The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-11-30

And they do not lie of it. Some Of the cities
of the South, full OF vice and open drains, are
indeed fatal to health but the cotton lands are
unsurpassed for salIhrity, and the dea,h-ratc Is
lower among whites than blacks. The Land re-
uuircd for cotton culturc is "A light, sandy lolm
easily worked, the ploughing being done with a
light plough drawn 10y one or two mules AT quick
walk the cultivation simil II to that of corn, and
ns capaLle of being carried on 10y improved ma
chinery instead of the universal hoe now u1el
Ly the slay 8. The pace required for each pl mt
varies, according 10 the richness OF the soil, but
by July lst the ground is iullyeovered, Daring
the period of extreme heat little attention Is re-
duired, and while northern laborGrs are sweltor-
ing in the bayfield, under a sun as intense as in
the South, the cotton planter merely watch =
the growth of the plant. The work Of picking
requires nimllc fin gers and the close attention OF
all hands, men, women and children. II Is con-
tinued through the cool autumn, aud in favor.
able seasons far into the winter. One OF the
great draw lacks to slave cultivation ia the want
Of more dense population, from which to draw
an extra force during the picking season, and
fields white with unpicked cotton are not seldom
ploughed up to make ready for the planting ol
The new crop This would not occur under the
small allotment system OF free labor
now PROFITABLE CROPS CAN IN RAISED.
IT. then, the white man work on cotton
Lands as safely a. black man, and the planter
can afford wages certain 10 attract Tree ldDof,
what imperils the cotton We shall be asked
where the planter is TO get capital 70 pay wages,
and we answer, Just where he getsit n1w-from
the cotton-fIctor who now helps him 10 buy tn
black whose cost amounts TO fair wages. Mr.
Atkinson may well demand the extension o.
freedom over a soil so attractive to the emigranI
population of the North. Take the case OF d
man-a real caso-who recently settled in Tex
as and determined to grow cotton for himself
lie had two sons no slaves, no servants, anC
only little land, but he raised twenty-five
bales, or say 10000 pounds of cotton, value
AI 900, besides his food. In other words h'
made profit of E25O a year. That j. not pre-
ciscly the prospect at which a keen Yankee Ia
lorer or industrious German emigrant !, in the
smallest degree likely to -ncer. And this croL
was raised of new land, with no uillins7, ana
only settled just as wheat land is settled, by the
emigrants. ,,c
We have said nothing whatever of the diff
ference in product to be caused by better agrl'
culture. lhc southern planter scarcely uses the
nlourh and hr, axis new land TO avoid manure
lie wastes a third Of his crop, the seed, which
t,iyes excellent soap and most valuable oil, and
az scientific progresses no never hears Mr.. At
kin,on enters into all these details, but We pre-
Ter the broad simple facts which contain II
themselycs the whole case, viz; that the plant
or now pays for slave labor wages which wOult
attract the white AMI that the white mar
could work as safely as the black on the coitoT
lands,
We must make one more extract from Mr.. At
kinson. Il is dry column OF igure,, but II d
nevertheless worth curs0ry glance from thls
who believe slavery to be at worst an evil neces
sity: