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Show That Southern Labor Experiment. . Some of the journals of tho Southern States are exulting over that first load of immigrants that came direct from Europe to Charleston; they toll ' what immigration has done for tho north and pic-ture pic-ture similar results for the south. We hope they are not mistaken, but fear they are. In . the North tho immigrants sometimes work for wages until they get a little start and then push out for themselves. Others leave .fM by shiploads and by trainloads to join their coun- trymen in the west. There aro whole counties in Wisconsin and Minnesota whore the mass of tho ' peopla are literally little colonies in which the ' customs, language and dress of their native land aro all intact, where even tho food of their na- IMjiil I i tive land is strictly adhered to and where were if an American 1)01,11 t0 land amon them at ; u nightfall he could not ask for supper and bed and 'M J . be understood, i ! ; There is another class that settles in the 'i'W& J; t cities, some of them good men and women, but "' ':im j many of them of a olass that benefit their native ; ; i , !; land more when they sail away from It, than they 'Bi ! ' r do ours when they arrive. - ,,''11 ! ;. , ' Assuming that tho immigrants to the Southern M (' : States will be similar -to those who have been 'l i ' passing into the north for the past three score J ''f i f - 1 years, we are not at all convinced that happy re- ; i - suits will follow. One result ought to make the : ', ,t( I . ' , colored working men and women in tho south ( ',- 8 ; ' more careful to perform faithful labor, if t -, The great trouble will be, wo fear, a want of j , ' 1 assimilation on the part of tho new-comers with i ji the men of tho south. They know exactly how Jjjjj ' to handle the colored people, but when they come , h I to a race that will not need much management, v, ' .' but which will be independent in their work and , ' insist on perfect equality before the law, how :f ' will it bo? f ( Wo suspect that after a brief trial the ma- jority of southern men will turn again from choice V ! to the colored people to do their work. |