The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-09

'S1ohs, i4huulSeu III py many, may not
be reached in this country. On this
subject the New York Tribune says:
Sin estimating probable prices of
grain IN Europe, the almost utter
.dearth of sbreadstuffs in many parts of
= the United States before the present
harvest is to be taken into acconat;
for, before foreign shipments can
reach former proportions, we must
be supplied at home. It is q singular
fact that in neither France, England,
nor IA 6ne United States, are there
old stocks Of wheat on hand, and the
next years bread must come almost
, wholly from this years crop"
:. And yet in the face OF this acknow-
aedged fact, the Tribune, in a former
article. enters q strong protest against
the abandonment of cotton planting
in the South, which the low prices,
and the unjust tax on the production
of the staple, would seem to warrant
IAN apprehension of. The Tribune
would have the Southern people to
rely chiefly upon the great grain pro-
ducing West, for their supplies, while
they make as much cotton as they
can. He assigns as reason for Civ
ing this advice, that any serious di-
.sninntion of cotton production would
bring great distress upon the North,
and her manufacturing and CONNER;
cial interests. Toask the people of the
South to pursue the suicidal policy
that journal recommends, for the pur-
pose Of preventing embarrassments
among the Northern people, after all
: they have done to impede the pro-
'duction of the great staple, is going
beyond even the impudence we might
expect from the Tribune. The South
ern people have suffered and endured
many hardships, and made many
sacrifices for the purpose of restoring
harmony and nnion between the peo-
pile of the two sections; but to ask
them to run the risk of famine for
the purpose of sustaining the spindles
and looms of New England, is an in
suit to their intelligence, after the
bitter experience Of the past. Ger
;tainly the South owes no debt Of
gratitude either to the North, East or
West, which would demand the sac
rifice now required by the Tribune,
and for the following reasons:
Cotton cannot be produced with
out loss at the present prices, owing
to the overthrow of the entire labor
of the South and the tax on its pro-
duction. With neither of these i'm
pediments had the Southern people
anything to do. They were imposed
upon them without their consent,
and by the unwise Legislation of those
who are now beginning to feel their
evil effects.
The experience of the pas 5wo
years must have demonstrated to
Southern agrioulturists, that their
first duty is to raise provisions enough
to be self-sustaining. The first was a
year of want approaching famine;
the last has justified their resolve to
plant large crops Of wheat and corn,
in the bounteous harvest that has
rewarded their labor. But even with
the extent of land planted in cereals,
adverse seaso' q would have prevent
cd any superabundance.
The cotton tax and the deranged
i"Sos system OF the South must of
necessity drive the planters and farm.
ers from any extensive culture of
cotton, until the one is repealed and
the other remedied by immigration
or otherwise. And although these
obstacles may be regarded as present
evils, they will undoubtedly work
together for good, il they initiate O
system of planting cereals through.
out the South and the general raising
OF cattle and other farming stock.
Thrift, industry md seIf-reliance are