The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-05-10

There is a great scarcity offood in many
localities in the South and extreme aud
often fatal suffering arises from that sad
fact VIII our people repeat this upon
themselves We do not mean that they Z
brought upon themselves this scarcity and +
suffering; or that they could possibly have
obviated it. We all know that this want
of food has been felt in those districts
which were desolated by the Federal sol
diery during the war. in their marches |
through the South. We believe there is
but little or no absolute want anywhere
else. Where Sherman and Wilson went
want is most keenIy felt, for Alaric never
more keenIy relshed the idea of subjuga-
ton by destroying the very means of liv-
ing. We therefore say, that no part Of
the South is responsible for the suffering
now felt This need not be repeated, how
ever, by our own agency. There is no
Sherman now marching through our land,
''smashing things to the sea, driving old
men and women and children before him,
/ and leaving desolation and ruin behind
him. No Sherman and Wilson, burning
houses and barns aud plows and wagons
and farming implements and fences and
corn aud fodder, and killing, in very wan
tonness of malice, cattle and sheep and hogs
and poultry. We fear none of this now,
and then, if want again overtakes us, in
this generous soil and genial cline, it will
be our WIN fault, and not that of an invad-
ing leader, at the head of a vicious and re-
lentless band. Let our people do their
duty, and they can yet defy the malice OF
their fees. Let them plant corn, corn,
corn. If our warning be needed, it will
be doubly valuable to them, If they viii
plant so much grain as to render Us forever
independent of the Northwest, it will be
the first step toward freedom. The South
is The chief market for the Northwest In
the matter Of food we can soon be totally
independent, if we will. Any other arti-
Gle produced there and consumed here,
may be supplied by our own hand, after a
while-it may be years but food we can
raise at once, in all abundance, and we
owe it to ourselves to do so. We heard an
intellic ent commission merchant say, a few
days ago, that after this season he would
never make advances to a Southern planter
who did not raise enough food for his own
family and plantation wants. This is
sound policy, and every merchant should
adopt it.
But besides rendering ourselves indie
pendent of the Northwest, by raising our
own food, we can extend that independence
greatly if we will refuse to rise more cot
ton than will barely supply our own plan
tation wants. Our enemies count upon g.
600, 900 bales this season. If we would
raise but half million, they would rapid
" recover their senses and begin to do US
justice. Indeed we are positively sure that
if not a seed were planted in all the South
it would be the best thing that ever hap
pened for US. Our advice to our planting
friends is to plant no cotton at all, unless
needed for their own consumption. We
beg that our words may be beeded. Let
our people raise corn and stock. Plant
corn. Raise stock. Let cotton 60 to the
dogs One years want of cotton will stop
New England looms. That will touch
Yankee sympathy, and the South will then
begin to regain her power Memphis A0a-
LaBche.