The Arkansas banner., 1845-04-16

10 HE OOI JUN PLAN | ERo UT NCR II l CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEOR-
 CHA, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISE
 ANA, ARKANSAS, TENNESSEE AND
 FLORIDA.
 4 crisis has arrived in the cotton growing business; prices have continued to decline for series of years, until we are compelled to seek some other channel for all investment of our rcapilal, or plant less. The latter con sider the remedy; and with the conviction that rests on the mind of every man engaged ill the business, Pcr(ccly practicable. Ia king it for granted that there is no argument needed to convince any man that the cause of the ruinous low prices we are now getting for our cotton, Is 0rer production, the question that has been ten thousand times asked is how are we to arrive at concert of agree ment, and obligation to plant less {? Nothing more simple. But before l proceed to lay down my plan beg to state, that if 1t meet your appreciation as to its practicability, all other plans must be entirely abandoned, and the door entirely closed 10 discussion; for no matter how humble the individual who addresses you, yet the only possible way ol success is to take 1t dS t tS; and flatter my self that when you read it over carefully, you will agree that nothing is wanting but the CO., operation of the whole Southern Press, to steer us safely through our present difficulties and have not doubt that the press will come to our relief.
 fin easy, simple and e6ectual pzan for C
 reduction of He Cotton Crop.
 Let erery newspaper, ill every State, Terri tory and county that grows cotton, givenotice that on Monday, the 2nd day of June, l845, the citizens of each andeyery county as afor- said will meet at their respective court houses. Let notice also be given by every other pos sible means.
 Every county must meet on the same day.
 The meeting shall then be organized by the election of President, Vice President, and Secretary, and called the Cotton planters Society of---county.
 The President shall nominate sufficient number of men residing in different parts ol the county, to take the names of every cot ton planter in the county, under the following obligations, viz:
 We, whose names are hereunto subscribed. do solemnly agree and bind ourselves, that for the year lS46 and 1917, we will plant only one half the land in cotton, (hands pro- portioned) we have heretofore been in the habit of planting; provided three-fourths of the capital engaged in growing cotton enter into like obligations.
 At this meeting, on said 2nd June, num- Der of the citizens of each county will sub scribe for and pay to tie President of the Society publishe
 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 procu- ring names will be punctual in attendance. Each and every name shall then be entered alphabetically in book, kept by the sec retafy. 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 1 list ofnames subscribed to the obligation, with the tax list and then, either the tax receiver, or Clerk aforesaid, shall certify what propor- ton ol the capital ofhis county is thus pledged and he shall immediately forward the said certificate to the Governor of his State. The Governor of each State can then compare each certificate with the capital of his State engaged in growing cotton, and when he makes up his aggregate comparison and result, he will immediately make the same known by proclamation in said-----
 It is desirable that all the Governors should make their proclamation by the middle or last of October 1915.
 On Monday, 8th December, 1915, another meeting of each Society will be called in order 10 make known to cccry indiridut the result-and being ascerained by comparison of the proclamatons of each Governor, that an aggregate of three-lourths of the capital engaged in growing cotton in the said States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee and Florida, is solemnly pledged-then every man becomes sacredly bound before his God and his country, to stand by his pledge-and every man will do 1t; as 1t IS his highest interest to do it--and if there should be an agricultural traitor on the list, he will be easily detected as his name IS alphabetically spread on the record of his Society. Any person having cotton farms and residing at distance from them, can be addressed by the Presidents of the Societies in the counties containing such farms; and their agents or overseers can be instructed to subscribe for them.
 Thus IS the simple plan for remedying the evils of too much cotton, and loo HHle money. it iS practicable. Three county meetings is all that is required on our part The press of the South has already been engaged in our behalf for months past; faithfully warning us of the suicidal policy we have been pursuing. One man has said, would plant less, if could be assured that others would. Indeed, this has for years been the voice of every one. We now have the remedy in our own hands, let ns apply it. five pursue our old way ofraising more cotton because the price Is low, we are but 10 use a Western phrase, 'piling on the agony,' We are exhaustinq our lands, our negroes, our stock, ourselses :; while England is laughing in her sleeves, and mockng at our calamities She knows. as well she knows thattwo and two make four. that we arc greediy pursuing policy which ere long must make our slave property unpro- fitable-the surest way of bringing about her darling scheme of emancipation for it is universal law of nature and nations. that where property becomes not only unproduc- tive, but an actual expense to the owner, it will in time be abandoned. If WIG will bo