| previous year. This tide of emigration
has set in again, and is steadily flowing
| to the Northwest. Not five per cent. of
| the arrivals go to the South. and GER
tainly the South wants fresh blood and
| muscle as much as the West. Why is


it that this, the most favored portion of


the country, is thus passed byP The
South is rich in everything to invite


emigrants; with rich soil, mighty rivers


and an Incompatible climate; with


mineral wealth that is waiting to be de-


veloped, it would be thought that that


would be the goal of those seeking
homes in q new country. The advant-
ages of the South are not unknown.
Emigrants have gone there, some to
stay, but the larger number to return.
In speech made in the House of Rep
resentatives, April 26, 1879. by the
Hon. r. G. Horr, of Michigan, the fol-


lowing occurs:


"When l was in that country 1.-THE


lower peninsula of Michigan1 I asked


men why it was they sought homes in


such a cold climate when the South was


full of unoccupied lands. One gentle


man told me he had tried to live in the
South, but that having been a Union
pi near where Chisholm and his family
were murdered, he was compelled to
flee for his life. Another in


telligent appearing gentleman stated to
me that he, too, had tried to live in the
South; that while he was there he was
under no fear of his life, but he claimed


that the people treated him with such
Indifference on account of his political


notions that he could not stay" ''' q
All this, we are aware, is an old story,


but in considering the reasons that the
South, if not retrograding, at the most


is only making slow progress, while the
rest of the country is steadily advanc-
ing, it cannot be passed over, for it con-
tributes not a little to those conditions


which are so seriously operating against


the Southern portion of the country.


1t can be claimed for the South, of


course, that having been the theater of
war, it would be unnatural to expect


that prosperity could attend it, especial
ly after having passed the war it fell
into the clutches of the "carpetbag-
GERS" but that there is really no good
ground for such assumptions is wit


messed in the fact that last year


the crop of the great staple of
the South was greater than ever


before in the history of the country.
This then proves the South is not wholly
prostrate; that it has made some prog


ress, but while it has been creeping
forward the rest of the country has been


going at a canter. Fourteen years have
elapsed since Lee laid down his arms at
Appomattox, and in that time the Ma
ton has grown as in no corresponding


period. Up to the panic immigrants
poured in in an increasing stream each
year. Few went to the South; all to


the West. Why was thisa The South


had more to offer than the North, but
tho immigrants, who had. heard the


stories of blood and outrage, sought
the colder North. This is one way the
South has stood in its own light There


has also been disposition evinced to
repudiate obligations. Rings have taken
hold of the Government. In the en-
deavor to make q Democratic close cor
have acquired power and welded it to


their own pecuniary advantage. The
condition to which Louisiana has been


Kellogg's Administration is case in
pOlut. ~ Is lulc W dSSuIAC euos thC
present decentralization of the South is


attributable to the effect of war. 1t


can be directly traced to the incidence


and apathy Of the people. and of their


stubborn objection to the presence of


strangers, in the fear evidently that


they will be deprived of political power.
Could other rulers have brought Louis


lana to a more desperate condition than
Nichols hasP As to the apathy and in


difference of the people to their own


interests, the case of Memphis is one in
point. Had the people there been as


industrious and energetic as they ought


to have been, yellow fever would not


be epidemic there to-day. The South


wants new blood. new men, and differ
erent government before it will be what


it ought to. 1t has in it all that makes


q country rich and prosperous, but, in


stead of being this. it is debt-ridden,


badly-governed country which gets


along IL a happy-go-lucky way. 1t is


like the drunken, staggering scion, Of


an old house, who haunts taverns,


boasting of his greatness while his


heritage is going to the Doggy. =.
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