The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-10

W0tee9s
~ correspondent of the Toledo Com.
mercial, who has lived thirteen wears in
South Carolina and Georgia, and whose
means Of becoming acquainted with the
country and its people have been ample,
maintains that the best cotton regions Of
the southern states possess climate well
suited to the constitution of the white
race, and capable Of giving it, By the aid
Of the labors Of the field, iine hardy dew
elopment. He says:
"The herbaceous or annual cotton-plant
has probably its best climate in the south
ern states. In them appear to be united
the proper degree Of summer heat and
spring and summer rains, with the best
proportion Of atmospheric mixture. Com
mencing in North Carolina, the adapta-
ton Of climate and soil to the successful
growth of the cotton staple seems to i'm
prove regularly towards the southwest,
until it eliminates in middle Iexas. -
Here the bestand largest acreableproduct
of cotton is grown. The best part Of this
cotton region embraces the middle por-
tions of the States of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas. In the first named States it
embraces most of the descending slope
from the mountains to the level plain. =
This plain reaches back from the ocean
some hundred miles in breadth. This
slope i high, well watered by rapid
streams and gushing springs, is noder-
ately fertile, and has healthful climate,
elm this region two hundred and. fifty
pounds of clenr cotton to the acre is q
good yield. A field hand will cultivate,
BY the aid of . mule or horse, fifty acres
Of cotton and twenty acres of corn the
corn yielding some eight to twelve bush
els, on the average, per acre. On rich
river bottom Eve hundred pounds of cot
ton and forty bushels Of corn to the acre
are sometimes produced. In nearly all
this region white labor Was predominant
in the early settlement Of the country,
most Of the settlers having been poor and
depending on the labor OF their own hands
for support. 1t was the general belief
among them that there was then greater
exemption FROM disease and more vieor-
GUS enjoyment Of health than after the in
PRODUCTION Of slaves, when most Of the
labor was imposed on the colored race.
MSeveral of the best settlements in the
up-country Of South Carolina, 10 1895,
were composed of Scotch-Irish Coven-
anters, who were out.and-out abolitionists.
They had their churches, in which no
STAKEHOLDER was considered good Chris
tian. In these settlements there was more
civilized life, more industry, more comfort
and more good morals than in any others
in the state. Up to 1910, most of the
labor, in what is now the cotton region Of
South Carolina, was performed by the
whites. The elder Wade Hampton, af-
forwards General Hampton, Of the war
Of 1872, got his fine constitution by plow-
ing and hoeing in the field when growing
up TO manhood. So did Andrew Jackson,
aud most Of the really great men Of that
state, including Langdon Cheeyes and
Robert GOODBYE Harper.
t.It may be truly asserted that moro
than half Of tho best cotton-growing re-
gions is better adapted to the constitution
e TIC European than 70 that OF the
African rros. It Is region Of extremes
in temperature, Of hot summers and cold
winters. IN it the heaithiest and strongest
white men arc those who perform most
Out-of-door labor.
"Youm, DC, j. w. S."
~ The civil marriage Of Mile. Adle
dc Rothschild with Barron Solomon de
Rothschild, took place on Wednesday,
March 18th, at Frankfort. The religious