The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-08-28
Cotton.

The New YORK IneS has pceh iooAine
into cotton. and has come to the conclu-
sion "that the cotton crop planted does
:, NOT promise an increase over that OF last
Year, even without the usual accidents
4of flood, worm, and FROST" To account
Gov this fact that there is no increase, the
Times goes on to say that there " is
,,;.hdrawal Of labor for several reasons"
come Of which it rccites, leaving out, how
ever, the principal one, that of agitation by
s+rollinr fanatics and political scavengers,
including large number Of vagabonds and
thieves, who are exciting negroes with ideas
thew do not comprehend, and filling them
with expectations Of consequence and
thrift 10 come, under the civil rights bill;
and. IS a matter of course, which are to
be wofully disappointed.
The Times, drawing these causes OF the
withdrawal of labor rather mildly, is forced
to fill up gap its reasons otherwise would
leave by attributing the reduction of crop
in great degree to the deterioration OF the
Iqnd and the want of new land in cultiva-
ton. There is nothing whatever in this.
The land is not deteriorated. 1t has i'm
proved from rest, and with the same To-
Dor this year that there was in 1859, would
produce more than 100000 Of bales.
The surgeon of the Times does not cut
deep enough-he has not reached the dis
ease. So far from the lands having dcte-
riorated, the armies, by their camps and
their battle fields, so enriched thousands Of
acres as to make them produce more than
ever, if they could be properly cultivated.
Let the Times go on with its inquest ; it
may after time find out how so much
cotton is missing, and how so much land is
left waste and untitled.
The Times looks sadly at the waning
American supremacy in the cotton cul-
ture, and is alarmed at the accommodating
supplies from India, Egypt, and elsewhere.
1t is not disposed to let matters go on with
out some effort to mend them. ItdeclareS
that elf the cotton manufacturers Of Ame-
"rica expect to compete for the market OF
"thc world they must nave cheap COTTON
Exactly! which the Radical cotton-spin-
ners Lave been slow to understand. They
have sought the golden egg, and have
ripped the goose that laid tin several
ways, and lastly by the tax on cotton. The
Times reproves the Government for selling
out the southern railroads for public
offences, and urges that they be rein
statcd-not as matter Of justice, but one
of mere policy, that the nation may go Oh
manufacturing and controlling the market.
1t would open Texas by railway "as into
the Dude and Pupjaub." Yes, the Texans
are quite as good as the Indians! Why
not?
Tho Times calls for convention be-
tween the cotton spinners and the cotton
planters to confer on the extraordinary
causes (" which have Frustrated each, and
"to devise means by which the cotton
"contest with England may be waged in
"tho mutual interest Of EACH" BY all
means. This would be most delightful
convention, wherein brothers wonld de-
liberate together in harmony. 1t is doubt
ful whether the poor cotton planter viii
have the funds to pay his way to the con
vention and should he have the "scrip,
we don't know what he can say when ht
gets there, save to tell the spinner how
PROSTATE he is through the spinner
policies, which have subordinated him t.
his late slaves, disorganized the labor o
the land, taxed his products to death, ant
continued the desslation Of war through
years in which wise measures and human,
laws would have restored the country tt
peace and plenty, if not prosperity. Thi
convention would be worth going long
way to see this meeting of DIVES anC
LAZARUS to consult about their mutual IN,
treSts, DIVES wants LAZARUS to eco.
operate"