This is the plan which should, in my judgment, be adopted in the South, and one which has great promise of success. What the South has that the North and West have not is cheap, fertile soil. I would recommend that through the agency of the Southern Industrial and Immigration Association we should organize what might properly be called the Southern Colonization Company, with a capital stock, if possible, of $500,000, inviting subscriptions to the capital stock from all the business interests throughout the South; that this company should, as part of its scope, organize an intelligence bureau, as indicated above. The plan of operations of such a company would be to obtain options on desirable lands through the South, and sell such lands to settlers on easy terms and at moderate prices.

With each family of settlers there are usually a son and daughter old enough to work, who will not be needed on the farm, and these can be placed by the company through its intelligence bureau. I believe such a company, organized with sufficient capital to inspire confidence, and officered by men who fully understood the question and were desirous of working it out for the true interests of the South as a whole, would be the most practicable way of handling the matter to insure permanent success, and that the company could be made a financial success.

I would add that I went over this colonization plan fully with Mr. Von Pilis and he fully approved of the suggestions made above; in fact, considered it essential before the Lloyds or any other steamship company would be willing to establish a permanent line. A company so organized would necessarily be directly interested in seeing that all immigrants were taken care of and made satisfied, and through such a company the conditions generally throughout the South as to labor could gradually be worked up to a basis which would make it practicable to import white labor direct.

As a summary of the above I would say that the points to be considered in the order of their importance are the following:

1. That the duty is devolved upon the people of the South, if they desire European immigrants, to use every effort to satisfy them after they have arrived.

2. That for a very considerable period the passage of each and every immigrant will have to be prepaid.

3. That until such time as the wage scale of the South approaches more nearly that obtaining through the North and West it is hopeless to expect white laborers to come to the South in preference to the North.

4. That our attitude throughout the South to the white laborer will have to be materially altered before we can expect to have the immigrant satisfied to remain as a laborer with us.

5. That we have been proceeding up to this time on a purely artificial and unnatural plan in reference to this subject of immigration;

that nowhere has it ever been possible to bring in the laborer first, and that all successful immigration movements have been started by the settler and followed by the laborer.

6. That an effort should be made to interest the business and thinking men throughout the entire South from now on in a combination of effort on the lines of colonization, preferable, I think, in one company, but not necessarily so. If such a company can be organized within a reasonable time on proper lines and with sufficient capital, I believe it will ultimately work out the salvation of the South so far as the labor question is concerned, and is, I believe, the only practical method of accomplishing that end.

Very truly yours,

P. H. GADSDEN.

Cannon Park-Showing Entrance to the New Charleston Museum.

THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM,

ITS GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT.

BY WILLIAM G. MAZYCK.

During the war, while Charleston was under fire from the Federal batteries, Professor F. S. Holmes, the then zealous and enthusiastic curator of the Museum of the College of Charleston, removed many of the more valuable specimens belonging to the Museum, together with its records, to his farm in Edgefield County, where his family were refugees, and where they were stored, with his own books, papers and specimens, in one of his barns, which, most unfortunately was burned by a marauding band of negroes, just after the cessation of hostilities. The burning of the records was, of course, most deplorable, and for many years I have endeavored to repair the loss by searching every available source of information, and have succeeded in gathering the facts detailed below.

AN ANCIENT ACCESSION LIST.

In 1865, and for several years after, I was librarian of the Charleston Library Society, and, while looking over a mass of rubbish in a closet, I discovered a small manuscript memorandum book containing, among other items of more or less interest, this important and most valuable entry: "Articles for the Museum, presented 5th June, 1793, by Capt. William Hall." This little volume I recently brought to the attention of Professor Rea, and after a prolonged search of the records of the Library Society, it was found, and a transcript of this entry, and those of its several succeeding pages, was published, in the October, 1906, number of The Bulletin of the Charleston Museum (Vol. 2, No. 6). This is doubtless one of the oldest, if not indeed

NOTE-This paper was prepared for and published in The Bulletin of the Charleston Museum. Vol. iii, Nos. 6, 7 and 8.