Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-12-06

sixteen per cent. if it had cost only twent.! ,eh
thousand dollars per mile. In this particular I'VE i've
road enjoys peculiar advantages since it will 'ouf
less than the Massachusetts,, New York, Eir's.:"
South Carolina or Georgia railroads, and o5 ~
account, Other things being equal, will Weld ma maj
ter dividends. The next question is what viii y
its effect upon real estate. To determine III
must be guided by experience Land aon ns We
South Carolina railroads, says Col GadsdenS s Ie
appreciated in value fifty, FIVE hundred, ana ;S
some instances FIVE thousand per cent Sroa
results have taken place in Georgia Land on ~
line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad hos
creased in value three hundred peEcent. since u.
construction. The President of the Madison ..S
Indianapolis railroad says, land on the linz -
our road has increased in value fifty per cent x;no.
we commenced building it." In Virginia the II
crease in the value of land from 1919 to 1894
period of 10 years, was only S5,036, $50 Will,
during the last twelve years, from 1888 to 1870
it has been 500, 749 7I8, and this vast increase
the last twelve years is mainly, if not solely. a.
tributable to her public works. In Tennessee
land on the Nashville and Chattanooga road which
is not vet completed and on the East Tennessee
and Georgia road is increasing in value constant.
w. The gain in the value of taxable property IN
four counties on the Nashville and Chattanooy,
road since it was commenced has been So 554 Ga
which if | mistake not is more than the wbol.
u l
ples-as it has been every where else so it will h
here Nor is this value merely nominal. The in.
creased facilities for the transportation of produe,
render the productions of the land more valuable
and these impart an additional value to the land
itself. To bring your rich and beautiful prairie
lands within twelve hours run of Mobile, twenty
four hours of Cincinnati and three days of New
Y ork, must make them more valuable than they
now are and as the lands Immediately the line Of
the road increase in value those which are morere.
mote will appreciate thong not great extent
There is another view of this subject which
will briefly notice and which is applicable to all the
railroads in the Southern States. Why is it that
of the &c, 600 miles of railroad in the Q. States
only about g, 600 are in the Southern States It
is not owing to the want of ability in the Southern
people to build railroads In 1849 the exports
from the Southern States $50 900 600, and
from the Northern $50, COO, goo. In 1851 the
cotton alone exported from the Southern States was
$97 600, coo, not including that consumed in the
Northern States and in the South. The value Of
the cotton consumed by the Northern manufactu-
rerS this year something more than twenty
millions of dollars out of which they doubtless re-
allied handsome profits. The. whole world is de.
pendent, in a great degree, upon the Southern
States for cotton, since out of the twelve hundred
millions of pounds raised about eight hundred and
forty five millions raised in the Southern States
of this Union. 1t is the cotton of the Southern
States that spreads the sails of British commerce
and enriches the manufacturers and ship-owners
of the Northern States. The Southern trade has
built up their cities, made their merchants princes
and given food and subsistence to thousands Of
their poor laborers.
! The Northern people by their continued inter
terence with our institutions forcing TO take
steps to defend ourselves. Their object is 10 con-
fine slavery within present limits, so as to break
down the institution by an increase of slave popu-
latlon If we will adopt wise and energetic pol
ICY they will suffer more from this cause than We
will Our true remedy is to seek new avenues for
slave labor by bringing 1t directly in competition
with AeFsasesa l@ssss II. r---.--l-s :,
in factories and in building railroads, thus NAV
partly counterfeit the evils of an excessive slave
population, which some at the North are anxious
to force upon US. Ii one-sixth of the labor now
employed in the cultivation of cotton should next
year be employed in building railroads the guam
tity raised by the remaining hve-sixths would bring
more money than ii all had been engaged in rails
ing cotton The diminished quantity would be
more than made up by the increased price. The
crop Of 1848 was 378 $50 bales more than that of
1850 yet the crop of 1850 brought near SAC, Geo.
O00 more than did that of I349. This shows tina.
by applying portion of the labor used in raising
cotton TO the construction of railroads the value
of the cotton crop will not be diminished but rath
er increased and the railroads be made as clear
gain. Not only so but your lands will then, in
stead of being injured by excessive cultivation
have an opportunity to improve by more Judi
cous treatment. This is to my mind an exceed
ly interesting and important view of the subject.
We must, if we wish to preserve our rights, rem
der ourselves commercially and industrially indie
pendent.
10 do this we must manufacture portion of the
cotton which we raise and not be dependent for
the clothes which wear and the food which We
eat upon other sections. To manufacture success
fully We must have railroads to carry off our fab
res Manufacturing establishments follow rail-
| roads as the night the day Georgia has over
nine hundred miles of railroad and as a conse
quence she has in operation 40 cotton mills, using
$4,000 spindles and consuming $4,000 bales Of
cotton per annum, whilst Alabama with equally
as many natural advantages, has in operation only
a factories, 1850 spindles and 800 looms, con-
sumlng $500 bales OF cotton per annum.* Re-
suits similar to those IN Georgia will take place IN
Alabama, Tennessee and the other Southern States
when they, like Georgia, are penetrated by rail-
roads Ii Is time for the Southern people to arouse
themselves IN reference to this subject The signs
OF the times at the North it is be disguised,
are ominous of evil. We should be prepared for
The worst. Let US forget our past differences and
unite as one man with one heart and with one pur-
pose, tor the protection of our rights and the pres
ervatlon of our institutions. To you, citizens Of
Lowndes county, l will take the liberty of saying
lew words. 1t appears that nothing now pre-
vents the contracts being let out for the building
! of this road to the Southern harder Of Pontotoc