Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-19
UNTIL THE NEXT CROP COMES IN.

"All the Americans" are impatiently
awaiting the next crop The Brazillians
and allies haven't their enemies like
a spring freshet, and the Paraguayans are
not altogether out Of the woods. They are
vigorously cultivating the war, and are look
ing forward 10 the next crop" JUAREz
and MACMILLAN are respectively looking
to a windfall Of Liberal Patriots" or illib-
eral gucrillas, or delay of the French
withdrawal or the arrival Of fresh Aus
TRAN contingent. Even the Confederate eX-
lies are building largely on the next crop Of
bananas, coffee, chocolate, oranges, emigrants
and aqua drdieHte. Ina the United States the
same mental anxiety and heart-hopes, in
tensifed are fixed upon the next crop! The
poor and desolate people Of our Southern
States are just now toiling and sweating for
the next crop. They look to it as the gate
way Of their immediate re-entry into COM
Portable physical life, through which they
may cut avenues to prosperity and luxury.
Hundreds and thousands of those once af-
fluent will go forth in the early sunbeams
Of this morning and sacrifice the sweat
offering to the goddess Of the fields and the
next crop" Even the Tycoon Of the "Bu-
reau for r., F., and A. (which means
the fseedmen's paradise, where the mundane
heaven Of Government" distils each NOR
r Il
out money and without price"-Gen. How
ARD, says, in very recent letter, Il will
endeavor 10 prevent starvation until the
next crop comes in" We shouldn't be sur
prised if STEVENS and SUMNER, in their
line are not watching, with equal interest,
the next crop Of politicians that are to
flourish in the national capital and give the
world the ripened fruits of their wisdom.
What the crop prospects are in South
America and Mexico we have personally
about as little knowledge as interest, except
in the matter Of coffee, bananas, etc. In our
own Southern land we are led to believe
that the husbandman will be justly compen-
stated for his toll. If the seasons are auspi-
cious the frugal farmer will lay up in his
garner bread-stufls for the winter and until
the neH crop" and be able to sell some
cotton besides. Next year the good house
wife will have a mouslin or calico dress, in
stead of'the ''indigo and white" toadorn her
person in her devotions at church. We
trust too, that the daughter will be compli
mented in the fall with suitable "worsted"
pattern from the store in which she
may receive the now quiet laborer, who has
passed through the storms of war unfinch
ingly, and who may be inclined with her to
re-people decimated land with the increas-
ing crop Of gears. We have hopes Of the
Southern crops Of all sorts. Since 1865 we
have planted no seeds for the growth of
turbulence and violence, secession, revolu-
ton or war. We raise no crops Of that
this, or next, or any future year. The con-
duct of the people of the South will furnish
the peaceful pastorals of poetic history for
an hundred years at least-J they are let
alone They feel comfortable under the
past, because they were honest and sincere
then. If they smart little now, it is be-
cause they feel the injustice that is being in
ficted. They will, nevertheless, pursue the
even tenor Of their way, and whatever Of
of contention and misfortune may visit the
Union will not be traceable to them
The SUNINER-STEvENs "crop" admits Of
a greater doubt and different culture.
Pluto may plant and the Devil himself if you
please, may water; but the political increase
in this country must come from the people.
The seeds are sown, and if the people are TO
receive and enjoy the wheat, they must
eliminate and cast aside the cheat and the
cookie. The ballot is the only patent ma
chine known among us TO do the work.
When it is brought into requisition let the
entire people bear their appropriate share
in the work, and bring forth the Constitution
from the dust and chat, the straw and cheat
as the only valuable result of the process
and ifs lobprs