Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-10
Cotton Planting in South-CaroIina.

COuOn SOulnsCarOnnds
Gov Bonham, in his special message to the Leg
isIature of SouthGarolina, now in session, says:
at is much to be feared that while your act to
limit the production Of cotton to three to the
full hand will restrain such having overhowng
granaTies contemplate Withholding their grain from
market and planting cotton almost exclusively, it
has yet induced many, as | am informed who pur-
posed planting little if any cotton to plant the full
number of acres allowed by law. And this is JUST
fled upon the ground that yorr statute is equivalent
to an announcement By the chosen Representatives
Of the people that such course is not unPari0tic
If this feeling prevails extensively it will be readily
perceived VIII must be the result All fertilizers
will be put on the cotton lands to stimulate them
to the highest production, while the lands will
be thus proportIonately impoverished. In nv first
message, in January last in commencing to your
favorable consideration the Georgia law, recon-
mended reduction of the number of acres below
three With the lights now before me, | recon-
mend amendment of your act so as to prohibit
the planting over half or at most one acre to the
full hand and that the hands 10 be enumerated shall
only be such as work in the crop"
The Governor condemns in severe terms the spirit
of speculation and avarice now so prevalent. What
contrast betweenh character of people at this
time and eighteen months agol Then every thing
almost was in common, and States WED with each
other in sending volunteers to the field but now
our men have to be conscripted and ayarice tghtens
the fingers and locks almost every heart. Is pos
sible that W are destined to "work out our own
destruction with greediness 7" In all countries the
planters and farmers are purest in character, and
most above temptation. Is it so with us row! We
believe it is but many Of en it seems, have joined
in the chase for money. What Will your Confede-
rate bills be worth, if the cause should fail?
THE CONFEDERATE TAX BLL.-The Fayetteville
O6serOer makes the following just and sensible OBJ
seryatons in relation to some Of the features In the
tax bill which has just passed the House of Rep
resentatves:
"Another singular feature of the bill is, that whilst
the enormous tax of II per cent. is laid upon all
protits of business not otherwise spechcay taxed,
the tax on the profits of banks, gas companies tel
egraph, express and manufacturing companies IS
dOubled-9S per cent. The only conclusion we
can come to from this is that the Congress has
already commenced the war upon banks and manu-
factures with view to their destruction GoV-
ernments are in the habit of taxing odous descrp-
lions of business SO heavily as to destroy them and
with that purpose in view. But 1t does not seem
to US wise at present to indulge such spirit to"arus
the banks which have generally gone thelr utmost
length to sustain the government by loans ana Ia
cites of every kind within their power, nor towards
manufactures as to which the great regret Is that
we have not more of theIn to supply adequate clo-
thing for the army and the people Congress has
indicated purpose to restrict the profits OF manu-
facturers to 80 per cent such bill having passed
one House Take from this % per cent, and it will
leave about 81 per cent. upon their capital-equal
to per cent. in ordinary times. If manufacturers
continue to run their mills in the face of such hos
tile legislation, it will be owing to their patriotism
which would induce them to work for nothing rath.
er than to diminish the resources Of the country