The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-08
Cultivation Of Cotton By While
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Cultivation Of Cotton by While
Labor.
The New York Times OF the 4sh inst,
directs the attention of northern en-
ierants 70 the cotton lands Of Texas.
It states that in January, 1860, it vas
informed by a citizen of Texas, that
the State could easily raise, in one
year, 100000 bales Of cotton, if labor
ers could only be procured to cultivate
the soil. The Times goes on TO say:
The productiveness Of the State, as q
cotton-feld, was not overstated by the
Texan It's fertile prairies produce i'm
mense quantities OF the upland variety,
with the simplest method Of cuiiVa-
ton; while on the extensive chain Of
islands encircli1g its cosstthe finest Sea
Island cotton known to the market
grows with a luxuriousness which would
astonish q South Carolina planter. With
this great capacity for the production
of cotton, Texas differs frOm.the other
Gulf States in the nature of its soil and
the healthfulness Of its climate
The most rabid advocate of slave
labor has never pretended that a white
man could not work there IS q lAborer,
II he would; for a trip through the
State would show the fallscy Of the
pretenee. Little colonies of German
emigrants, scattered through every
county, engaged with success IN the cul-
ovation of cotton, without hired OF pur-
chased negro help. In one instance OF
which we have personal knowledge, 8
German family Of ten raised annually
b. their own labor, a larger crop thar
the forced production Of forty hands on
an adjoining plantation. Here then
are c~otton~feIds which, no one di, putes,
can be successfully worked by white
labor Here ere the vast prairies oi
the West under Summer skies.
10 the European emigrant, to the
struggling northern farmer, to the prov
ident volunteer, seeking investment fol
ms savings, is offered a chance for 2
fortune more promising than the gold
fields Of Colorado. Seeking q home il
Texas, he VIII find q climate warm, buI
not enerVating, salubIious, and entirely
Tree from al malarious diseases, witt
q soil unsurpassed in fertility, and the
gruat variety of lie productions whilC
The eheapness of the land makes j
. syniiable 20 men Of the smallest means
The product Of q single successful croI
Of cotton would more than repay th'
settler Tor his entire outlay IN the puT
chase and stock OF n Texan cottOr
farm
The advantages OF Texas are, proba
bly,, not overstated. It's productiveness
ike its territory, is vast, ilimitable, a
Mr. Webster characterized it. Blu
Texas IS not the only State in whicl
cotton can be successfully cultivated b!
white labor. 1t was a part Of the pc
CT Of the shareholders Of the South, Il
sustain their system of labor and Il
prevent composition with laborers o
= higher and more enterpIising elias
than theirs, to assert and reassert tina.
OILY negro slaves could cultivate cot
Ton. The chief reason assigned wa
the hest Of the climate and unhealthi
ness OF The cotton zone. They kneV
this to be false; for there were few plan
tatione IN the South on which Their
,gere not some white laboTers. tn
war has, however, exploded the slave
holders theory. Every portion Of tn
South has been visited by whit
soldiers in the discharge Of thei
duties duties (which required Q
taem a lie less regular and health
fal than that of the laborer-and the
have not only withstood the heat ant
mrlama, but absolutely improved i
health and strength. After this, n
one need fear to make the South hi
home, and to Iring with him whit
labor TO- the express purpose Of cult
vt.ing cotton.
Deprived of their slaves, the owner
of large plantations viii be compele'
by their necessities to divide and sui
divide their lands, and sell al the
cannot cultivate. This viii give Nortl
ern emigrants an opportunity to pu.
chase lands, and TO introduce whit
laborers And, IN the course Of a fer
years, they will have not only aide
materially 10 The aggregate productio
of cotton, but to the variety OF farI
products They will produce NOR
grain, more fruits, more cattle, hog
sheep, horstf, mules, dc. Under tn
inspiration OF their industry and ei
terprise, the South viii indeed "blo
som as the rose.