The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05

Our readers may or may not remember
distinctly that when the renowned DR.
Sangrado, owing to his extended practice,
impaired in few words, the whole art of
curing, it consisted in copious draughts of
hot water and blood-letting The acute
Gil Bias, soon after, (then young practi-
TONER was much perplexed at the want
of success which attended his efforts and
urged upon the venerable doctor that, as
every one died who came under his hands,
apparently, as it appeared, to throw dis
credit upon bis system, it might be well to
do as the other doctors did, use " chemic-
ais, " and trust to more favorable result,
as more fatal one was impossible. DR..
Sangrado declined, because he had written
a book to show that if a patient died from
disease, it was simply because the physi-
clan had either not bled him sufficiently or
administered hot draughts in sufficient
quantities. We are not, however, dispos
ed to adopt the course of that eminent
practitioner. We have "written book, "
but we see that facts prove its error. We
are willing to write another, which we
hope will prove true. If the negro will
not raise enough to feed himself and his
master, what is the use of the negro? If
we are not permitted to avail ourselves of
the high qualities of the negro, and found
a superior civilization upon him, why
should we not accept the civilization which
belongs to people in general, fourded upon
the dignity as well as the usefulness of
labor?
The people o. the North live comfort
ably; more so, indeed, than the majority
of slave owners in the South. The edu-
cate their children, and teach them that
there is no dishOnOr in employing either
their hands or their heads; and l say
boldly, even against our prejudices, I
think they are right in that.
We know that the turnip crop of Eng
land is now by far more valuable than any
other cultivated by the English, though it
has become so recently. In regard to the
comparative production of the people of
the North and South, as given by the CEN
sus report, we Obsere in the those common
to both regions that the widest diver
gence exists in regard to milch COWS.
In the North the ratio of increase of
mich COWS was slightly in excess of the
ratio of increase of population between the
years 1850 and 1860. In the South there
was an actual deficiency in the ratio above
stated of 431, ,50l! in proporto on to the
ratio of the increase of population the
chivalrous State of South Carolina is de-
iicient in mich cows, 64,766. AS her
decadence is far greater than that of any
other State, and her deficiency in the
ratio of milch COWS to the population is
the greatest, may we not suppose that
either the deficiency indicated, or some
cause coincident, has been the ruin of the
State?
People must drink something If they
can not get milk, naturally take to whis-
ky, and we may we'll lament the result.
The subjoined tables show plainly that the
decrease of milch cows in propol ton to
the population indicates precarious con-
dition of soci:ty; and, if it has not led di-
rectly to the rebellion, the cause of the
decrease ofmilch COWS are coincident and
analogous, at least. to 1t.
In the slave states, tabulated in 1850,
there was milch cow to every 3-4 per-
son. In the free states, tabulated, one
for every 81 persons In 1860, in the
slave states one for every four persons.
and in the free states, one to every SO
persons, or Sigh gain of the proportion
ate number of mich COWS.
The want of good meadow lands in
most of the slave states, the poor and in
sufficient quantity of food usually given to
mich cows, the unsheltered condition in
which they are kept, and the neglect of
them by the negroes, would make the
yield of milk less than one-half per each
cow of those in the northern states. This
appears to be shown by the amounts of
butter and cheese produced.
We see in the above our road to prog
ress. Cotton has failed or will fail us; the
negro has failed or will fail us; it is idle to
hope longer to enjoy peaceably the pro-
ceeds of his labor, when at this m; ment
eighty thousand of his color are organized
and hold arms in their hands to free their
fellows. The longer the war is protracted
the more violently will slavery be de-
stroyed. For two years and half we
have waged war, and lost over half the
territory over which we asserted jurisdic-
ton. The supply of cattle no longer
comes from Texas, nor does cotton escape
longer from the frontier to furnish us sup
plies. The Mississippi bears hundred
gunboats, half of them iron clads, that ef-
fectoaliy prevent our occupation of any
point along its entire course, or even the
passage OF it, except under cover of dark
ness and by stealth.
The fruitful valleys of Kentucky and of
Tennessee have been desolated by war.
and are held by the enemy. Arkansas. q
large part of Louisiana, Of Mississippi. of
North Carolina, and of Virginia. have
been held or are now held by the enemy
and have been exhausted by the supnl;es
drawn by the contending forces. Nor can
we regard Alabama, Georgia, South Caro-
lima or Texas exempt from the march of