Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-04-16

the income arising from other sources,
should be doing dull if not improbable
business. How, then, can planters con-
tnue TO grow cotton at present prices, who
only make 3 to bags 10 the hand ? They
are on the broad road to ruin. They must
and will bankrupt themselves.
Very respectfully,
= Your obedient servant,
A. D. 8.
To the Cotton Planters of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, arkansas, Ten
nessee and Florida.
A crisis has arrived in the Cotton grow
ing business; prices have continued to de-
cline for a series Of years, until We are
compelled to seek some other channel for
all investment of our capital, or plant less.
The latter consider The remedy; and
with the conviction that rests on the mind
Of every man engaged in the business,
perfectly practicable. Taking it for gram
ted that there is no argument needed to
convince any man that the cause Of the
ruinous low prices that we are now getting
for our cotton, is over production, the ques-
lion that has been ten thousand times ask.
ed is-how are we to arrive at a concert
Of agreemen, and obligation TO plant less :?
Nothing more simple. But before ! pro.
ceed 10 lay down my plan. | beg to stale.
that if it meet your appreciation as 10 its
practicability, all o.her plans must be en-
tirely abandoned, and the door entirely
closed 10 discussion; for no matter how
humble the individual who addresses you,
yet the only possible way Of success is to
take i, as Il is and | faller myself that
when you read it over carefully, you will
agree that nothing is wanting but The CO.
operation of the whole Southern Press, 10
steer US safely through our present diff
culties-and have not doubt that The
press will come to our relief.
An easy simple and e6sctudl plan for a re-
duction Of The Cotton Crop.
Let every newspaper, in every State.
Territory and county that grows cotton,
give notice that on Monday, the 2nd day
of June, l845, the citizens of each aud
every county, as aforesaid, will meet at
their respective court houses. Let notice
also be given by every other possible
means.
Every county mast meet on the same
day.
The meeting shall then be organized by
The election of President, Vice Presi-
dent and Secretary, and called the Cotton
Planters Society Of --- county.
The President shall nominate suffi-
cent number of men residing in different
parts of the county, TO take The names Of
every cottun planter in the county, under
the following obligations. viz:
We, whose names are hereunto sub
scribed, do soemnly agree and bind our.
selves, that for the year 1846 aud l547,
we will plant only one half the land in
cotton, (hands proporlioned) we have here.
tofore been in the habit of planting; pro-
vided three e-fourths of The capital engaged
in growing cotton enter into like obliga-
tions.
At this meeting on said End June, a
number of The citizens Of each county will
subscribe for and pay to The President OF
the Society dollar, with the names
of their post Office, for --, published
The object of this subscription
will be seen presently.
On Monday 2lst day Of July, 1915.
another meeting Of the society takes place
and those who have been engaged in
procuring names will be punctua! in al
tendance. Each and every name shall
then be entered alphabetically in book,
kept by the secretary. The President and
Secretary, or either, with the assistance OF
either the tax receiver or the Clerk OF The
Court in whose Office The tax List is kept,
shall compare the list ofnames subscribed
10 The obligation, with the TAX list. and
then, either The lax receiver, or Clerk
aforesaid, shall certify 10 what proportion
of the capital of bis county is thus pledged.
and he shall Immediately forward the said
certificate to the Governor Of bis State
The Governor of each Stale can then COM
pare each certificate with the capital of
his State, engaged in growing cotton. and
when he makes up his aggregate compar-
ison and result, he will Immediately make
the same known by proclamation in said
1t. is desirable that all the Governors
should make their proclamation by the
middle or last Of October 1915.
On Monday, 9th December, l845, an-
other meeting Of each Society will be call
ed 10 order to make known 10 euery indi-
viduat the result-and it being ascertain
ed by comparison Of The proclamations OF
each Governor, that an aggregate Of three
fourths Of the capital engaged 10 growing
cotton in the said States Of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabsma. Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Ten
nessee and Florida, is solemnly Pledged