The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-06-12
CLIMATE, PRODUCTS AND MIND-NoRTH AND
SQUTH

In the June number of DeBow's Review,
Dr. +. II. Barton, of New Orleans, has
published very full and able paper upon
this subject. The following extract expo
ses some popular fallacies:
"lnstead of weakening us, as alleged,
slavery adds greatly to our military strength
MS n nation. All warlike countries have
been slave States. 1t furnishes the sincws
by which war is supported. While other
nations absolutely require from five to eight
men to carry on industrial pursuits to main
tain one in the field, nearly our whole white
male population, already trained to arms
and warlike pursuits in degree far exceed
ing that of any other people, is ready for
defensive or offensive war; and neither our
brethren north of US nor any other nation,
can furnish similar example of proud in
dependence.
"The South is accused of weakness, i'll
dolence, and cffeminacy. The strongest and
largest animals known to man have their
nativities, their homes in the South. No
Northern man has a physical strength or
physical endurance superior to the Kroomen
on the coast Of Africa, nor can bear a
greater burden than the Mexican; and in
relation to our own country, 1 have before
referred to the physical perfection and in
| tellectual superiority Of tho natives in the
elevated parts of the Southern States. The
comparison with any people will hold good
II applied to any portion of them. Indo-
lencc does not belong to tho Angln-Saxon
race, however it may attach to others, and
finds its refutation in every page Of our his
tory and on every acre of our territory.-
And the accusation of cffelninacy is SLAM
der that finds its answer in every field Of
our country's victories, and on the deck of
every naval battle, where the prowess of
America has shed its blood for the rights
of man.
Sin nothing, then, need the South shrink
il comparison with TIC Northern portion of
this Union. Not only has it been built up
and enriched by the products of Southern
industry, ba: some Of the pr;ncirs! nations
OF the world are dependent OH the Southern
States, not only for their social existence
and stability. Here, in fact, resides the
goose which lays the golden eggs; here is
the fountain which originates the wealth of
modern nations, and especially of the
Northern part of this nation. Her mer-
chants, her manufacturers, her shipping, her
seanen, all derive employment and wealth
from these much slandered Southern States.
A hurricane, or late or early frost that
destroys the cotton crop Of n considerable
portion of the South, is felt in all the mar
kets of the world to the EXTREMIST range of
civilization. Drought or floods, which ma
teriaIly injure the cereal crop, causes gaunt
famine to stare millions in the face, and
becomes the harbingcr of frightful pcsti-
lence.
"Nor arc there any sound grounds for
the opinion that the South is not rs suscep
tible of dense population as the North.
The capacity to sustain large population
depends upon the productiveness of the soil
for those articles which are necessary to
support human life, and this has been
shown by the extensive prevalence Of its
capacity to produce every species Of the
cerealia in such eminent profusion; and the
question might be safely left here. But
there is scarcely an article that nourishes
man which is not more easily and abun-
dainty produced in the South than in the
North. In lie more Southern portion,
where two crops # grain las before said)
can be produced every year on the same
soil, and garden vegetables and fruit in the
utmost abundance, they do not always exist
Of the same quality in the South as at the
North, merely because We are not compelled
to exercise the same care in their cultivation
for livelihood, and because the larger and
more important staples are more profitable,
and we have not to depend for sustenancc
or comfort on the minor productions, as
those in less favored regions.
"1n the South we are comparatively free
from certain disagrsements, no bigotry, no
ridiculous humbugs about women's rights,
false philanthropy or pseudo religion each
attends to his own business, and is conten-
ted under the blessings kind Providence
showers upon us in such exhaustless pro-
fusion.
"H, then, We compare the soil and pro-
ductions, agricultural and mineral, the eli.
mate and salubr;ty, the scenery, the CON-
forts and refnesneuts of life which give il a
charm, the intellectual and moral qualities
which give elevation in the scale of high
civilization, those which produce its wealth
and those which assure its independence,
We have no reason 10 complain"
| g. II Voeation.-A gentleman loafer, re-
esn.|y arrested in Cincinnati. being quss-
Itionod by kha officer "a IN l,;s vnsot3o,, -.