Year: 1871

From the Nashville Union and American.


We have often urged upon our readers
the necessity of dividing their lands in or
der to secure Immigration 1t is a condition
precedent to entice from the old world that
class of population which would add to the
wealth and greatness of our State. Men OF
prudence, forecast and far-seeing sagacisy,
will not give up certainty tor uncertain
ty. 1t is this class of imDi Digration that our
State stands in need of, and NOT those who
are willing 20 earn a preearious livelihood
by trusting to the changing chances of tickle
fortune. If it was known in England, Ger~
many, Scotland or England, to day, that in
the rich State of Tennessee the farmers were
dividing up their lands and selling good quail
tiles at reasonable rates, our State would be
flooded in two years with an industrious,
hardy, capable and Intelligent foreign pops
latiou Then would the banks of our
streams resound with the busy hum of the
spindle, and our fields rejoice in the varied
products of the earth Material develop
ment makes the greatness of State. and
there can be no material development with


out strong arms and willing hearts. Moral
and intellectual force are we'll enough in
their place, but wealth must precede these
| to greater extent In all countries. Power
| ty in State is an unerring prognOstie of
! deterioration in the morals and intellect Of
the people The lamented Buckle, in a
work of singular merit and research, held
that all civilization is due to IN increase of
knowledge, and that all social improvement nts
and increase of knowledge are due to the
! accumulation of wealth, because without
wealth there can be neither taste nor leis
ure for such requirements Wealth, then,
lies at the foundation of everything desirable
on earth We do not M an boarded wealth,
but wealth Of muscle as well as wealth of
soil and money. No State be called
poor that has a rich soil aud plenty Of
Ibrawny arms to work it, and still less can it
be called poor if it, in addition to these, has
inexhaustible beds of coal and iron ore, and
copper, and lead, and zinc, and gold, with
plenty of navigable streams and other
means Of trans nsportatIon. Nature has made
Tennessee rich, and nothing is wanting in
order to realize that wealth but strong arms.
Is there no way TO induce our people to sell
or give away part os their lands to hard
workingmon who will save VIII t they makei
Land is drug on our market, and yet it is
bard for stranger to buy. Thousands oI
farms 10 the State are not paying taxes
not because they are poor, but because they
are not worked. If the lands are not cuItj'
waited, how can the mines Of the minera


wealth be worked? Agriculture must o


necessity precede manufactures for the ma


terial of art must be supplied by the pro


duction of nature Let our land be worked


Lctus have an increased population. lie


more acts be done and fewer words spoken


IN corruboration of what we have written


we append the following letter fiom an in


teIhgent gentleman in Ohio, who has alread,


bought land in the county of Davidson, anC


proposes moving down with a colony. w


commend its perusal to ali men who are in


terested in the cause of immigration, an,