The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-09-21

pectations of the most moderate calculators.
VIII there be found enough to subsist the
people of the South harvested from. the in
coming crop? Will the income from the
cotton and tobacco crops supply the de-
fcieney2
We answer emPhatically, no; and we
think thatour opportunities of learning cor
reeey the crop prospects for the present
year have been very good.
staryesionl mark it, reader, starvation.
viii be the doom of many people in the
Southern States. unless some means of re-
lief are early and judiciously adopted.
Why pine over the lose of liberty aud
property? Why exercise ourselves about
tlsl success of Andrew Johnson's policy
and the defeat of the Radicals. Our liber-
tysis hopelessly lost; our property by the
million taken from US without just compen-
sation. Feeble men and women and help
less sschildren will soon be ealing on US for
food. Where is it to be procured?
Will the creditor class in the long run
benefit their fortunes BY expressing the
debtor, who has barely a subsistence for
himself and family?
Will the indebtedness of the farmers ever
be paid judgments are executed, and the
lands of the country thrown ii great masses
upon the market under the sherif's ham
mer?
When capital is needed in the country to
develop its resources, can the producer be
benefited by its investment in non-tax-
able 1905?
If capital is welded in such a manner as
to cripple, if not destroy production, then
let the producer content himself with secur-
ing bare subsistence and if 1905 are
non taxable while cotton is taxable three
cents per pound, raise no more cotton
forever m e.,t
We, the people of the South. have yet to
realize the full extent of our disasters. Our
pride has met with a great fall, and we
have hardly yet reached the depths of the
degradation we must submit to.
We are Powerless and must ever remain
so to retrieve the past. While we must
not, cannot resist our masters, we ought not
to work for them for nothing, and this we
will have to do if we continue to raise cot
ton.
Those of US, who were indebted at the
close of the war, cannot pay out by raising
cotton. What then? If the creditor and
the tax -gatherer are determined to have our
homesteads, let them have them, but let US
be no longer slaves for them. Our credit
ors ought to suffer In common with US, for
a common cause has divested us of proper
ty. We cannot afford to make slaves of our
selves and children to I'll the Golfers of the
Wall street capitalists, who loaned his
money to destroy US, and secured for him
self therefor banking and brokers' privi-
leges on unprecedented1y advantageous
terms.
Rather let our locomotives cease to whis-
tie and the grass grow in the statets of
every town in the South? For the plain
matter of fact is we must diversity our pur-
suits. The hope of becoming fabulously
rich, in a short time, ought to be entertain
ed by none. We and our children must
now make our wits pay US. The old routine
of cotton culture, which required but little
intellect, must be left TO those who care not
to think, and still cherish the absurdity
that cotton is king.
In our chimney corners, our children
must be taught to use their inventive facul-
ties, and exercise their judgment in putting
to practical uses philosophical principles,
| and esteem nothing beneath their inyesti-
| cation from gate latch to a steam engine
Let each and every true man look the
situation directly in the face, and resolve
that whatever misfortunes he may have to
submit to, he will by his precepts and ex-
ample prepare his children to adapt them
selves to the social, political and economi-
cal changes, which are necessarily conse-
quent from the results of the great issue oI
the past.
WelIl what next? After the loss of our
cause, our rights, our property, our free
dom of speech, we must cheerfully submit
Then starvation stares many in the face
Many of the people of the South are hope
lsssly in debt. They cannot, in what their
creditors regard as a reasonable time, pay
their ante-war Indebtedness. Cotton is an
oppressor, and if we continue to cultivate
it, will continue to be tyrant over US.
What next? Raise no more cotton
Make subsistence. Teach our children how
to adapt themselves to the new order o
things. Thus they may secure for them.
selves an equality of rights and pecuniary
independence which we old Rebels ESQ
called" can never hope to attain to in thiI
life. The fat has gone forth, and our doom
is sealed. For we and such as we car
never, how much soeyer we may try, hop,
to be more than now.
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