The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-11
Cotton Planters from the North.
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Notwthstandtnp the unsettled condition Of the coun
try many Northern farmers went South 10 the early
months o this year the purpose OF planting cotto
Many Others pers ,aded that great Inducements were
offered for the production of cotton CROP would nave
accompanied their neghbors. but found TO
make the necessary arrangements IN time for the plant
ing season. Others still would gladly have gone, but
restrained for want OF definite knowledge as 70 To-
cates most congena to Northern settlers THOSE VINO
won't and who used reasonable judgment Ia selecting
and stocking plantaons, send us ENCOURAGING reports
The inducements to embark tn the enterprise remain
about the same at the beginning OF the year. There
is immediate prospect of material decline IN the
price Of cotton and theres much good land ready foS
the plough lying ting capital and 10
bor t make productive This Southern planters have
always been short Of capital, and as rule lived st
least year in advance of their incomes The rebel
lion overlook them deeply indebted to the merchants,
and the close the involved both planter and fac
tor In bankruptcy, from which they osn be released
only by The Introduction of means from abroad Most
plantations not under cultivation are des ttute OF
everything butgood soil and an abundance Of timber.
The requirements TO convert these to use are first OF oil
capita-a least S6000 with which to procure and sup
port ten sborers six mules three ploughs two wagons
and small implements In sets Of half dozen each, for
every hundred Of land to be cultivated In pos.
the 5 M
Dor; enterprising merchants have shipped to every
Southern city and considerable village plantation sup
plies of every Kind, and droves Of mules from Texas
and the West offered for sale IN every county and
parish whers there is money to buy them.
In the Douth m states as elsewhere, some sections
settled by intelligent industrious, and aw-abding
people, who would gltdly welcome men from the
North who come with capital and industry to cultivate
thu soil Other portions Of the country settled by
iEnorant self. .conceited braggarts, who aft ct to
despise honest labor and hostile TO any and all
who by precept or example run counter to their
narrow notions 1t will not be difficult to pick out
the desirable communities; they found in almost
every of the cotton States and will readily bo dis
to select place for the formation of settlement.
Georgih, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
settled in ~ their most fertile and desirable tracts by
goery to GAINESVILLE the Tombigbee Rivor, is
Of these localities where both the people and the soil
would be acceptable. On Bayou Boeuf In Louisiana
snd. if the overflow can be prevented on Bayous De
Gsze and Teche, and in the Bed River country, from
Alexandria to the ne the inhabitants would re-
oioe at the opportunity to revive the prosperity Of their
beautiful garden like countries by the aid Of Northern
capital and skill
oThe time for making the necessary negotiations and
hand The planter should be on his plantation with
his a,,orng force snd implements before the first of
fnsIred by early planting In the localities just named,
Corn may be planted In february al cotton as carly as
the2middle March, and should certainly BIZ III the
ground before the middle of April There is also much
Tork to be done in the way of ditchng toncin4 and
repairing Of buildings roads and hrdge Def Jro The
6ssnS baanns arGada eAsns
There is. perhaps no oomnunity in the Southern
States wherein the families OF Northern men will be
speedily Welcomed into society It is therefore, do Ira
ble to form sett emens ID for this purpose agents
should be Immediately with authority to select
and contract for the La OF purchase of the required
uumDer Oh acres lQF setuelueuC VI ualI uuAeu VI
more families, THUS the new settlers will he able to
regulate their Bhovl and church affairs to their own
lkins andt to secure many other privileges that could
not be attained by individ al effort. The neghbors
would also serve efence to each other and by the
example of ,eir osperity would induce the old ojti-
zens to court their society.
Since slavery has been abolished agreed by I'LL
classes that the climate OF the lower cum les of
the Cuff States is not inhospabe to white labor and
that all the products hitherto grown In tho on ID can
be successful, aud prodtably cultivated by any race or
people that will ndusriously apply itself to the work.