Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-03
The Georgia Gotten Crop and the ssa!!h of Psan.
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The Georgia Gotten Crop and the Seallh OF P,an.
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Mr.. Gartrell, of Georgia, appeared be.
hind the footlighis in the House of Rep
resentatises, to do his part of the pro-
grammc laid down by the Democratic
managers. OF course Mr. Gartrell, being
a Democrat and fire eater has no idea Of
allowing the majority to rule provided a
majority are Republicans, and said
ale would announce the solemn ruth,
disagreeable as it might be to his cons,it-
uents, and TO those Of many others, that,
if this aggression continues, the people Of
the South will be compelled, by every
principle Of justice, honor aud self-prsser-
walton, to disrupt ecery tie IF tie LniJH,
pcaceably ifthey can, JorciJy ifthey must" !"
This sounded very well, if it was prop
erly intoned and accompanied With aPpro-
pirate theatrical gcsticulaiions, as it 10
doubt was; bat Mr.. Hickman, of Penn
sylvania, spoiled the effect by reminding
the House that there are Eighteen Mil
lions of Freemon in the North who are
united 10 the determination that the Uniop
shall not be dissolved; and that this
North, with all its arts and industry,
could make more arms and ammunition ia
ninety days than the South could buy,
and more men would voluntarily enlist
under the banner of the Constitution aud
Union than the South could raise BY con-
scIiption."
The Georgian, not willing to have the
effect of his Iart so rudcly spoiled, replied
By assertion SO fabulous, that it is evident
he did not expect anybody to believe him:
"The gentlemen from Pennsylvania has
added insult to Injury when he said the
North had Eighteen Millions of people
ard can make more arms in ninety days
than the South eau buy. Why, tie pro
ceeeis Of one Cotton crop in Georgia ,e9uld
tgy The ehoie of Pennsylvania"
1t is reported tba. this created laughter
and applause, aud well it might the for
mer. 1t certainly was good joke to as
sert that Georgia, with white population
of about Six Hundred Thousand, can,
with single product of her soil, buy up
the great State of Pennsylvania, with her
Three Millions Of Freemen, her railways,
her great commercial mart, her agricul-
tural resources and vast mineral wealth
The cotton crop of Georgia, in 1850,
according to the census, was about tireRy-
three millions Of dollars, aud we have good
for estimating the crop of 1888
at twenty-six and half. Now let US see
how far this would 60 towards buying
Pennsylvania. The value of Live Stock /
in the latter State, in 1850, was firty-oae
rnd haf million dollars, from which it /
appears, that, BY driving little more than
one half Of her cattle to market, she could
purchase the entire Cotton crop Of Geor-
;a, and scarcely miss the funds
We wish Mr. Gartrell would inform the
country, if ne really meant what he said,
low the planters of his State are to pur-
hase the real estate Of Pennsylvania,
which in 1850 was valued at over J3ur
mdrel million dollars Der agricultural
Implements ard machinery, valued at
bout fifteen millions, not to mention her
ron and coal?
A few more such speeches as Gartrelrs
Iould convince the most timid that South
IN members mean nothing by their disu-
len speeches.-LaHcGster Examiner d,
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