Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-03-27
From the Columbus, Ga, Sun.

Disbelief them and We have now the fact pure and sim
All the vaor of Southern solders viii be powerlsss
whem and crush If we insaney raise coon instead OF
In years paIs no little sport has Deeo maze 81 'ns
in value cotton crop 1.-The derslve reply has Oeen
you obliged to eat those crops. while cotton COM
Just so long as we had market for cotton had
finite advantage for could buy all Of bread ana meat
that fell short of raising and after this had
plus of cotton which rsuJned in money for cotton
king and demanded noney but now as the tables are
ton, and We can neither eat nor sell : Happy we II we
We would willingly exchange cotton tor to-day to
large amount yet then there still some discussion of the
question hoo much cotton shall we plant and this too,
in Of the appalling fact that the plantations
around called to supply meat at price, for
the soloes who leaving this week to fight our bat
tA they could Judge Crawford eoQuenty told
the other day-fuTnh hundred pounds per man Now
aid to this fact another equally appalling viz that we are
completely off from the states which have always
depended bread and meat and is not enough to make
question the sanity of the who asks hoc much cot
Is colt mgr We believe he is but. like other Kings,
he must be fed The production Of Tennessee and Ken
lucky in lt5O round numbers, Ill 900 600 bushels
1900 900 bushels OF wheat and 900 rth of
saught red animals Every one knows that the chief
ket these ucts found in the Gulf Statesand
could not have lived without them unless had Gb-
stained from raising cotton. Now how much does any
planter of bread and meat from these States
of the coming crop md yet have much discussion
of ho1o muck cotton shall plant Add ther fact
meu u the war This body of will be
only non producers bu consHners, thus making
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CoGfederacy and " hOac much cotton shall
plaut 2? Can such things be- and not excite wonder
against painful TRUTH and ignore the possibility of
starred into submission, while We scuss hoO
much cotton shall We pIant?' The Gordon of mics
that would US, around Federal
feels threaten in every seaport and mile OF coast
wi McCle,lans arte y line Northern border from
Harpers cry do the Kanawha county, the Gap
to The mouth OF Missouri ard beyond the Indian
couutry. But No doubts the ISSUE there is but
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tea that the cotton sta should tail to up to their
solemn vodable duty For IS their duty to feed
the armies Ch0 shat Gchte08 md pendehcs This
Of Federal makes this plain. Whatever
achieve OF successes, the borders the border
III in either Missouri Tennessee Virginia The
advancing ami cedng tides of Federal ederate
forces, leave des0at0n in their tract and hear -hear
I've cotton planters u the unny Sou b, Who formerly
Were fed from Tenne must noo feed you selves and
TEN essee, Virginia hesdes Fail to do this and his.
torys &c will record that the Federal boast pg
th people into submission, was accomplished by your
suicidal policy With this danger staring in the face
shall we continue to eng llre hoU much cotton shall
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~ who d = to what r,nsrulIs
ar und him hut if men were fully alive to our dangers
certainly there would be OF ali Gu,
rmination to p)ant-nOt acre Of cotton
es gear ana Je, recent meeting of planters in houston
the hand v by would, at the lowest figure. give
crop of between one and two millions of paes acted
throughout the cotton States Put such resolves by
the side Of Others which declare that every shall pat
and less cotton than usual hat each sha
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where: lie the bitter wa of ensaved posterty an
swer There must be revolution OF opinion and action
we shall perish
Happily there is cashing in these questions lightly
consideIedbetween patriotism and interest he plant
community has been accustomed for generation,
at 90 ton as the only profitable crop and al others
| mere coutinseHs
He could make heavy cotton crop con dered all
else satefo cotton would buy every thing ese. Ocdina
ry his true for the winch all Others
adapted cotton, most probably raise that staple
anu buy all necessares ou' of thsr surplus
But revolutions, such as his ns# in progress Ia
try, affect all interests, upsets oil routine policy. AMI
i, wsest who takes bro dcast apes action
accordingly Passing nov the claims of pat otsm, lit is
plain That The aners prosperity depends upon his plant
ing cotton his year, aid substituting grain crops. The
present position OF the auns interest with ut pa"al
country land the time at hand to pa It another crop
with this coupled a scarcity OF bacon and gram and the
Dependent for TODD us-whom they formerly ped
eed Who ever witnessed the like before To raise
other bale OF cotton this add to the supply
Is to me last degree suicidal policy 1t is at this fatal
taking the shadow for the substance, without
| power even 30 revoke the mistake.
often, since september have heard the pre-
diction that tire blockade would be raised in sixty
from Liverpool stock 900
an COTTON on hand there besides much heavier stock of
East India and other cottons and with this have also
the fact that the East India crop than
bic that OF last Jearwih still further prospective in
crease Why Shouts Te suppose England to be influenced
by the Quxoc motive of sympathy for people fight
ing to be free? Let not deceive selves England in
TINS as IN al eise has solely to Englands interests
she is suffering hat for lack of cotton but ehe
judge of the profit and loss OF suffering and feeding
III Eng sh ha lds
Meantime, knowing that she may be pressed break
ing the blockade, she watches with keen expectancy to
tn planters put in another CROP thereby warranng
her IN the CALCULATION OF getting the needed supply cheap
enough to amply reimburse her every outlay and expense
while she getting rid Of all her goods manufactured from
high priced cotton. At the time, these high prices
stimulated the production in India
possessions rendering her less dependent upon America
for the staple.
With what exultaon will the English manufac urer learn
b q COttnn-Uut
southern anter ihe prospect ahead will amply pay for
prssen: srlngency and distress An ia element in
raised th year. will be sufficient make weight upon the
ma ke to keep prices depressed for years-as c0nsump
tt will not quite keep pace with production and the
stock Will therefore gradually but surely increase. sup
pose the Planter haS under shell l0J bales for which
he might expect 10 after the ports opened, if
is known that is planted this eprsg-but if the
ports opened and the present crop shipped under
pectaon OF growing crop of oneourth of the usual
quantity would be in kee ping with past experien to
p nters bales OF old and rs bales Of new cot
ton put on the market and sold at five cents He would
and l2l for hundred and twenty-five bales in
other But if in the uncertain future the crop should
ai as in 1862 where would be the planters and the
try 1t plain that time land and labor, given to cotton
this year. cannot but result heavy oas-even leaving
of tie such contingencies fresh burst of
Europe whch would materially reduce the demand there
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Let pose Memphis and tha Notifications above to
fall leaving New Orleans be eaguered city, and perhaps
range the trbu aries of the Mis- issipp cutting
US of from exas the great wool producing cattegrow
portion of the Confederacy Add 20 this an unfavora
BILE grain season, aud United crop of planted while we
had the language o. the Houston County resolutions on
ly four ac the ha d of cotton growing nothi. to
eat tor our half million army, and the country full every
where Of cotton
Whit prospect! What could keep the country from
falling into the depths of subugat add despair Should
the block de and war continue, of Whit value will
be All sales will We neither pay with
c0Eaances, corn will be the most profitable CROP Inter
as Wei a. PATRIOTS safety and Independence, should