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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], President's message.--General Grant's report. (search)
Emigration — the South needs it. --The number of emigrants who arrived at New York from the 1st of January to the 16th of December, 1865, was one hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred and fifty-nine, of whom only four hundred and sixty-five came to Virginia. The Herald says: "It appears from the above that the emigration to the Southern States has already set in with a fair prospect that within a period not very remote the number will equal that which annually goes toward the fertile prairies of the Great West. "The end of the war and the abolition of slavery are changing the current of emigration, and the attention of foreign agriculturists is now directed toward our Southern section. "No other part of the world furnishes more attractions for the hardy immigrant than the luxuriant soil and balmy climate of our Southern latitudes. There is field in our cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar-producing regions for the employment of whole armies of hardy pioneers,