Year: 1878

State possesses to record every donation
made the State for immigration purposes, and
if need be to survey and plat every tract Of
land that might be given or bequeathed to
the State; and after SO much is done, to pub.
lish in succinct and lucid form all this in.
formation and scatter it to the four winds OF
heaven. The world. lis ignorant of US, but
not much more so than We are of ourselves.
There are magnificent resources in South Car.
oina of which our own people know nothing.
Each man thinks big .neighborhood the best,
each is satisfied his county is the desirable
one, and sum it all upnot one man to town.
ship over the State is thoroughly conversant
or familiar with the entire State. Then, how
can we expect outsiders to know anything of
us or our State3 Inns


"I'll shoot you in q minute" is an epitome
of our individual character abroad. "Pd
break this Union to pieces" is the States ep-
itomized character also. And unless the
State, as State, through her Legislature
takes steps to place herself in a less unenvia-
bile position before the world, individuals may
give up in despair, for their efforts will avail
nothing.


Had we an immigration and Agricultural
Bureau to. day, we might have thousands of
copies of just such journals of information as
we propose should be printed scattered among
the visitors TO the Paris Exhibition. We
know there is there on exhibition from South
Carolina block of granite and cotton stalks,
but what else?


A few days since we were informed that a
large cotton factory, recently built in the up.
per portion of our State, would increase its
capacity, and at the same time declare divi-
dend. Not mandatory in New England
will do as much. We were also told that
probably old Vaucluse would be rebuilt by
the Graniteville Factory, without calling
upon the stockholders for a dollar No
mandatory in New England can think
of such successful enterprise to-day. Would
it not be good policy to have such informa'
ton placarded all over Paris just at this
time?


While we write there is passing our win
dow an immense procession, mile long, of
men composed of representatives of every
conceivable trade, clamoring, not for bread,
but for work. Are there not some in that
great throng that wousd make good citizens,
and would sooL repay the State, even if at
her expense they had to be taken and trans
ported to the farms that would so munifcent.
ly be donated to the State, in order that i'm.
migration might bea success?


But few days ago one hundred families
of Germans arrived in New York who were
known to have five hundred dollars in gold to
the family in their possession. Would it not
have been economy to the State to have had
one agent in New York to say to those Ger
mans we will transport you to South Carroll
ma and give you fifty acres to the family, in
order that those families might have been in.
duced to invest that Fifty thousand dollars in
the taxable property ofthe State2


Verify, verify, it does seem that we are
losing our opportunity. All over the North
shrinkage of values has reduced tho people to
despair, desperation and extreme want To-
day, we of the South are infinitely more in.
dependent and thriving than any Northern
community, and yet We are laying idle, and
not reapiug the harvest of immigrants that
are continually flowing to our country.


Foreigners 60 to our ministers abroad, to
our consuls, and to all the attaches, and make
inquiry as to our country. Think you, reader,
that they ever hear anything of South Caro-
lina2 If we were only awake to the necessity
of advertising our advantages, the State to.
day would have in every office in the world,
where there is a representative Of our govern
ment, a volume, or map. or placard of some
sort descriptive of our Stale, its resources, its
advantages and its general inducements to
colonists seeking new homes. But has such
an effort at advertisement ever presented
itself to one of our legislators? No, 10, our
legislation has been too much confined to
local affairs. We have not stretched out and
shaken hands with the world. We are
strangers to our brethren, and unless we can
spread out and famlisrize the world with US,
and ourselves with the world. NE will be
shrouded in Egyptian darkness for all time to
come Against such course We have time
and again entered our most urgent protest,
but what does it avail? Nothing, that we
have been able as yet to see


Recently we had conversation with c!ti-
zen of that far off State, Minnesota. This
friend was a ma jor general in the Confederate
army, but being an experienced engineer he
had gone into Minnesota Immediately after
the close of the war With aspirations, and has





round of the ladder, by chopping wood for q
railroad, (what an example for many of our
complaining citizens y and before two years
had elapsed his education and practical
kuowledge pushed him to the front. To-day
he is chief engineer of division of the North
ern Pacific Railroad That man said to US :
"Why doesn't your State advertiser" He said
We have thousands annually pouring into
Minnesota and settling upon lands as poor as
any in South Carolina, but in year or two
they make wonderful change in the looks of
things. Said he, these people never owned
foot of land in their lives, and when they
come to this country and get possession of a
few acres that they can call their own they are
the happiest people on earth, make excellent
citizens, worship the United States flag, and
on all election occasions throw up their hats
and hurrah for Gen. Jackson or anybody
else that is their candidate for Office. Sir,
said he, they support the State Government.


There is the entire thing in a nutshell.
These foreigners make good citizens, and sup
port the State Government. Could We ask
anything more of them? Do we do any more
ourselvesf And do we not all want more
citizens here to help u, do that thing?


But We have so often written upon this SUBJ
ject that we are almost in despair of effecting
much good. If the State could but see her.
self as we see her in comparison with other
less favored States of this Union, we feel that
our voice would not be 80 often raised in
vain upon the subject of State aid to immi.
gration.-D. WYATT AIKEN, in Ne,Ds and
Courier.


A SAFE RooF DURING THUNDER-SToRMs
Professor John Wise, Of Philadelphia, high