Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-01
M]O9OgllM AMY.
Our Resources for the War.

~ IooilSh ldeh prevails at the North that
tho South cannot raise her own provisions,
and will starve outright if the war be kept up.
The idea is born of Helper and is only type
of q class of ideas OH this subject by which the
North ismost industrously dcluding itself
The census tables show that the South raises
Z more provisions per man than the North, and
nearly as much as the great grain growing re-
.giop Of the West. The statistics of the coun-
try also show that tho Eastern manufacturing
free States consume an equivalent of all the
surplus products of the Western free States :;
and thatthc free labor North, taken as a unit
exports little or nothing abroad. Tho gold Of
California and about twenty five millions of
miscellaneous truck constitute the sum total
asof Northern expectations of Northern growth
andS production. The surplus provisions of
the Western free Stntcs are nearly consumed
by the Eastern manufacturing free States-
The whole exports of the late Union, with the
exceptions VIC have stated went from the
South. IT Western grain went off from New
\ ork, it was but little in excess of the guam
titles OF Southern provisions sent to Northern
manufacturers. 1t was liberated by virtue of
the receipt Of Southern provisions, and really
represented only an export surplus furnished
by the South. With the exceptions stated
: the whole expectation of the late Union,
accounting to over three hundred millions
year, went from the South, of which cotton
alone furnished one hundred and nincty-onc
millions. Besides the three hundred millions
sent by the South abroad, she sent also to the
North about one hundred and fifty millions of
dollars worth of produce, cotton furnishing of
course the largest item of the amount Con:
sidcring the North as foreign country, the
exports of the South, in time of peace, arc
four hundred and fifty millions year.
This is the largest expectation for the ratio
of population known in tie commerce of the
world. If the surplus of it's products sent
abroad measure the wealth Of country, then
is the South, the number of its population
being considered, the wealthicst country in
tho world Yet tho North dcludcs itself with
the belief that the South is weak, poor, and on
the point of starvation. A country purely
agricultural; country of prolific soil and al
most, prurient vegetation; a country with the
best organized system of labor on the globe !;
country exporting four hundred and fifty
millions of dollars worth of surplus products
Q year; that country poor, weak and stinted
for food What follies and stupidities are
sectional prejudice capable of leading peo-
pie into
This sshalluoination has its origin in the fact
that many Of tho Southern planters contigu-
GUS to the great rivers purchase their corn and
bacon. They purchase because the same hand
who would raise one hundred and fifty dollars
worth Of corn raises four hundred and fiity dol.
iais worth Of cotton or sugar. The planter,
therefore, who purchases, and who increases
to that. extent the product of his cotton or
sugar crop, nearly doubles the value of the
labor he employs in tho substitution
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cause a few Southern planters, on the great
: highways, purchase corn and bacon, therefore
the whole South will starve, if cut off from
trade with the pork and corn raising States of
the Union! The very fact of war, and isoa-
ton from these latter States, at once makes
the South the grandest provision-growing re
gion in the world. The very moment her
sales of cotton are checked, that moment does
SHE turn her;upexampled productive energies
to the cultivation Of provision stutfs; and
from being M exporter of cotton, sugar, to-.
bacco, rice, and naval stores, she becomes even
a creator grain.producing region than the great
Northwest herself, AT every moment she
chooses such is tho advantage which her la
bor system gives her-shc can drive the North
west out OF the provision markets of the world.
In this aspect of the case, the blockade of
the South will prove rs serviceable to hor as
prejudicial to the North. IF the South should
plant no cotton for year, she would get as
much for the cotton crop shc held over as she
world ave got for two regular crops. If in
that ia1psed year of cotton, she devoted her
whole labor to, the raising of grain, she would
have quantities Which would supply all the
markets of the world, and close then, against
tfieNorth. If the blockade couldbe enforced.
and her cotton could be confined to The Jontl,