The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-08-31

that you are IN a free land as well as myself,
that Is what we Tank people think, that is
what makes us act as we do. Tank people
do not try to excel, but to keep even. And
as for your starting something new, you are
about to start something new indeed, If you
can come to any precision on the growing
crop; for It appears to have been the study,
from what information can get by read
ipgD of all the mercantile establishments !.
both in Europe and America, to come at
some true estimate; but we see them fall
far short of it. with interest To stimulate
them to their study.
If they could come at the production
while in growing state, knowing as they
do the consumption, there would be no need
for so much loss in the traffic Of cotton
You seem to intimate that am to be charge
able with the downfall Of cotton. Well if
my few early blooms knock down the mar
ket, will have to bear it with the rest of
you. For did not think that Tank, with
good crop could make any, or scarcely any
difference, rs the State of South Carolina Is
considered so small in making up the amount
necessary for the consumption of the whole
world, to say nothing "of the rest Of man.
kind
would prefer the large or true estimate,
the large estimate Is not very injurious to
any part Of our community, agricultural, or
commercial. If the estimate is large the
farmer may lose little at the commence
ment on his fair article but he will make il
up to o~ards spring on his inferior cotton, but
if the representation is too small, We lose
more on the inferior than we make on the
fair. But should prefer the true estimate;
then nobody is hurt, the merchant is not
hurt the farmer gets what the foreign mar
kct will warrant, and the man who has no
gin is cnaclcd 10 got his cotton off nj tho
same rate Of his more fortunate neighbor, or
nearly so Mr.. J. r. H., you want me to
hold up the man that wrote my piece for me,
till you take peep at him; that is just what
| am trying TO do. am not quite so illitc-
rate rs you took me TO be, for can blotch
out my own piece. That makes Il worse 10
think that man of your learning, should
take up n man that he considered unqualified
to compete with himself and this is the
only apology expect TO offer for the or
rangemcnt of my piece that appeared some
time ago.
am suPeratively happy to find in tho
person of sir. J. r. II. or his dictator, my
old friend of the telegraph, long since lost
to view. In speaking of lightning's speed,
&c, he revealed an old acquaintance Of mine
that had il not been for the revelation. must
have rcmaired forever lost TO me. But
while rejoice in the discovery of an old as
sociate, ] must beg licve to urge that ho
omitted considerable portion of tho narra-
tive that nevertheless has made me to feel
such ccstatic JOY.
Ny friend says, that IL hitchcd my horse
but hc should nave done me justice, for we
were both there on borrowed horses, and
"hen took NV horse AWAY fso,n that drat-
ted MACHINE, says he, "Fricnd, let him stay
and let US see it work." .No sir ~ saws /.
III you want to see it work, put your horse
there "I don't care If do" says ne, for
hes not mine no how" So up he rides,
hitchcs his horse to the post, alights and
takes seat upon log, and says: snow
stranger lets see her go it."
About this time left, and the last saw
oi my friend he still occupied his seat seem.
ingiy intent npon "seeing her 90 it."
II the above conversation be admitted by
Mr. J, X. ii. or his dictator, own we must
have seen each other, as he supposcs if not
there must be some mistake about the mat.
ter.
As you have quit the garden and gone 10
the field, your piece would call for some in.
formation on the culture of cotton, and il
would make me happy to accommodate Won,
but you have opened such an extensive field
Tor thought, that if was to take up all the
points fear should not be admitted into
our most excellent Paper
But hoping you may be Informed upon the
subject, shall bid you adicu.
/ JNO. s. PERRY.