The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-04
rhe south IL not Ruined.


The day Ut small thing, id not Uror, aud those
who puy sttuutiun to them will in tho end be bcle-
lifted. Every eii1rt should be made tU rtunuize
% aud turn TO advantage the gifts oi nature: The
tunt lesson, aud tho good effect Of ii will become
more and more visible each wear. They are not
thnt is lost cry nut in despair that God has ruined
tho country and cursed tho land. Great injustice
has bccn ,One To tho planters by the accounts
givon III tho newspapers Of supcrabundant cotton
crops. Tho Inst f0llr weeks demonstrate conclu-
sively that the crop is absolutely ruined in Texas
and Louisiana, AMI the WORMS are fast doing tho
same work i'll Alabama. Notwithstanding this,
some farmers HOT out with tho determination to
mike their farms support them, aud in spite Of
Ut cotton ruin thoy lavc, by means OF grain and
corn, secured suficicncy to live OH for tho next
year. Tho country is not ruined, md the expert
cncc now learning should teach those who culti-
Eate tho soil the folly OF planting all cotton to the
neglect OF other equally great necossaries.
We road on yesterday letter from North Caro-
lima which said that would sell for t2 or SO
per bushel in that State, because chat crop was a
that tho ieopla OF tho "old North State" would get
through somchaw, because they have learned how
10 save Al an illustration of their thrifty ccono
my le said they sold $3.50. .0U3 worth Of blackber-
rios last year, and sold moro this yoar. They wero
curtailng their expenses, aud tu ladies', too. were
abrldglng the dimensions Of their dresses to suit
the present embarrassed timos. Tho fall Of the
year il tho time to begin to prepare for a system
uf farming that will result not to ruin plant
ers II any ono OF their crops should provo total
DeSiH WIFI tue ueteTnhhhti0n OF raising
your own stock and Tor that purpose 30 uso your
fields nat they will answer until late in the
stock.
Tho South has got to learn tn raise it's own meat
and bread, anu It would DO good itlea, too, to
weayo ita own cloths. Right before orr oses ia
paragraph from Rhode Island paper, u State
hardly any larger than Montgomery County, Civ
ing the amount OF property owned by cotton spin
ners i'll thai State al s25.O0O,Goo. That mdncy
Was made out If Southern cotton and mostly out
Of Southern people. The fuolish cry was heard at
tho beginning Of tho wor that cotton would decide
tho contest in our favor. II didn't. Since its
cioae uOarly oycry effort to rasD il has failed
and it begins to look ~ If He who il praised in ali
our Sanctnures oday, aud who sends tho worm and
keeps back tho rain, wants to help mako us indie
pendent by raising broadBtuffs horses and niulos by
making our own clothing un1 saving tho surplus
to buy from other sections what we cannot mako
ourselves. There iB not q sensible man but knows
NO can do all these things, and until wo do NO will
not bc an independent people. It il time for lis
TO ceaao being dependent upon those abroad for
tho food VIC cat aud tho clothes w0 wear. We have
boon doomed to much snrrow and suffering, and it
looks az It great eIDcctatiOns OF cotton crop
are TO be dashed 10 the ground again. but tho
power il in higher than earthly hands. Tho South
Is not ruined, and God's ourso i'd not upon it, but
II looks as II He fr0wns upon thu attompts to
maku il merely n cotton country.