Natchitoches union. [volume] ([Natchitoches, La.]) 1859-1864, 1861-12-12
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Sir Jonah Darlington, in his anus
ing aketches of his Life and Timts,
somewhere lays down the maxim thu
"the safest way to avoid danger is t.
mcetlit plump in the face. II the peepl
of the Confederate States will act o'
THE maxim Ms cmbodyihg the sound 9
practical wisdom, they will save them
selves from much future suffering ant
inauguratc a policy which should hay,
been followed years ago. With eli
mate 90 varied and soil so rich, tl,aI
they can grow very sp cles ol cereals
and raise every kind of provisions
they have relied on the granarics and
pork houses of tile North West, fp,
their corn, -four and bacon, and OH
che North and East for their shoes,
aails and d thousand other articles
they could have manufactured them
selves. We rave even imported ouf
onio.s, potatoes, butter and fruits,
which we could have raised at home
swithout missing tue labor bestowedon
. their production. What is the cons''-
sequence of such an improvident conrs' :?
We arc in the midst of sanguinary
war our ports and rivers are blockad
ID and we are already suffering for tls
!. want cf . thousand articles of indis.
pcnsablc use;-provisions have ad
!. yanced in price SO that people Of OR.
ainsry m M. find it difficult to yet
them = and shoes, negro clothing a.,
&c. can. ii to be purchased at all, lie
had only at exborbitant rates, dali,
augmented by specul .tors, those oor-
nuTants and curses of society who
make themselves fat on the sufferings
OF their fellowmen. In the. meantime
cur cotton, ON which reliance has
always been placed to supply our
secessitics, lies unginned and can
scither be sold nor pledged wi hont
animniensc sacrifice - while taxes Of
every kind must soonpc paid or the
very wheels of government can no
isnger move. Such are some of the
evils and dangers to be conlrnnte, and
20 be over come as best they may |
Will our agricul,urists look the evils
Of the day plump in the face and
determine to overcome them by Il
change Of system, or will'they flonnder
on in dependence on other markets for
their necessary supplies, always liable
20 be cut off in state of war, aad al.
ways fluctuatins i'll the best of times
from . shortness of crops elsewhere,
or that spirit Of speculation which is
ever active among II commercial
people! Never was time more prop-
tions to the adoption of another system
Of social economy. 1t will be scarcely
possible to get the present. crop III col,
ton to the markets of Europe before
snother can be grown; and, it the
planters persist in planting another
crop before the present one il sold.
they would destroy, or geat!y impair,
their own prosperity fra quarter Of
century to come The market would
be glutted and the manufacturers b.. :
able to control the price of our great .
staple Send eight millions Of bales
instead Of four upon the markets of
Liverpool and Havre, and the common g
'ense of every man must tell him that
he price would 60 down so low that d
he growing of the staple would CEASE.
% be profitable. If then, the blockade
10 not raised SO that VIC can shin the l.
,resent crop in time to have it MOSTLY n
before another can bc got :.
eady for market--wc should act most y
lnwisely in raising another crop a all. o
low then. it may be asked, ar, our G
laves to be employed? They can be /
sost pro6tably employed in planting T.
orn, oats, rye, wheat and bsr!.yby d
improvements on the p'antationS-hy @
rccting new houses or repairing and "
eautyfying old ones--by setting out o
richards of every kind Of fruit trees |.
v raising stock and such other work u
\ will result in making very one in u
ependent at home for his food and e
should not some be "
tsnght the .rt of tanning leather and Il