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The Christian Index.
BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO.
The-Christian Index.
Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 S. Broad, St.
(Secular Editorials.
Upwards of nine thousand billshave
been introduced in the Senate and
House of th^^ Congress.
The Berlin police have discovered a
new secret organization of Socialists,
extending over the whole of Germany.
♦
Rev. A. J. Harvey has been called to
the pastorate of the Baptist church at
Leesburg, Oglethorpe county, and has
entered upon his duties.
Western & Atlantic R. R.—We
direct attention to the “Special Notice”
of the Western & Atlantic Railroad in
reference to the new rates of fare.
The consumption of beer in this
country, last year amounted to 414,-
000,000 gallons, or 8-28 gallons per
capita, at a total cost of $375,000,000,
or 4| times as much as the cost of pub
lic education.
Populous cities are monsters that
destroy life rather than nourish it. In
the city of New York, for the year 1880,
there were 31,866 deaths and only
27,556 births. Two-fifths of the deaths
are among children under live years of
age.
A general prohibition law is growing
in favor in all sections of North Caro
lina. Halifax and Chatham counties,
through their boards of county com
missioners, have already refused to
grant any more licenses for retailing
liquors.
The total population of the State of
Florida, according to the census re
turns, is 266,566. Os this number
134,951 are males, 131,625 females,
256,891 native and 9,695 foreign
born; 141,249 white and 125,317 col
ored.
Governor Jarvis, of North Carolina,
in his message to the Legislature said
the colored race, he is glad to see, are
becoming more industrious and thrifty
and that he regards it an imperative
duty for the whites to see full and
equitable justice done to the blacks in
all things.
Select School.—We call the par
ticular attention of our readers to the
card of the Misses Sergeant and Pra
ther, who have established a Select
School in this city. Parents desiring
the services of first-class teachers in a
first-class school, will find it to their
interest, and their children’s interest
to patronize these ladies
Rev. W. W. Montgomery D. D. of
Chattanooga has become associate ed
itor of the Baptist Reflector, published
at Nashville, We read the paper with
interest before; we shall read it with
more now, and we cordially welcome
Bro. Montgomery into the ranks edit
orial. We wish the Reflector great
success.
Home Fertilizer.—We had the
pleasure of a call from Mr. Ketchum
of Ketchum & Co., Savannah. This
well-known firm are agents for Georgia
of the “Home Fertilizer,” a very fine,
cheap and reliable fertilizer. We re
fer our agriculturists to the advertise
ment in this number. The firm is a
solid and thoroughly reliable one.
—We had the pleasure of a call at
our office from Rev. J. W. Beck, the
popular President of Bowdon College.
This college, we are glad to learn, is
prospering. See the advertisement in
another column.
We also had the pleasure of visits
from Rev. S. G. Hillyer, D. D., and Dr.
Branch (of Cedartown), both of them
true and valued friends of The Index.
A large box was received and un
packed at the White House on No
vember 23rd, which was found to con
tain a massive desk or writing tabic,
a present from Queen Victoria to the
President. It is made of live oak,
weighs 1,300 pounds, is elaborately
carved, and altogether presents a mag
nificent specimen of workmanship.
Upon a smooth panel is the following
inscription: “11. M. S. Resolute, form
ing part of the expedition sent in
search of Sir John Franklin in 1852,
was abandoned in latitude 74,41 deg.
north, longitude 101.22 deg. west, on
the 15th of May 1854. She was dis
covered and extricated in September
1854, in latitude 67 deg. north by Cap
tain Buddington, of the United States
whaler George Henry. The ship was
fitted out, and sent to England as a
present to Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
by the President and people of lheUnited
States, as a token of good will and
friendship. This table was made from
her timbers when she was broken up,
and is presented by the Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland to the President of
the United States, as a memorial of
the courtesy and loving kindness which
dictated the offer of the gfft of the
Resolute.”
COALM UAISJT ZA’ AMERICA.
This momentous social and political
theme is endowed with a startling
amount of vitality. It has long ceas
ed to be a mere theory, but is, and in
creasingly will be, one of the gravest
of the great questions of political and
social economy confronting our rest
less age. This is more especially true
of European countries, but from past
and present experience it is a ques
tion, also, which can not be ignored
with safety by the prudent and
thoughtful of ourown people. Bishop
O'Conner recently delivered a lecture
in St. Louis on this subject, and con
cluded as follows:
Nevertheless, there are very grave dan
gers to be apprehended from communism
in the United States. In nearly all our
great commercial and manufacturing cen
tres there are societies either avowedly com
munistic or largely under the influence of
communistic ideas. They are thoroughly
organized and, in some instances, drilled
and armed for the struggle they predict, and
which, their leaders say, they are determin
ed to precipitate between capital and labor,
in this country. All the elements of disor
der amongst us are in sympathy with them.
Our great and ever growing army of tramps
would rally to their support in any crisis
that might arise. Property owners and law •
abiding citizens generally regard them with
ever increasing alarm. To withdraw their
men from their influence and prevent their
gaining absolute political control of our cit
ies, large Arms and railroad companies are
distributing their factories and shops over
the country districts of every State. But the
influences these organizations wield at the
polls make them courted or feared by our
politicians, who cannot be induced to fol
low the legislation necessary to avert the
evils they may cause at any moment. The
destruction of even one of our large cities
would be a fearful calamity; yet who will
say that it may not be brought about any
day by these societies, some of which are to
be animated by the very spirit of the Paris
commune? It is but three years since Chi
cago seemed, for a time, to be at their mer
cy, and when, in all probability, it would
have been laid in ashes, but for the determi
nation of the Irish regiment that had been
called out to defend it. The danger for that
and other cities is not over. It becomes
everyday more and more threatening. And
unless proper precautionary measures be
taken to avert it, the consequences may be
depk rable-
Upon the above the Macon Tele
graph and Messenger, of the 11th inst.,
comments as follows:
“The way to fight communism in Ameri
ca is by absolute equality of burdens and
privileges. If it be seen that the property
of the rich escapes taxation, or that tax is
levied for any other purpose than the sup
port of government, that it is imposed for
the purpose of bounty to favored classes,
while itoppresses the masses, we may antic
ipate the growth of communism. But in a
country where absolute and transparent
equality of burdens and privileges is main
tained, and when all are able with ordinary
diligence and economy to become property
holders, we can defy communism. Nothing,
however, is so fatal in its influence as class
legislation and partiality in taxation.”
Our able contemporary proffers a
ready weapon with which to meet and
overcome the foe, namely, the main
tenance of “absolute and transparent
equality of burdens and privileges,”
but admits that nothing is so fatal in
its influence as “class legislation and
partiality in taxation,” evidently hint
ing that these iniquitous elements are
present with us. In this our contem
porary shares the belief of our disting
uished statesman, Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens, who emphatically denounc
es our system of taxation as “iniqui
tous,” and as the worst in the world in
its effects upon the country, and as the
direct cause of the “tramp” trouble. If
these direct and indirect arguments be
true, in fact and by inference, it follows
that we lack our contemporary’s infal
lible resource for defying communism,
and should at once set about to place
this puissant Excalibarsword within
reach of our hands. Until this shall
have been done, our contemporary’s
implied doubt as to our political invul
nerability, and the open charge of Mr.
Stephens, painfully suggest good rea
sons for the apprehensions expressed
in Bishop O'Conner’s lecture, and will
justify the reproduction of the words
of a recent writer on this point:
“All that I am forced to admit is, that
danger does lie in the supinemas engender
ed by an overweening sense of political
strength and security, in the face of ondo.
ous facts, showing an increasing tendency
of the times in the direction of Agrarian
is.>i. ’Eternal vigilance is the price of liber
ty.’ We must not allow the majestic, con
servative elements which nature and the
healthy forces of our national life place at
our command, to remain quiescent, whilst
evil communistic elements, fostered by na
tive vice and malevolence, and steadily in
creased by an influx of the foreign article,
spread themselves insiduously throughout
the land. The poison of the cancer must
not be allowed to reach the inmost vital
parts of the body politic. It will be well to
remember, for the good of all concerned,
that ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure.’
"The great question of s proper adjust
ment of the mutual relations between La-
Literature Secular Editorials Current Notes and News.
ATLANTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1881.
borand Capital must be allowed to reaca a
legitimate solution. The deadly conflict of
extremes must be prevented. Law and
Common Sense must imperatively command
the peace when the spirit of mobocracv is
rampant, and the anaconda of Revolution
would twine its terrible coils around the
cradle of Liberty, to crush it, and the pre
cious redeemer of the ages within it, intfe an
indistinguishable wreck.
"It will require sleepless energy, and a
sturdy maintenance of the Right, to c./er
come and keep harmless the Satanic, si irit,
now tnanife ting itself everywhere.” [Hub
nrr's “Modern Communism,” pp. 68 69 ]
THE REVISED ENGLISH BIBLE.
—Rev. Philip Schaff, D. D., Presi
dent of the American Bible Revision
Committee, recently delivered an ad
dress in the Citadel Square Baptist
church, Charleston, 8. C. upon the re
vision of the English version of the
Bible. The following is a synopsis of
Dr. Schaff’s interesting address :
“The present movement for revising
the English translation of the Bible,
the lecturer said, originated ten years
ago in the Convocation of Canterbury.
It is carried on by two committees, the
one British and the other American,
co-operating with each other on the
same principles and exchanging from
time to time the result of their labors.
The British committee meets monthly
in the Jerusalem chamber of the
Deanery of Westminster, London, and
the American committee meets
monthly in the Bible House at New
York. Both committees are composed
of eminent Biblical scholars from, all
denominations using the present au
thorized version of the Bible. The re
vision, therefore, will be the joint pro
duct of all the Protestant churches of
England and America, and is intended
to supersede the King James’ version,
if the churches adopt it. The object
of the revision is not only to retain the
idiom ami vocabulary of the authorized
version, but to bring it up to the pres
ent state of the English language and
of biblical scholarship. The chief im
provements contemplated will be as
follows:
First. All obsolete terms which
have gone out of use or have changed
their meanings will be replaced by in
telligible terms.
Second, The text will be improved
from the oldest and best manuscripts
which have been recently discovered
and compared with the ancient trans
lations and the quotations of the early
fathers.
Third. Actual errors in translation
will be corrected.
Fourth. Inaccurate renderings,
which arise mostly from an imperfect
knowledge of the Hebrew and Greek
grammars at the time the present
revision was made, will be made ac
curate.
Ffth. Inconsistencies in the render
ing of the same word in various ways
will be rectified and uniformity of ren
dering will be secured wherever the
sense requires it. These inconsisten
cies extend also to proper names, such
as Timothy and Timotheus, Elijah and
Elias, Isaiah and Isias, Miriam and
Mary. Where the same person is in
tended the rendering will bo made
uniform. Hebrew names will be giv
en in Hebrew spelling and Greek
names in Greek spelling.
Sixth. Real differences, which ex
isted in the original Bible and which
have been obliterated in the prevent
version will be restored.
Seventh. The Italics which repre
sent words and phrases not found in
the original will be reduced to the
smallest possible number, so that noth
ing shall appear in the revised Script
ure which does not belong to it. The
business of a translator, the commit
tees have agreed, is simply to give the
best equivalent in idiomatic English
for the original Greek and Hebrew
without addition, without deduction
and without change of any kind, so
that the reader may be brought
face to face with the original word of
God.
Eighth. The division of the Bible
into chapters and verses, which was
made many centuries after the apos
tles, and is found to be very injudi
cious, will bo supplemented by arrang
ing the prose in sections and printing
the poetry as poetry according to the
laws of Hebrew poetry. One-third of
the Old Testament is poetry. The book
of Job, Psalms, Proverbs and Prophe
sies arc all poetical writings, and if
properly arranged and printed will
show to much greater advantage, and
its beauty, symmetry and rhythm
will be better appreciated by the read
er.
After ton years’ labor, Mr. Schaff
says, the committees have completed
the New Testament. The Old Testa
ment will be completed in two or three
years. The New Testament will be
printed by the University presses of
Oxford and Cambr.dgb in the month of
February next.
—A petition signed by over four hundnd
persons in Eatonton bos been prepared, re
questing the County Commissioners of Put*
nam to increase the tax for selling liquor in
that county to live thousand dollars.
NEW BOONS.
“Povkrina." An Italian story, translated
from the French of M ue- la Princess O Can
tacuzicne-Altikro- D. Appleton & Comp ,
New York, publishers
A more graceful, picturesque, pas
toral romance we have not read, in
many a day, than “Poverina.” Pure
diction, pure sentiment, charming de
scriptive passages, of life and of land
scape, aglow with the light of Italian
skies, and filled with its music, are the
prominent qualities of the book.
—“Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry ins
to Hie Cause of Industrial Depressions and
of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth
—The Remedy.” By Henry George New
York, I>. Appleton & Comp., New York.
—A work for thinkers, yet so clear
in diction, direct in purpose, and filled
with the very marrow of our nineteenth
century vitality, that even the casual
reader will be attracted by its interest
ing statements, and forced, almost
against his will, to consider earnestly
the author’s theme.
The author is unquestionably a deep
and logical thinker, terse and original,
and possessed of the mastery over a
peculiarly lucid and manly style. He
is fully able to think originally and to
write entertainingly on the very great
and potent questions discussed in these
pages. The chapters trampling upon
ihe doctrine of Malthus are honorable to'
any intellect, and are a triumphant re
futation of modern skeptics and realists,
like Darwin and Tyndall.
—From the same publishing house
we have received: “The Orthoepist,”
a pronouncing manual, containing a
bout 3,500 words, including a consider
able number of the names of foreign
authors, artists, etc., that are often mis
pronounced. The author, Alfred Ayres,
says, “This little book has been made
for the use of those who aim to have
their practice in speaking English con
form to the most approved orthoepical
usage.”
It is a valuable little manual, and
contains knowledge with which every
good writer and speaker should be abso
lutely familiar.
—The Bible Students’ Cyclopedia; or Aids
to Biblical Research. By A. C. Morrow.
With an Introduction by Rev. James M.
Buckley I). I). Illustrations and Maps. New
York. N. Tibbals it Sous, publishers; 37
Park Row. Price $ 1.50.
Dr. Buckley’s “Introduction” so
clearly explains the purpose and scope
of this volume, and withal is in itself
of. more than passing interest to all
who revere the Bible, and who are an
xious to promote the Sabbath-school
cause in its highest meaning (as a
light giver in the systematic study of
the Holy Scriptures), that we cannot do
better than to give the preface entire.
Dr. Buckley says:
“Whether the Word of God is read
systematically and for devotional pur
poses to so great an extent as in former
years may be doubted. There are many
indications that it is not. But that it
is studied and examined for teaching !
purposes much more generally, that is,
by a greater number and with greater
attention to details, is believed by those
who have the best opportunity to form
a correct opinion. The change that
has taken place in the methods of
Sabbath-school instruction is unques- I
tionably very great, and it is, in some
respects, a decided improvement. We
do not think that every alteration is
for the better. Radical changes drop 1
something of real value because it will ;
not incorporate with the main prin
ciple of the reformation. The present j
method of Bible teaching and study I
is pre-eminently one of questioning.
Every thing that can be known of the
Bible, of its mountains, rivers and sens,
its minerals and metals, its plants,
beasts and fishes, as well as its taber
nacle and temples, its prophets, patri
archs and apostles, its kings, judges
and priests, its singers and players upon
instruments, its mighty men and those
who were obscure, its women, children
and youth, its implements of agricul
ture, and its weapons of war, its ar
chitecture, music, poetry and oratory,
its weights and measures, its geneal
ogy and chronology, its civil and ec
clesiastical polity, is searched out.
Hence there is a great demand for
Bible dictionaries, hand books and ,
cyclopedias, the sale of which is con
stantly increasing, the demand for books
of this class being the measure of their
usefulness and their use. The light of
cotemporaneous profane history is '
thrown upon the Bible as never before; I
and analogies drawn from other reli
gions are employed to assist in the
understanding of God's Word. Two
things are now recognized; viz, that
he who does not understand tiic Bible,
does not understand human history,
and that lie who knows nothing but
the Bible, can not fully understand
that. Therefore the Bible, as now
taught, not only requires but com
municates much collateral knowledge.
There is a law of the operation of the
mind which has given rise to the uniqu ■
compilation herewith offered to the
public, which is this—the philosophy of
facts is remembered by many much
more easily than the facts themselves.
When once the facts are recalled the
mind classifies them, and reasoning
proceeds spontaneously, or can bo car-
ried forward intentionally, with ease.
It is well known that many can not
recollect dates, and some find difficulty
with proper names. Yet without names
and dates the vision of history is neb
ulous. To refer to a huge work, to
read an article of many pages in fine
print in order to authenticate a single
fact, date or name, when its relation
to history or to the unfolding of truth
has long been known, is tedious and
an unprofitable outlay of time.”
The writer then goes on to say that
the “Bible Students Cyclopedia” gives
an answer to every question of fact
which can be asked concerning the his
tory, contents and collateral relations
of the Bible, the question with its an
swer isolated and complete.
"BOYCOTTING:'
The expression of “Boycotting,” by
the force of recent events in distracted
Ireland, has become a permanent
and very expressive colloquial epithet.
It meets the eye in almost every press
dispatch,and has become as familiar to
the readers of newspapers as the terms
“bulldozing” or the South Carolina ex
carpet-bagger’s distorted definition of
“ostracism,” though “Boycotting”
means a far more terrible experience
to its victims than was ever realized by
the nimble-fingered and rapacious po
litical cormorants to whom the former
system of social repression was once
applied.
The Montgomery Advertiser, in reply
to a correspondent’s query, gives the
following satisfactory definition of the
now famous word:
The word got its origin from Mr.
Boycott, one of the active agents
against the land reform movement in
Ireland. He was so badly “Boycotted”
and so offended withal, that he went
before the courts with his injuries and
claimed immense damages therefor,
but with what success has not yet
transpired. The presence of a “Boy
cotted” person is not acknowledged by
a word, a look, a gesture. Not only is
there no intercourse, but no business
is directly or indirectly transacted with
him. Nobody will buy his grain, his
fruit, his garden produce, his horses,
cattle, fowls, or anything he has to sell,
nobody will sell him a pound of meat,
an ounce of flour, a gill of whiskey, or
an hour’s work. No one will give or
lend him assistance in any way, and
no money will tempt a man to ap
proach his dwelling. Under such cir
cumstances, a “Boycotted” person must
stock his house as if he were going on
an Arctic cruise, for otherwise,no mat
ter how large his bank account, he
may starve in the midst of plenty.
Even when supplies have been pro
cured from a distance he would lead
the life of a castaway on some desert
island, with the stinging consciousness
that, in his case, solitude bore constant
witness to the hate and loathing of
every human being within reach of eye
or ear.
In a word, “Boycotting” means much
the same sort of compulsory isolation
as that to which lepers were subjected
in ancient and mt diteval times. In
deed, the Irish process is, in some re
spects, a harsher one, since, even
among the Jews, the kinfolk of a leper
were allowed to bring him food and
clothing, provided they laid the arti
' cles on the ground at a certain dis
tance. It is not at all impossible, on
I the other hand, that under the stern
| application of the Irish proscriptive
I measure some landlords may he made
to feel the same pangs of hunger which
their tenants have so frequently exper
ienced. It is certain that a threat of
“Boycotting” is already regarded with 1
peculiar dismay, and that this intpal-'
pable engine of coercion has already 1
proved more effective than overt acts
of violence and armed resistance.
We add to the above the following ■
instance of the attempt to introduce !
this system upon American soil, which
we find in the news dispatches:
Father Walsh, a Catholic priest of
Connecticut, in an address to the Irish
people of Hartford the other night,
stimulated the organization of a “land
league” in that city and proposed to
, deal with the New York Herald in this
way: “I’ll tell you what to do with
that paper—let’s Boycott it.” (Cheers.)
He suggested that every Irish Catholic
news-dealer who sells the Herald bo
1 avoided in business dealings.
It should be remembered that the
Herald was the cause, the most liberal
contributor to, and the most active pro
moter of the “Irish Relief Fund,”
whereby hundreds of thousands ot dol
lars were distributed to the starving
people of Ireland during the late fam
ine in that unfortunate country.
In the House of Lords the Earl of
Beaconsfield declared the accession of
the present government had unsettled
everything in Europe, Ashland Ireland
just at the time when, under the pol
icy of its predecessors, pence had been
assured. Mr. Gladstone made a lengthy
speech defending his government,
which, he said, hud entered on a task
which might fail, but which would re
dound to the happiness and honor of
all if it succeeded.
ESTABLISHED I 8 21.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Columbus will soon have a flourishing
public library association.
—Miss Maria Randolph left SI,OOO to tha
Presbyterian church in Washington.
Prof. A. B. Niles lias accepted the posi
tion of Principal ot Sam Baily Institute, at
Griffin.
—There are in Georgia 88,522 colored men
who own, by the tax receivers’ returns for
their respective counties, 551,199 acres of
land.
—Macon city council has passed an ordi
nance forbidding cows to run at large on tha
streets. When will brilliant ami progressive
Atlanta do the same wise thing ?
—Superintendent Smart, of Indiana, has
been studying the public school system at
the South. He reports a surprising growth
of the system in Georgia and Tennessee.
—Mr. W. A. Singleton ha> retired from
the editorial management of the Buena Vis
ta Argus, and is succeeded by his sous, W.
M. Singleton, as editor, and J. W-Singleton,
as associate.
—The Louise King Association of Savan
nah is in a most flourishing condition, and
such demand is made for its service that it
has a telephone attachment between its Sec
retary, Executive Committee, Agent and
Attorney.
—Dr. E. A. Flewellen, President of the
Upson County Railroad, has been tendered
the Presidency of the Columbus and Western
Railroad, now operating between Opelika
and Good water, Alabama, a distance of sixty
miles.
—The Americus Republican has been
shown a mammoth cabbage, which weighed
sixteen pounds, and measured forty four
inches in circumference after being divested
of its surplus leaves. It was raised by Mr.
Pink Smith, of Webster county.
—The Washington Gazettesays: “A gen
tleman in this county wrote to the State
Superintendent of Fisheries for five hundred
German carp, but was informed that the
whole supply now in the United States were
obtained from only eighty fish that were
brought over a few years ago.”
—Mr. Davis, who lives near Rome, a few
days ago gave his little son what he supposed
was a harmless pistol to clean. While play
ing with the pistol he accidentally touched
the trigger, causing the discharge of the con
tents into the head of an infant who was
sitting on the floor, and instant death fol
lowed.
—Journalism “down South” has peculiar
trials to contend with occasionally, for in
stance: The Athens (Ga.) Daily Banner was
forced to suspend for a week because fuel
could not be obtained, and it was impossible
for work on the paper to be done without
lire. It. at last secured a supply of wood,
and on Thursday resumed publication.
—The Griffin News congratulates its read
ers on the advent of the new year upon the
prosperous condition of their city, and the
people of that section generally. It says :
“There is a line future ahead for Griffin if
our people will only make it. The present
generation of our citizens can give no better
legacy to the next than to .leave them a city
throbbing with life, growing in population,
wealth and influence.”
—A fine department of natural history
will be added to the Y. M. Library of Atlan
ta, next summer. The museum will consist
of over 5 000 well-marked species and varies
ties, all in good order, properly named and
located. Many of the species are very heav
ily duplicated, which makes the collection
contain about specimens. It will also
contain the finest collection of birds eggs in
the Southern States.
—The Sparta Ishmaelite says: “There
seems to be a misunderstanding on the part
of the people of the design and workings of
the Geological Department. It is not in
tended for the working out of theories ofthe
creation, or of determining how and when
the different strata of the earth were deposi
ted. It is, in a sentence, simply a school in
which the people of Georgia may be taught
the extent and the location ofthe varied and
undeveloped resources of their good old
State.”'
—We find the following in the Dawson
Journal of the Oth inst: "Elder Mathias F.
Cowley and Elder John W. Taylor, two
Mormon preachers from Salt Lake City
Utah, have been, for several weeks past
holding freque.it services, and proclaiming
the tenets of their faith in the eastern por
tion of this county. They have been zeals
ously working in behalf of their cause, dis
tributing tracts containing their creed, and
preaching on Sabbath and during the week.
‘The writer saw one of their tractsand
carefully read it over, but did not observe
any allusion to polygamy. Thus far we
have heard of but one convert to their
ministry, and this one is a lady of good
family and standing.”
—The Columbus Sun says : “For a week
or two past there have been large numbers of
negroes passing through this city en route
to I'exas. Every afternoon the second-class
coach of the passenger train front Macon is
crowded with them, and frequently to such
an extent that a portion are forced to wait
for the next train. They say good homes
and better wages have been promised them,
and this is the only reason assigned for leav
ing comfortable quarters in Georgia. The
majority of them are from the southwestern
part of the State."
Commenting upon this fact the editor re
marks: "That section is regarded as the
very garden spot of cotton culture in our
State, The lose of so many good laborers
will seriously affect planting interests. These
frequent departures should prompt our Leg
islature to take some measures to encourage
immigration. To neglect this will be an act
ol great inconsiderateness, if not superb folly.
At present, the colored people are the best
laborers the South lias, but will they be a
few years ahead? That is a problem to bo
solved. heir places must he supplied with
other classes, ami what better can be desired
than the prudent, industrious German, or
kindred nationalities? His thrifiand Indus
try are as well established as tlie easy cons
tented character of the negro. The latter as
a tenant works land to sterility, ami stock
for all that is in them ; the foreigner, being
more Intelligent, ami with a care lo I Im In -
ture, improves the soil as he gathers its pro
ductions. The one is u farmer, and acquaint
ed with modern discoveries and appliances;
the other a mere planter of cotton, supple
mented with a little corn.- We should have
population to replace that which has re
moved, and to secure It inducements should
bo offered to the better class of people who
have a desire to settle in tho United States.
Georgians should bo aroused to the needs of
the country, not just now, but in the future.
We should awaken to u perception of the
means whereby the great West is made to
prosper so bounteously. Tho Uouiiiion
wealth should take immigration under its
fostering cure. People will come if invited
and urged, and valuable considerations are
ofiered. This is an utilitarian age, and those
who cannot appreciate this condition will
retrograde.”