The southern press., 1851-11-01
The ImproyIdent Sauth.

Our readers cannot have failed to notice the
frequent paragraphs relating to an anticipated
ia nine in parts OF Alabama, and the apprehend.
ed evil affords an admirable text 10 preach q
sermon on the improyIdence of the cotton grow.
ing States generally Cotton, cotton, from the
first day OF the year 10 the last, is the eternal
cry Of the Southern planters; and now that this
product has for some time past realized some
thing like remunerating prices, provision crops
Of every kind have been comparatively neglect.
ed. Corn Is scarce, and high throughout the
South generally at this time; aud even the
commonest necessaries OF life, bacon, eggs,
chickens, butter, &c, are scarcely TO be had for
love or money. The Sumter Wing, Of Alabama,
has the following paragraph, which indicates
the state 81 things Ia that section:
awhile this state Of affairs lasts, will our
country frieGds remember US and send in some.
thing for us 10 live ont Il is true we have
mad little prairie beef at and cents per
pound, and so far flour has been plenty at 81
so per hundred pounds, but this Is about an
We can get no butter, chickens, eggs, nor
nothing-not even corn, the staff Of life. Some
planters have been around US wanting 10
know If we would give them one dollar per
bushel for cortland we understood on yester.
day that there was some Western bacon in town
- NShso foa BVuHus |" ~ huUt Vi OuT
country friends bring us in some potatoes and
peas lfthey do, the world may wag on"
On reading this, the Mobile Herald has the
following just remarks, which are applicable TO
almost every locality at the South.
"If these men In Sumter were MT our breth.
rem, we should say LET them starve! They de-
serve no better fate:
No country anywhere in the world has more
fertile lands tan this Of Sumter. IL will pro-
duce potatoes, corn, wheat, oats, apples, pears,
peas, beets, cabbage, caulihowers, hogs, meat,
cattle, sheep, chickens-and everything else that
civilized and luxurious man needs; aud this, too,
without any manner Of nursing or coaxing Ils
people ought to be able 10 stand up and say
TO all the rest Of the world, you may 90. We
need none Of your aidr For rivers, in emer
gencies, they ought 10 have profound contempt
The price Of bacon or corn IN this or any other
mart ought 10 be 10 them as the price Of opium
in the marts OF Canton--yet Sumter has 80
stultified itself, that upon the coming Of rain
whose absence is not singular in this region
lit falls into travail, like pismires suddenly
overtaken in August by a frost---and has No
rest save in the hope that the elements will let
fall their sympathetic tears, and Gil up their
rivers TO bring bacon and -Four from the far
Vest"
The planters Of the Southern States have
been lectured on this point for quarter Of
century, and yet it oil has been Of little avail
Money for horses, mules, bacon, and corn still
flow from their purses, and in larger streams
as cotton is high. They ought to calculate,
make balance sheet, d, our word for It, they
will find they are losing under the present sys.
TEN Of production. We have no hesitation in
saying that this exclusive devotion TO cotton i
impoverishing the South and Gripping her
energies-Cwoiinicn