The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-12-17
CAROLINA. SPARTAN.
CORRgsPoSDENCR OF CAROLINA SPARTAN.
GREEN County, ARKANSAS,
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GREEN GoUNTY, ARKANSAS,
%e November IL, 1851.
MEssRs. CAvIs & TRIMMER: / ask the
privilege, as one Of your subscribers, to an.
swer an editorial on the first page Of the
Spartan. of the 22d October, headed Emf
gration.* My reason for asking the per-
mission do is this: | am South Caro-
linian by birth and education-and that
State has charms 10 me over any other. My
neighbors are also generally South Carroll
mans. :.
Now, sir, / suppose when you speak of
persons emigrating to the West you allude
to Arkansas AS well as other Western States
You say hundreds are breaking up and
leaving good homes to settle in an almost
uncivilized country. Now, my dear srs,
so far as Arkansas is concerned l demur to
the charge Of uncivilized. believe that in
proportion 10 our age and population we
have more newspapers published in this
State than are now in yours-and, if mis-.
take not this is the standard by which edi-
tors measure civilization and refinement
But to prove, sirs, that we are little more
civilized than you might suppose, will
state few facts: Do you not recollect a
few years back, how Maj, Borland figured
in the United States Senatel And certain
ly you have not forgotten Col. Ashley, who
was, soon after entering the United States
Senate, chosen chairman of the Judiciary
Committee!
will now speak more directly Of my i'm.
mediate vicinity. think we have but one
drinking shop in this county and Cherokee
and school houses are common. heard
circuit preacher Of the Methodist Church
say sometime before his year was oul that
he had taken into the Church for that part
Of the year between three and four hun.
dred members, and his circuit did not in,
clude much more than half the county
Also, not long since witnessed missiona
~ collection taken up in quite lhinly-
populated part Of the county, and only a
small collection Of people present, and Sl2o
were collected in few minutes. Olher de.
nominations are equally as liberal and pros
porous as the Methodist. You must re-
member we have only eight hundred voters
As to schools: Two young men from your
District have been teaching in my neigh
borhood the past summer and fall. Their
schools were well conducted, and I have
heard Of no complaints, either from teach
ers, employers, or children. In the centre
of every township (Which is sikh miles square)
there are $40 acres of land set apart for
school purposes.
And next with regard TO responsibility:
1t is very common to pay men in advance,
and they appear to have confidence in each
other. know men n-who have business deal
ings to the amount of many hundred col
lars, and perhaps, neither note nor receipt
ever passed between them. Ny nearest
neishbor, who is physician and Caro-
lnian, and has been here fifteen years, has
never sued but one man for medical bill:
and he furthermore assures me that the
medical bills do not amount 10 fity cents
to each member Of the family yearly the
countoy YER.
Now, gentlemen, think have answer.
ed IN some degree the alarm created bv the
correspondent Of the AshevIle On. C) Spec
tator. have no doubt but that that young
man has got "skeered" by the hoot of the
owl, or by some old granny's ghost story.
Oh, what was Buncombe thirty years ago!
now admit that we do really need your
spare population, provided they are honest,
industrious, and enterprising. But If they
are iazy and indolest, and come here poor,
they Will remain poor. And why we need
your spare population is this: We have
great quantities of good vacant lands here
waiting for some industrious Carolinan or
Virginian to settle down on. These lands
can be entered at fifty cents per acre. And
this is the way would in general advise
emigrants to do: Select these lands and en-.
ter them from the Government, ard do no,
suffer yourselves to be cheated. For if Won
buy well'improved lands you will have to
pay for them certain. Orr good lands will
yield 75 bushels Of corn per acre 80 of
wheat, 1000 pounds seed cotton, I.5oO
pounds tobacco, 100 bushels of Irish po,a.
toes, 200 bushels Of Sweet potatoes. This
can be done on good lands. in good crop