Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-06-06
STATE OF AGRICULTURE IN SoUrH CAR

STATE OF AGRICULTURE IN SoUTH CAR
oLINA-A writer in the Charleston her
cary speaks in the following terms Of the
agricultural interests Of South Carolina:
"The time has come when the people Of
South Carolina must take decided steps to
prevent their State from being drained Of
It's agricultural capital and labor which we
all know is the great strength Of every
country. We have succeeded in. exhaust
ING and wearing ont our laads, until it is
next to impossible for farmer TO make
even small interest on his capital invest
ed. The fact of It Is, that there is not one
planter ID d hundred that can make corr
reet calculation of what his property and
personal labor yields him. If our State
had not been remarkably healthy for ne
groes, and consequently made multiplica
ton large, where would the agricultural in
terest Of the State have been? 1t would
have, of necessity, been extinct. Nothing
but the great increase in negroes has kept
us from being barren waste; and why
Because not one man in hundred that
took charge Of his property ever knew
what lie was going about or what he had to
do. 70 my certain knowledge, there IRE
many Young men in the State who start to
plant, that actually no not know the first
rudiments Of agriculture; and what's more
they seldom or ever know any more, ex-
cept, may be what they pick up from their
fathers old driver, who ding dongs into
them what .old mass" used to do; and SO
liz has gone on to this time, when we are
still under the curse of an "old massa"
state of agriculture"
/ The writer believes the state Of things
which he 50 graphically and Faithfully de.
seribes. can Be remedied be sending men
of talent to the State Legislature, and by
establishing an Agricultural College for
| teaching young men who are likely to be-
come planters, the mysteries Of farming.
A very innocent delusion, truly
THg OREGON Abiding to
the formation Of State Government in
the Territory, says:
With the Constitution will undoubtedly
be submitted to the people seperate pro
visions making it both a slave and free
State, and whichever receives a majority
of the vote Of the electors, will thereby be-
leone part Of the fundamental law
Which Of these propositions will be success
ful we cannot, and care not to predict
That is not to our purpose; we set out to
show that the slavery restretian contained
in our organic law, and under which we
have existed as Territory for about nine
years, has had, and is likely to have no IN
huence in framing the institutions Of the
state. And we think there is not . can
/ did man in Oregon, conyersent with pubic
sentiment, who will undertake to maintain
the opposite. At no time during Oregon s
existence has there been 50 strong q party
in favor Of SlQverg IL Oregon, as there is
to day, and ifto-day il is not 10 the ascen-
| dant. it has never been. If a majority Of
the people are in favor Of and about to q
don't a pro-slayery constitution, at no time
heretofore would the Legislative Assem-
| bIv. if it had been empowered, adopted
! slavery. Thus, 50 far as the prospective
State Of Oregon will be effected, the Viii
mot proyiso, thrown over US BY Congress,
has been utterly without influence OF Ell
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| WAGES OF ENGLISH FARM LABoRERs.-
rhe latest English papers state that the
farmers in some of the agricultural districts
have reduced the wages Of their laborefs