Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-05-18
Farmer Il Planter.

Tho May number is received, and is well sup.
piled with good original and selected articles.
AS We happen to be the "VoIcx tiom EdyefelG
| upon whom the editor pounces with such vim, i,
will not be amiss to uss our own columns for
very brief reply.
strikes us RS being in bad taste under the eircum.
stances. 1t It's by many considered indicative o
some unfortunate lack Of tho milk of human kind.
ness, to see one reminding another unnecessarily
aponsible. But besides this, tho allusou is point
less. We were not at al psrplexcd BY ths edispr'l
inversion of the term Hillside. But when term
isonce established in general use and both
and euphonious, we do not recognize the right Of
any one to change it at hi, pleasure,ne, not even
though no be SO imposing a parsonage rs tn,
"Great Unknown" editor Of country farm jour.
nal. Our concern WAS, to have the terms Of the
agricultural business, like those Of every other
vocation, definitely fixed mot one thing in the
farmers mouth, and another thing On the agricul.
tural writer's pen. The star editor is much mis-
taken, if he supposeU that his every reader ha,
not the sense to comprehend the Importance o,
this proposition, and to estimate his violations OF
it accordingly. We, knowing this, desired to give
him caution for bis good but, In the pride Of
his photography, he makes feeble attempt to
turn our hint into rdcule, instead. of wisely pro.
fting thereby.
Ruf he ~. 80;
prehensible! Let US see how this is:
1st. We suggested that his plan of leaving all
hill-sides "uncleared' (not enclosed, as The Far.
n'er ahd Planter makes US say) would work badly
in the more billy sections of country; /; and Fair.
field District was iustancrd in this connection.
Any thing incomprehensiLle about thut. We
now say, at the risk Of being again thought in
comprehensive, that W. believe Fairfield has pur-
sued the correct plan in clearing her fertile hill
sides and drawing from them the cotton bags
which have had so much to do in making her one
of tho woalthiest and most intelligent Districts Of
the State 1t is to be regretted if, in doug this,
those hill-sides have becn seamed with ugly gull
lies But it is useless to grieve over split milk.
Better even SO, than that the ton, of thousands Of
cottonales she has derived from those hill. sides
should not haze been produced. Let her people
now 60 to work (as they doubtless are duing) and
by deep culture, liberal mauurins, and hillside
ditching, cause thoir exhausted lands to rucup.r.
ate; and Fairfield will again blossom as the rose.
In all this, where is the incumprsheusibility or
the "VoIcR|
2ndly. We asserted that hillside ditchiug had
been generally successful in our own District.
We had heard the opinions Of various planters on
the subject, and we wrote as we were informed
We had also seen with our own eyes the success.
ful working of the system, which enabled Us to
give the opinions of others With greater confidence
The star editor professed in his FIRST article to seek
" other mems experience in this ve1ed matter"
We responded to his request in the plainest kind
OF English and he turns upon US and pronounces
our =" voice incomprehensible. Is ho dissatisfied
because our testimony in favor Of the system WINS
mere assertion7 So ras his testimony aqaiust il.
We do not admit that the star editors a,sort;on.
are of more authority than our own and uo AL
most know they are not worth US much as the
opinions Of certain intelligent farmors whose views
We had parpossly ascertainod On this resata quc.-
tic. Tho "voioe from Edsuield," then, is incom-
prehensible, fOrsooth simply because it dares to
challenge the naked and unsupported assertions of
tho Farmer d Planter. Beautiful logic, that!
We have perhaps said about enough. It is not
dosirod by us to have showing of these comments
in the next or any succeeding number of the Far.
mer d 1Ranter. We have no wish to place tho
star editor hors du combat before his readers. Yet
neither did wo fancy appearing so before such of
our own IS also take tho Farmer d; plon,.,
Hence this article.
For tho rest, we shall be glad to soc tho veil
lifted from that awful face, az promised. Who
knows but that instead Of terrible tyrant Of thu
tripod, We may there discover the linoameuts Of
somc old friend whose broad smile has been long
pictured on our mental tsblot az tho very reflex Of
all the genial humanitics of life.
sI Tho star editor will now please turn to
Cor xiv chaps I'll verses, for something instruc-
tive on this subject of "yoices."
~A load or two of Meal could be sold in
this town Tery readily for tho cash. Bring along