The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-03


since was struck with the remarks of a highly
intelligent gentleman in tracing out "the history
of a cotton bale" Looking at the production
and consumption Of cotton, which forms the
foundation and enters into the most minute SUI
perstruction of the commercial world, and de-
liberating on the history of bale, has led me
to thinking upon this subject--a subject of i'm
portant and vast concern to the mind of the
serious and thoughtful man, as involving a
multitude of interests, and pointing to the
manifest destiny of our country-to be stu
died by the political economist. as well as the
patriotic native Of this southern clime-and
grower of this inestinlable and most indispen-
slble commodity to the successful operation Of
all branches of trade.
Take the seed of the cotton, and in planting
them employment is given to millions of people
that would otherwise lack something to occupy
| their time and became almost a curse to our
main cotton growing region--I mean the negro
population. This class of operatives are occu
pied in preparing to plant, planting, cultivating.
gathering, ginning, packing, and hauling the
raw material to market, and in this way the
planter-the prop and support Of the whole
commercial worlds occupied the year round.
t The warehousemen comes irst to take his
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railroad and steamboat are literally supported;
the sea port town kept alive and active by king
cotton--tbe wharfmaster the drayman, the
storer, the weigher, the samplerthe seller Its
/ now in the hands of q man who expects to
make it pay handsomely for buying as well as
the expense for re-pressng, insurance, freight
to New York. perhaps en- route for Liverpool,
Now look what hordes, what thousands of
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wharf owners, pickcrs, manufacturers, and
what-not it gives profitable employment to!
When it starts back in the prints, etc. paying
liberally to every handler until it falls through
the importers clutches, into the possession of
the stock -jobber in New York or Boston, and
is brought hither bv our southern rights mer-
chants to get back from the planter evenowhat
he sold the raw material for. Cotton is merely
| a king in more than one respect! 1t travels in
| prncely style! comforting munfcence to millions
and strewing wealth in its track! hence it is
poorer at home than elsewhere and the indus
trious grower finds it often difficult to make an
honest living aside from the natural increase of
negro property.
The south is the heart Of the world and bot
tom of its blood it is sent out through the
worlds great arteries-thc channels of trade
| dli LitS dliO otICu5tH
| in, and giving health to the whole mass, of
/ digestive apparatus which assimiaes from
mother earth this life and power giving mate
rial. 1t is useless to enumerate the blessings
and the bounties that flow from the toll of the
planter and his slaves. Indeed he is only the
instrumentin the hands of Higher being, who
owns US ALL In dwelling upon this subject our
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wrongs on the part of unscrupulous partisans
awakens unkind feelings toward one-half of
our great land, and we are led to think that if
our planters, who are engaging in uncertain
railroad speculatlons, would form companies
for purchasing vessels to carry cotton TO and
| bring its manufactured materials from Europe,
! direct from and to southern ports, making tho
north feel her dependence on the south; while
the south would be handsomely paid, there
would be less sectional strife and better rela-
tons established between the two parts of our
country. Let the planter resolve to supercede
the host, at his own door, who rely on him for
support, the factors and spectators. -. Let
southerners be southerners, and practice south
ern rights instead of preaching it. Let them
rely not on the north as agents. The north
has already grown fat and saucy as the agent
Of the south, and she knows well the loss of
southern patronage you'd be felt severely
would be acaIanity of serious import and one
that would bring her to say "bold, enough!"
The fact is, without any wish to appear a brag
gart, our planters the handspring. the prop
and stay Of this government, they are the con-
troIlers, if they can ever be made TO believe it,
and possesses the wealth and power to bring,
not only the northern States at their feet, but
the whole civilized world.
| The four millions of bales Of cotton which,
we make per annum, Cor will make this year,
in addition to corn, wheat, sugar rice, tobacco.
and meat, with our vast mineral resources, are
enough to form the basis of all commercial
Misunderstanding the foundation OF cvll-
zaton religion, refinement, the arts, sciences.
etc, etc. Cotton Planter and Soil.
The Daily Crescent publishes the following
notice of a firm which enjoys the confidence
and patronage of hundreds of our readers:
E. J. HART Il Coin naming this old and
wel-known grocery house, We can point to it
as model establishment of the kind; one Of
the most solid foundation stones of the com
MERGE of New Orleans, a fortune to it's gentle
manly and enterprising proprietors, and CEN
! ter of usefulness to the whole southern country;
'oi ltS le'uN lttS Soutii
west.
Any country merchant seeking place where
he may lay in the best of everything in the
largest quantities and at the most liber prices
will find such place, and will be sIuck by
two things particularly upon entering the housr
of E. J. Hart IL Co. First, the immense Tyar-
tity and variety of goods slowed away, piled
up and crammcd on the four floors Of gter
large double building on Tchoupoul sire
and secondly, the ease and facility wiz which
an order may be filled by means Of 'hs sam
ping room, and the admirable systen2 .bgo09L-
out, which enables the vast business of the
establishment to glide along like clockwork,
/ Always in direct communication will at! the
producing parts of the world, cargoes Of every
imaginable thing in the grocery and liquor linz
! are continually coming to them oyer the oceans,
aud then, in smaller lots, going off agaia by
river rail, and sea, to the widely scattered
! dealers throughout the south who deal with the
| renowned house.
/ GIRE FOR CONsUMPTION-Ihe French Env-