The Arkansas banner., 1845-08-13

9- great advantage of us. They have tho;r ., C. rlcultural and manufacturing societies II, e agricultural and miscellaneous naners 'c.e e.. l. Tn which the profits and a1yantaros S~o X, Il lile various pursuits in life, are, discussed an
 compared, and with promptness. skill an a,, eIefgy' t1ey sieze upon, and pursue tbos
 which yield most profit. ''e' 'noS l hese general views of the oroat and ,oo,
 "ts and measures of westarn -,,,,' a,,' ing oples -ests, the committee have en
 5ouslle.i1 5oou1 ,u'ei 7t in such way as to nh
 ta;n tbo sn,ra,.oI [ ara ecure the jealous SUD ] port of every member of tn, 00ii'en'ioh' an'
 oi every citizen of the west anu 'ootii' un
 tll their just rights and interests a.x iuiiy
 recognized by the general government m l granting them their full share of the public disbursements, for the accomplishment of
 the great works proposed; and unul they
 realize the full development of all their pe-
 culiar advantages by the cooperation of their
 unparalleled industry, energy and enterprise
 well directed, and added with their just pro-
 portion of pecuniary disbursement from the
 treasury of the United States.
 Then will the country and people of the
 west, recently much changed and improved,
 exhibit an incomparably higher condition of
 improvement, prosperity and wealth.
 Resofred ttercfore, That 1t is the interest
 and duty of the people of the west and south to carry out their interests by the accom- plshment of these great objects, and that J unlon and concerted action by public meet , lngs, memorials on national subjects to Con- gress, and every other fair and honorable
 means, should be resorted to, to present them fully and successfully before the general government, and inc people of the west and south.
 REPORT ON SOUTHERN AGRICIU- TURF.
 The committee to whom was referred eo l much of the Presidents address to this con yention, as relates to the subject of aqrcn- ture, as well as the communication snbm;t- ted by Maj. Ruflin, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to report that they approve the plan proposed, of holding
 State conventions, as a corrective of the evils that have been made the subject of such ner- vading eomplaintin the cotton-growing States In the threshold of the subject the con nit
 tee will make general r6fnark-that the
 corrective of any evil Is only 10 be found in
 a proper spirit of agriculture, with the in- [ dustry3 economy, and virtue which natural : ly follow Tn her train; and if the tendency
 oi foreign trade threatens 10 be minops to , the interests ot the cotton planter let HIS learn 10 centemn the pride of luxury and cherish the true sources of private economy
 by subsistlng on our own means, as far as practicable. Let the spirit of improvement which has totally changed the face of our
 country and the condition of the people stim
 ulate labor and capital, so that the produc
 lions ol the earth may be multiplied so as to
 meet all the wants of civilized man. A Be-
 nefcent Providence has favored us with all l the choicest advantages of successful agri-
 culture and though the price of the great
 staple ol the country has become. suddenly depressed, from the folly of over-produc-
 ton, we should recollect that, by keeping an I eye on the wants of the manufacturers. we
 can in few brief years avert the impending
 mischief No proposition is more perfectly
 obvious than that, if by an undue auementa-
 ton of the cotton crop the price of the arti-
 ele has been reduced, we have only to de- crease this state of things, and the down.
 ward tendency of inc cotton market will be at once arrested. This view of the subject IS fully sustained by the fact that the demand for our great staple by the manufacturers has
 been in no degree checked but gradually on the lncaease, in a ratio, however, wholly dis
 proportioned 10 the supply. In the enumer- alton of the permanent causes 5f the present distressed prospects of the country we should : by no mems omit to mention the prevailing ? and pernicious evil that distinguishes the - practice of southern agriculture-the almost l exclusive direction of the available labor of I the planter to the production of the great = staple commodity, and the consequent neg lect of other commodities that the soil is ca l pablo of producing, and arc required to sup . ply tie wants of the establishments. So
 long as this policy is pursued all attempts at reform are hopeless and we shall be doomed to dwell on the dark side of the picture. It 9 should be an inyiolable rule in the economy l of any planter to cultivate a large provision 9 crop, and to combine the provident process 9 of farming, in all its diversified improvements I in the system of labor.
 Let this course be steadily persevered in { few years, and two important results wifi l, be the consequence: the supply and the de- 2 mand for our great staple commodity will be : gradually equaized with corresponding ad- r vance in price, together with all the qualify - ing indications of the great truth that even - on the cotton plantation a judicious division [, of labor constitutes the true source of sollc | prosperity and wealth. No opinion is more
 practically absurd and improvident than tha z, the planter should rely alone on the staple n product of his crop to defray the disburse- s, ments of the establishment. Many laudabl( ' examples might be cited in our planting com q munity where, by an economical distribu Q ton of labor, all the necessary wants of the r plantation have been fully supplied, at tht h same time all its disbursements discharged q from its mere surplus products. Let thes' n examples become more common, and WI j. shall at once be furnished with the most sen e sible solution oi the proper remedy for III e vigorating the industrial pursuits of the cot ir ton-growing States. In connection with thu s. view of the subject recent experience de n monstates that the planter would be consul
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