Greene County GaArchives News.....Immigrant Settlers in Georgia (Thomas P. Janes) August 22 1879
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The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, GA
The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, GA., August 22, 1879
Immigrant Settlers in Georgia.  Notwithstanding the fact that certain 
obstructive elements in the legislature and elsewhere are endeavoring by every 
means in their power to cripple and destroy the agricultural bureau, Dr. 
Thomas P. Janes, the commissioner of agriculture, is steadily carrying out his 
purposes and bringing about results that will hereafter do much to attract the 
attention of capitalists and immigrants to Georgia and eventually place the 
good old state abreast of any of her sisters in the union.  Some months ago, 
Commissioner Janes compiled and published “A Manual of Georgia,” giving an 
accurate and complete description of every section of the state by counties, 
which has been widely circulated both at the north and in Europe.  In one 
respect only was this manual deficient.  It gave no account of the experience 
of actual settlers and immigrants.  Our people have been so often 
misrepresented by a partisan press in the north and east and west that Dr. 
Janes conceived the idea of getting together the testimony of those who have 
settled among us and whose statements would have weight in quarters where 
misrepresentation and slander have been busiest.  With that end in view he has 
just issued a pamphlet entitled “Georgia from the Immigrant Settler’s 
Standpoint.”  This is one of the most valuable publications ever made for the 
purpose it has in view, and from both a political and practical standpoint is 
a complete vindication of our people from the current slanders.  In response 
to a circular issued by Dr. Janes to immigrants settlers in Georgia, replies 
were received from upwards of fifth counties, representing every section of 
the state, and these replies are embodied in the pamphlet before us.  A 
majority of the letters are from northern men who have settled in Georgia 
since the war, some of whom served in the union army during the war, and many 
of whom are republicans.  The testimony of these settlers is valuable not only 
because it disposes of partisan misrepresentations, but because the name and 
postoffice address of each is given.

A copy of this pamphlet will be forwarded to any citizen of Georgia free, and 
to non-residents on the receipt of a three-cent stamp.  It is to be hoped an 
early copy will be forwarded to our skeptical friend of the Burlington 
Hawkeye, who seems to be unwilling to believe that republicans can live, move, 
vote and have their being in democratic Georgia.  Letters addressed to Thomas 
P. Janes, commissioner, of agriculture, Atlanta, will meet with prompt 
attention.

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