The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1846-11-18

'plit, ant! the means bv which she was II
tast saved, has exercised u salulary nilr
, ence oyrr,housnn,ls LIT some rclorme,
!urmcr do the same. towards cnrc,ing a.
agricultural relorns, a;;;! lie same. m Gu s,,r
Of success will crown the effort.
But, however much agricultural survey
Wild towards advancing our agriculture
interest, the creation Of new agriculture
wants will d." still more. Take II lamiiia
instance. A few years since, the ChnrI cs
ton vegetable market was lie mos, miseru
! able in the Union: because its citizens
were not vcgctable-using people. A new
population with new wants has grown up
iand behold the consequence. The Charles
ton vcgeiable-markel has become ono %
the best supplied in the Union; a lars,
amount Of capital is employed in farn,in.
for that purpose; aud fully 100000 is an
nnnily derived from this source of labor
a large domestic trade is thus put in mo
tion, and moi only this, Charleston, Iik,
some Of her Northern Sisters, is beginning
to carry OH an export trade in several kinds
of vegetables; and The Northern cities ar.
now the annual purchasers Of some thou.
sands OF dollars Of The Iabors Of our Charles
ton turner's.
The depressed condition Of our agricul.
lure has been So often presented to us, that
we are apt TO consider it worse than il
really is. We must not be deceived how
, ever. While our agricultural resources
nave been very impcriecllv developed, our
planters and farmers ore far from being in
the distressed state represented. And il
we look at the present and past condition
OF our agriculture, it will appear that nur
planters have actually undergone many i'm
pr"vcnenls. The traveller passing lhrous h
any District in South Carolina, will OBJ
serve that well built cottages mud ia many
places elegant mansions, have taken the
places Of the rude log houses of former
times; he will find The style Of living
amongst nll classes improved even To luxu-
ry; nc will sec education murc generally
'''ii"sed' and refinement in many places
rcrvading, where thirty years ag',. was to
DC founu the greatest rnsticity aud rude
'css. 10 bring out all this reform, must
nave cost something; and the people must
have been at work 10 ray for it. We will
moi grant, therefore, that South Carolina
has been doing nothing in the march of
improvement, or i'll The making Of money.
But at the same time we contend, she has
not done hundre,lth part she ought 10
have done, with the numerous resources u,
her cnmmsn nd.
A volume might lie written in pointing
out the many cases. in which n liberal in
vcstmcnt Of capital would call forth the
agricultural resources Of The Stale. We
shall instance one or two only. All along
the sea coast Of Curolina, and on the mar
gins of our rivers there nre thousands of
acres Of marsh lands which when reclaim
ed. produce the most abundant crops of
ri n1
stance where the experiment has been
made, twenty, thirty and forty per cent. on
The capital invested in their reclamation.
Lei companies he formed TO reclaim these
lands, and after reclamation, either cult
vale or sell them out. The plan is no new
or un,ircd one. II has been successfully
pracliscd elsewhere, and ut this time there
are companies on the Mississippi, whose
business is, nj immcuse profits, to reclaim
lands Tor tho uses of The planters.
We state it upon reliable authority that
nearly one million Of dollars Of SLAVE pro.
perty, have been taken AWAY from two or
three parishes Of this Slate within twenty
years, solely from the want Of few thou
SAND dollars Of capital to drain certain
swamps and irrigule some Of The best rice
lands of South Carolina. Had i, been 9th
cr%ise our State would this day have re-
tnlned large portion Of The slave popula-
lion that has gone West; and the wealth
and taxes arising from these sources would
have still been here, 10 divide amongst her
people.
Let those patriotic capitalists who know
nothing Of the resources Of Carulinu,
but the commissions on the sale of her
Rice and Cotton-lcl those who are ctcr.
nally prating about what lazy people we
are, while they, lordIy, sirs, have one hand
on all Bank issues, aud The other in The
pockets Of the honest farmers; let these pn.
per money anuiaclurers-,hcsc devou,-
faced stock jobbcrs and commercial gam.
blcrs-spunge.likc, soak the lile-blo0d OF
tho country and then pray God The victim,
may not die. Let them, we say, posses
cunning and more honesty; learn the diff
ference between reck!esss pecuIalion nnd
true economical wisdom, or if that be pas
praying for, let n just sense of in.lisnu,io,
rise upin the breasts Of the people, un,
such impnsters shall be driven from ou
places Of honor aud popular trust; and tn,
Planter Of Carolina will then be known b,
another name, than that, OF The Lazy Dri
:; vcrs Of Slaves.
! GRAFTIH0 THE TnMaTo upoN THE Po
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