FLORIDA FOLKS AND FAMILY

 There are many natives of Old England
portions of the State. Hale, hearty, thrifty
ous, their families and homes are, pleasing
prosperity and the sound judgment typical of
lish land-owner the world over.
 Of Chinese there are very few, though t
be many of tlem in Florida. I believe in
Chinee"; his neatness, thrift, and excellent
ness, always quiet and orderly, are in every
able; and everywhere I found the people fav
immigration-in fact, a general desire to replay
labor with Chinese labor. Colored labor f


field, grove, or garden, while


from satisfactory. It is a
negligent, unless closely ar
class, the colored servants a
theft, are liable to leave y'
just when badly needed, ax
and provender. There are
and can not be relied on;
is their easy good-nature.


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residing in all
,and industri-
evidences of
the solid Eng-


here ought to
the "heathen
t unobtrusive-
ray commend-
oring Chinese
ice the colored
!or the house,


easy to control, is very far
ays uncertain, indolent, and
incessantly watched. As a
given to falsehood and petty
without a word of warning
are wasteful of your stores


exceptions, but such are few,
their only praiseworthy quality
The silent, neat, careful, polite


Chinese are far preferable.
 The least desirable of American immigrants are, as a
class, from "Alabawma." They are the real and ideal
"cracker," mostly very poor, ignorant, shiftless, improvi-
dent, conceited, and lazy; and they are about the only class
of immigrants to Florida that are useless. They are to this
State what the low class of Europeans are to the Northern
States-a damage and hindrance. There are excellent
people in Alabama, ;d some very worthy families come
here from there, but the lower class of them as a rule are
not very beneficial to any State. The best immigrants from
the Southern States are from Georgia; in fact, the average
Georgian is a shrewd, thrifty, sober, industrious individual
-a regular Southern Yankee. They are good citizens if at