Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-02-03
WHY De Bow was Imprisoned.
j New Corner Stone for the S0nth-Cotton no
Longer King.

/ Il is fact not generally known that De-
Bow the Southern Reviewer and the only
man at the South possessing attainments suf-
| ficient to edit first class review, has been
/ imprisoned BY JEFF. Davis and his Regier sup
pressed in consequence Of an article going to
show that cotton was no longer King. An
article based upon indisputable figures and
I facts
The following are the more important por-
tions Of the article which have caused De-
Bows incarceration:
( Il Is true we have believed that cotton Is
/ king; it Is undeniable that we possessed
monopoly for its production arising out OF
/ variety Of causes, but it Is not true that il
viii grow nowhere else Indeed We find that
\ the production Of 1t in various countries IS
! increasing in a geomctric ration and that III
yuar or 80 the South will no longer be needed
I 10 supply the commerce of the globe with
( what yainly hoped would grow nowhere
/ else
Shall we not learn from our enemies?
( What are the causes of their prosperity
/ Why do even the labOrcrs Of the North live
I with degree Of comfort often unknown to
I the wealthy planters OF the South:
The statistical reports accompanying the
/ census of 1860 establiA fully the results of
/ people Of the North have already hardly felt
+ the war up 10 this point, We must look TO and
examine the material conditions which sur
round them.
They cannot be more prosperous because
there IS no slavery; certainly 1t IS cheaper 70
have "a slave who lIbOrs for YOU than TO labor
YOURSELF therefore, slave labor is the more
I economical. or rather II was before the time
/ of Henry 4 Wise and John Brown Consid-
criug the present condition of the country,
and pr1spectivcly, also, il may we'll he sup
posed, as it aircadv IS by many in the slave
/ States that il ac ually may bc more ecouom-
zeal 10 labor for ourselves than 60 maintain
negroes for that purpose.
We have taken TO raising cereals ard have
succeeded So badly as to make it matter of
! doubt whether we viii not have eaten every
thing before tEc time of greens, which when
boiled with fowl, are so priced by the First
Families Of Virginia
In the meantime, the production of cotton
4 is slipping away from MS, and we have already
slipped away into unknown depths and
are drifting to fearful and to an uncertain
future
The people Of the North live comfortably
/ more 81. indeed thau the majority of the
( slave owners in the South. They educate
their children, and teach them that there is
4 no diSh0uor i'm employing either their hands
or their heads, and | say boldly, even against
/ our prciudiccs ] think they are right in that.
/ We know that the turnip crop of England
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si5 81 my ONE. I'l,g, ana n@r uenellHcy
/ is th. greatest. NAV uc not suppose that eth
~ the deficiency lnolclJed, or some cause
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