The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-11-26

corn, wheat, barely and oats. You then
can raise all your bacon, keep your stocks
OF horses, hogs, cattle and sheep in thriv-
ing condition, and in five years out of six
you will always have an abundance to sup
ply home wants and the wants of your
neighbors, and surplus to ship to Coum-
b'a or Charleston to supply the suspended
banks with gold and silver.
[ would not have YOU infer from my
urging the necessity Of reducing the num-
Der of acres planted in cotton, that am in
favor of diminishing the production Of cot
ton, as was recommended by Gov. liam.
mond in 1913. And especially upon the
ground he then urged, that the production
of the raw material had now exceeded the
demand, and had fallen so low in price, that
we cou.d not compete with the South wcs-
tern States in its production. By no means.
We know toe vel! !!:a! power and influence
it exercises over the civilized world. And
we well know that instead of cotton falling
lower since 1s43. it has advanced steadily
to the high price Of sixteen cents, in the
face Of large crops, and one Of the most
expensive wars that has ever hecn unlerta-
ken ty the great powers of Europe. Tho
fact is conclusively shown from carefully
prepared statistics, that the demand for the
raw material, is now greater than tho pro-
duc,ion, and is likely to continue so for
years to come-Central Africa, Algeria or
India, to the bow in the midst Of the finan-
cial crisis, which threatens to sweep down
in its current all the agricultural, manuf,c-
turing, and mechanical interests Of the
country. Although we are now at the COM
menccmcnt of another expensive war be-
tween England and her East India posses
we are in the midst Of anot H.
er financial crisis, yet the Southern planter
is better prepared to meet the present crisis
than they are in any other portion Of this con
federacy. We have not been specua,ing
and tock,jobbing in wild schemes of inter-
nal Improvements and North h-western lands.
We have been tiling the soil and the re-
suits Of our labors are well filled
barns and plenty of cotton to pay all
our debts and surplus to loan to our
neighbors or assist in developing the re-
sources Of our State.
Had it not been for some of our banks
in sending their funds 10 the North and en-.
terlng into the gambling speculation held
out there i'll stocks, and Southern merchants
paper-in sending their funds to the Yves
tern States to be made use of by spccula-
tors and their agents, we would not have
been reduced to our present dependent 20.
sition upon the North. Some of our banks,
by diverting their funds from the legitimate
objects for which they were created, have
been curse to the State, instead of bless
ing. The very time that they are needed
to assist the merchant and planter, is the
very time they deny all assistance, and shut
their doors in the face of the distress thew
have been the prime cause of producing in
our country. These .tung; upon our pros.
perity should be extcrminated root and
branch. hope our Legislature will take
such decided steps as will bring them back
to the sound principles OF banking upon
gold and silver and not upon exchange, and
confine their operations within the limits of
South Carolina.
10 recur to the question of ovcr-produc-
ton, then we say that the civilized world
must have clothing. England must have
cotton-her gold must come for it, or her
millions of halffed laborers would rise nm
and give the death blow to her lauded aris-
tocracy. She has no plantations to rely
upon. No Egypt, Surat or India can com
pete will, US. 1t is then idle nonsense 10
talk about over.production in the face of
the present crops, and what will t.. the de-
mand for the next twelve months. Iwould
have you, if possible, to make moro cotton :;
but at the same time l would have you
raise an abundant supply Of every article
OF grain and every species of stock re
quired for the consuInptions of the planta.
ton.
In order to carry on tho work of i'm
provement upon your farms, would have
you adopt the only system By which you
can keep your fertile lands IN good heart,
reclaim your exhausted soil, and that is the
rotation system. Let your farms be divided
into three grand divisions, If practicable,
and plant one.third in cotton, one-ahird IN
corn and peas, and SOW down one-third in
whest, barley and oats. Follow cotton
with corn, and corn with your small grain
crops. If you have land to spare, let your
stubble land lie in fallow Tie fourth wear
In this way, one-third Of your land will he
rested every third year in winter crops,
which natures early in the spring, and
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