Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1864-02-09
Why De Bow was Imprisoned.

II is fact not generally known that
De Bow, the Southern Reviewer and the
only man at the South possessing attain
meats sufficient TO edit first class review,
has been imprisoned by JEFF. Davis. and his
RsrissO suppressed in consequence of ar
ticle .,Jing to show that cotton was no long
err King. An article based upon indispu-
table figures and facts.
The following are the more important
portions Of the article which has caused
DE Bows incarceration:
1t is true we have believed that c.,tton
is king; 1t is undeuiabls that We possessed
monopoly for its production, arising out
Of variety OF causes, but it is not true
that it will grow nowhere else. Indeed we
find that the production of it in various
esaaarius = iaer....si.,ss j.. ysossetrie ratio,
aud that in year or SO the South will no
longer be needed to supply the commerce
Of the globe with what va ,ainIy hoped
would grow nowhere else.
Shall we not learn from our enemies
What are the causes Of their prosperity
Why DO even the laburers of the North
live with degree of comfort often I'M
known to the wealthy planters Of the
South!
The statistical reports accompanying the
census of 1860 establish fully the results
Of material conditions; and if we admit
that the people Of the North have already
hardly fell the war up to this point, We
mast lock TO and examine the material con-
ditions which surround them.
They cannot he more prosperous because
there is no slavery; certainly it is cheaper
to have a slave who la,ors for you than TO
labor Yourself; therefore, slave labor is ,ae
mors ecouosnical. or rather it was before
the time o. Henry A. Wise and John
Brown. Considering the present condition
Of the country, and prospectively, also, il
may well lie supposed, as it already is by
many in the slave States, that it actually
may be more economical to labor for our
selves than to maintain negroes for that
purpose.
We have taken to raising cereals, and
have succeeded so badly as to make it
matter of doubt whether we will not have
eaten everything before the time of greens,
which when boiled with fowl are SO priced
by the First Families of Virginia.
In the meantime, the production of cot
ton is slipping away frssn US, and we have
already slipped away into unknown depths
and are drifting to fearful and to al IN
certain future.
The people of the North live comforta-
bly--more so, indeed, than the majority Of
the slave owners id the South. They edu-
cate their children, and teach them that
there is no dishonor in employing either
their hands or their heads, aud say boldly,
even against csr prejudices, think they
are right in that.
We know that the turnip crop OF Eng
land is now by far lnors valuable than any
other cultivated ~ sbe English. although
it has become SO recently. In regard to
The comparative productions of the people
Af the North aud Of the pouth, AS glsea
by the census report, we observe IN those
common to both regions that the widest
siiyergencs exists in mich cows.
In the North the ratio ofssincrease Of
lnilch cows WAS slightly in excess Of the
ratiorof increase Of population between the
years OF 1850 anu 1860. In the South
there was an actual deficiency in the ratio
above stated Of 43l, sol! In proportion
to the ratio OF incfsase of population, the
i, chiyalrons Stale OF South Carolina is def
Gent in mich cows 81 ,766! Asher deca.
dence is far greater than that Of any other
State, aud her deficiency 10 the ratio Of
nlilcn COWS 10 he proposition is the greatest,
may we not sup Jose that either the def
cheney indicated. or some cause coincidefit
10 ii. has been the ruin Of that State
People must drink something. If they
cannot get mix, naturally they take to
whiskey. and We may well lament the result.
The suhjoined tables sllos plainly that the
decrease OF uileh cows 10 proportion - The
population indicates = precArious condition
az society. sud. If il has moi led directly to
rebellion, The causes Of the decrease Il