True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-08-12

AGRICOLA
For the True Democrat.
Ballad for the Farmer.
Poor honest Farmer, listen well,
And lend me your attention
While the doom of sloth foretell,
And cause of your declension.
Vain Independence is your theme,
Nor boasts of wealth forgotten,
Yet night beholds you wrapt in dreams
About your farms of cotton.
Fifteen or twenty acres more
You'll put in cultivation,
AS soon as you begin to plow
You'll make your calculation:
Each acre more within your farm,
Though rains may make all rotten)
Will make one thousand pounds, or more
Good genuine Seed Cotton
The Madam wants linen cap,
Miss Liza wants a bonnet,
Young master wants bran new hat,
The servant needs blanket;
Our little girls and little boys,
Not one must be iolgotten,
So chicks in death must cease their noise
The children picked the cotton.
But little sums to large will grow,
This ought to be reflected
Like crownng streams which overflow,
The fool is selfdelected.
Paw day most sure y comes at last
Your bill you have forgotten;
One minute now you cannot rest
The merchant calls for Cotton
Good times are DER, now comes the worst,
The sheriff taps your shoulder
d" Come fork the cash for debt and cost,
Nv GOOD old stiff freehoIder /"
Now times are hard and trade is dull,
Good custom is forgotten,
The laws the trap and debt the broom,
That sweeps away our cotton
Nv cotton lost it may be found
Far over ocean swimming;
NV woman cannot raise pound
Not even for her spinning.
To tell the truth, full well know
am so thundcrstrucken,
To save my life could not show
One dollar for my cotton
Now for the future I'll take care
TO raise my own consumption,
And then, what little can spare
Is mine, free from "inlunctions"
And now I'll watch those merchants we'll
Hard times are not forgotten
The merchants | would let them starvc
Before they get my cotton
TIL eat my pork and bacon ham,
Likewise my milk and butter,
And when | drink drap Of dram
I'll make the chicken fuuerl
And for my shorten cake and stake,
Good stall fed beef and mutton;
o now a sumptuous meal I'll take
And still-retain my cotton
Nv wife and daughters I'll entreat
To make of their own spinning,
And never run me so in debt
To CRAFTY their funning.
The merchants they may chew their cuds
Till every tooth is rotten,
Before again take their goods
And promise them my cotton.
The merchants soon their books will close
Lorg time they have been waiting,
Nor knew one hours calm repose
While cotton debts entreating:
o now the liulc Ioppish gips
Who look so ill-begotten,
Can throw away their segar-pipes
And PAY THE CASH FOR COTTON
Newton County. JAS G. BLALocK
The following is copy OF the reply
yiven by Lord Aberdeen TO the memorial
If the South American and Mexican
Association:
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 6 1916.
"Sir-I am directed by the Earl Of
Aberdeen TO acknowledge the receipt of
your letter Of the Cd inst. in which you
,al his lordship's attention TO the dSas-
rous results which are to be apprehended
rom the hostilitics which have broken out
between the United States and Mexico,
md express hope on the part Of the South
American and Mexican Association, that
her Majestys Government may interpose
heir good Offices in order TO effect a
between the two Govern