Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-04-07
THE DEMOCRAT.
P. A. ROY, Editor.

49, tht SIcaccnlS LAX On Chang
thus dcmolislles one of the fallacics q
the Northern economists:
The New York Courier and ENQUIRE
OF late date, during the present month
IN commenting on the remark that cot
ton is King, indulges in some slight in
nuendoes that crops of other sections o
the country-in the Middle and North
crn otates-yield over the sum or value
OF cotton. We admit that there are
large productions Of corn, wheat, hay
oats and potatoes, even apples and 9th
er productions, which count up by mil
hons Of dollars, but the very astute and
learned Courier and Enquirer omits OF
lorGets, that besides raising cotton and
sugar, that there are many other produc.
tons OF the great Southwest which are
never taken into consideration in the
way OF exports. In the great South
corn, potatoes, hay and rice are raised,
out many planters or cultivators never
'hlnk OF sending them to market We
VIII take our own State Mouisiana) as
guide For instance, in the year S5s
there were raised in the State of Louis
laha l3,653,3lS bushels of corn which
If valued at the New York market
prices, would be- worth eleven millions
OF dollars. There were also raised 35.-
OoO barrels OF rice, and how many mil
Ions of bushels Of sweet potatoes it is
impossible to tell, as every negro on a
plantation has his potato patch, and can
make it profitable, if he is not too indo-
lent and lazy to work it. Beyond the
cotton and sugar raised in Louisiana
alone, there are other productions of the
soil equivalent to $20,0OO,O0O. There
fore, when the New York Courier and
Enquirer asserts that there are other
crops III the Middle and Northern States
which yield as much, it has not the can
dor or business to add that the greater
part OF such crops, or more than three
tourths, are consumed by the producers
themselves, leaving very small pro-
portion for expectation to foreign coun-
tries. Now let us sec how we stand in
regard to our State. We raised i'll Lou
lslana in the year 1858 4Sl,l76 bales
cotton, 562,CO hogsheads sugar, SILL
Oo,o,ooo worth of corn, and 81, 200, 900
value in potatoes, rice, hay and other
productions. We exported the cotton,
valued at $24, 100000; we also export
"a the greater part of the sugar and
nolasses, the crop being valued at $780,
)oo,oo The corn, potatoes and other
it is presumed, were retained
1t home. Therefore, when Northern
;tatlstlclans talk of their immense pro-
luctlons and value, the question must
'e enlarged, broader scope assumed,
md the inquiry made, what proportion
II these productions are consumed by
he producers, or at home, and what
proportion is exported to foreign coun-
rics? We do not in the South consume
Y cat the cotton raised We, therefore,
rove that our cotton raised and export
d Is just so much surplus production
9hen placed in juxtaposition with the
reductions Of the Northern States.
We raise in Louisiana, with popu-
atlon-exclusive Of the city and sub
rbs, say In the agricultural districts
6o, ,225 inhabitants, slaves and whites,
reductions to the amount of So, ,0OO,-
90 With less than half million of
the State of Louisiana alone ,
reduces more than half of the total ,
mount of manufacture from Great Brit {
IN, with her thirty millions Of popula-
on Q G
VALUE OF PRODUCTIONS OF LOUISIANA FOR THE