The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-17

over twenty bushels per acre, but I
cotton can be made on lands rich !
o.. poor, II, good or bad seasons, with |
much or little cultivation, planted early |
or late, will remain IN the field with
less waste than any other crop, and
can be kept in the house or bale longer
r7asi witness the past four years sand
more ofsit IN value can be taken to
market with less labor and expense
than anything that grows out Of
mother earth. We have cotton conn-
try, and cotton must be its staple pro-
duct for years to come. AS long as
people are born naked they will need
shirts. If we cultivate with free labor,
white or black, we ought to employ
mostly males The surplus females,
of both colors, who are obliged
to work, will find employ in cotton
nills-1when the cotton field and cotton
factory are placed side By which
will soon be the case. if we understand
ourown interests I9see an article. In
the Standard, Of goth january, and
would be glad to see the attention Of
men of large and small means, often in
vited to- the same subject. {GRiding
in December last with anaold and re-
spected planter from near Grand
Gulf he remaked, that he had fVe
thousand dollars in greenbacks he
would invest forthwith in a cotton fac
tory anywhere in the county. This
man was quite wealthy six years, ago,
but is probably as badly used up as
any in, the county. i think there isno
great deal of this currency lying idle
among us; but there is a Tsuperabun-I
dance in other States which will find
its way, when law, and order, and reli-
able labor, become well established.
The accomplished and classic Summer,
the philanthropic Stevens and ia op,afe,
Will invest in Dixie land, when found
more lucrative than Lowell. ii Bs99bai
q One volume Of our State historyeis
complete new volume is beginning.
It is hardly worth while for the men
and women on the shady side Of fifty
to take. a part. They cannot adapt
themselves toathe new political and
social systems inevitably approaching.
tits not necessary they should. Fire
wood, shelter, clothing, and three meals
a day, was all they. eyer, got, with their
hundreds of slaves and thousands OF
cotton bales Thesethey can still have
without severe toll! Let them turn
things over to the young, ehterprisiDg,
sober, industrious and frugal. For
them a new era HAS dawned, such as
has not adawned for the last, and
will not, probably for the next century.
Encourage them to put in. and my
prophecy viii be false if fortunes are
not realized, which such planters as
John Rolth, and Gosey, and Del Griffin,
our largest cotton growers never
dreamed Of, Fortunes that will ITpot
be swept from the earth by the first
breeze of war-4ias4 were our slaves.
The siibsistence and wealth of this
State is in its own soil. Tickle it with
labor, white or black, and crops ot
feecy white will laughiout, and the
California mines will be nothing to the
untold millions that will overflow our
now dilapidated and down -trodden
land. I see in one of your January
issues figures showing a great increase
in the production Of cotton in, Other
parts of the world No doubt most O
these are true. but there is no part o.
the habitable globe thatacan compete
with the aIluyions of The Mississippi
and its tributaries south of $50; ever
the old worn out and quilted qpland'
i of this county can he made valuable fol
, the cultivation of cotton asI nal19.
You get numerous exchanges I see
pray condense something from them
we would like to know what our rulers
} are doing at Washington City. On
congressman are not yet admitted, ant
it is important to none but themselves
| they should be. They would Ike +
: get their mileage and $4,000 compensa
ton, butEas to any good they could d'
| there for this State they may as wei
be, between a pair of plough handles i
the field. helping to make something
for theirsfamiles fto8 eat and wear.
saw this out of nos disrepect, for the,
are all honorable and able gentlemen
. but we are bottom dog in the fight AM
are like to SO remain till we are wei
wallowed.s Irgrieye to see Coy, Hum
, phreys spoken wen of by the Louis
q Vile journal. What has his Excel
! leney done that the wicked shoul'
praise him? 4s aslt gs sa
! "a word about cotton moneys every
: body who got that advance ought t
! pay ii, back in. the saraes The few 1ln
! able to do so can be letoff. bsOnebale 9
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