Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-01-31

and pertinent articles will be received
from persons of whatever color, and in
the absence of such communications the
column will be filled with such infor-
nation on the subject as we may be able
to obtain.
Hayti as a Cotton Country.
We have before called attention to
the project of emigration to Hayti, now
enlisting so much attention from our
colored people. The movement is one
of the best for their interests which has
yet been devised It comes to them
with greater force than any other sim
liar project, for it emanates from ma
ton of their own kin, and is thoroughly
imbued with a fraternal spirit The
colored people among US for several
years past have had their attention
drawn to emi grafton as means of
ameliorating their condition. In this
movement of the Haytian Government,
they not only are enabled to benefit
themselves, but to lift up their race in
the face of the nations.
At the present moment the movement
comes with peculiar power The
South seems determined to answer
Bishop Berkeley's celebrated question:
"What if whole nation should 60 mad?''
by doing it in the most outrageous fash
ion. They have gone far enough to
prove that if "cotton is king" at least
his throne will not be in the Gulf
States any longer. The British press
urge India, China, Australia, Africa,
and the British West Indies, as avail
able sources from which to obtain cot
ton. Lord John Russell directs the
British consuls to obtain all the infor-
nation they can, bearing upon this
point. In the North, valuable sugges-
tions have been made. Mr.. Sanford
and Hon. E. G. Squires have indicated
Central America as the most advanta-
geous point for experiments. Their
schemes look to the employment of
white labor principally.
The opportunity invites our eolored
people to win this tempting prize
Hayti lies in the very center of the cot
ton belt, has climate unsurpassed for
it's culture, and untold acres waiting the
hands of industry, a Government eager
to promote enterprise, and geograph-
ical- commercial position which renders
it more easily accessible than the Cen
tral American to the mercantil navy of
this or any other country.
| All the evidence proves conclusively
that this island is admirably adapted to
the raising of this staple. The writer's
upon this country speak enthusiastically
of its productiveness, and of the prolific
yield of all tropical cereals, cotton,
coffee, sugar, tobacco, rice, etc. 1t was
formerly the greatest coffee producing
region. Through the stagnation caused
by its revolution, it lost the supremacy
which Brazil now holds. Hayti still
stands third on the list of coffee raising Q
nations. In the cultivation of sugar it
is capable Of great results, but it is in
the raising Of cotton that the largest
benefit can be secured.
All that Mr.. Squires says relative to
Central America, applies with equal
force to Hayti. Every variety of the
cotton plant can be cultivated with the
greatest success According to James
Redpath, in his ''Gulde to Hayti:"
"Cotton grows with extraordinary ia
cility. 1t is of a fine and silky quality
1t does not grow on bushes, but trees
which produce two crops annually, and
last several years. Its culture might be
made exceedingly profitable.
This is what is known as the tree cot.
ton; with the introduction of the sea
island variety, and other plants of both
long and short-stapled kind, improved
agricultural implements, machinery fol
? cleaning and packing, and with the
promised influx Of skilled labor, Hayti
will soon become of great Importance tc
the world.
A large proportion of the land Of
fered as free homesteads by the Haytiar
Government to emigrants, is selected
with view to its adaptability to this
staple; and to this end the energies Of
the emigrant should be turned. Jamai
ca raises two crops of cotton per year
and 500 lbs. per acre to each crop
South Carolina raises one crop of 800 Tbs
, per acre. In Jamaica the plant is
PERENNIAL; In South Carolina 1t is an an
nual of puny growth. Even in Texas
the yield per acre is only $50 lbs
Hayti is fully equal, if not superior tc
Jamaica in this respect. At the close
E of the last century the French colony
raised at least 20 per cent per acre more
sugar than the British. 1t has lost
none of its fertility and only requires
labor and skill to once again assert and
maintain supremacy.
The author of GA Summer in the
Caribbean Sea" cites the instance ot
success in cotton raising by a former
South Carolinian Slave, located in the
Dominican Republic. He says that by
the labor of himself and wife, the fugi
tive in one year paid for his house and
farm of forty acres. He goes on to say
"My object in mentioning this fact
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