American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-11-09
coRRnsP oNDEEcE OF THE MEM
80 PHIS APPEAL.
DEER CgEEK, WASHINGTON Co."
MISS. November |, 1857,

Deay S;yS Under the IMPRESSION q
that the great masses of the people, :
IA we'll as MANY in the commercial y
world are still ignorant OF the exteil-s \
siyc ravages committed by the army : !.
worm on the present crop OF cotton, !,
have concluded, now that the work = :,
of ruin is about complete, to add
word in reference to the matter, ..
especially as regards this immedi- ..
ate section of country. =
OF the almost complete destruc-
ton of the plant in Louisiana, en-
bracing the extensive Red river iahas, ,
tbe Teche and Tensas section; por-
tions of Georgia, Alabama, South
Mississippi and the coarse sections
of Teyas. your readers have been
previously informed. A letter, just |
TO hand, from the upper east lands IN
TEXAS. in the Palestine regions, in
forms me of the ruin OF the crop
there.
The worm made its appearance
late in this country, and but Tor the
1 lands baying been overlooked, max
inn the crop some four weeks behind |
time, and the plant young ana ten
der. the effects would not have been |
So disastrous, AS it is, l have con
yersed freely with intelligent plant
ers from different parts OF the coun-
try. and the general opinion IS, that
the crop is cut short one-thlrd OF
what would have been a very short
crop at best. immediately on the
creek for twenty miles above and be-
/ low nv place. the damage has been
much greater, say from one-third to
5 two thirds short. On this place
, am sure we had ten thousand dollars
, in value destroyed in ten days, ana
: many of my neighbors Jared no BET
2 ter.
+ The result is, that not one in ten
+ who planted this, will be able IT, pro
e cure the capital to plant next year,
t and in the prophetic language OF the
: lamerted Judge Shall Yerger' inns
L country equal to any in the world IN
>, richuess of soil will grow up wild,
If erness.n Speaking of this good and
: great man, whose loss we all feel and
O depIore. he farther predicted that IN
:. coming wears, 6 India would ship
/. her cotton up the Mississippi to New
It York. to supply Northern manufac-
?. tories :. that Mississippi would not
h make more cotton than would DC
c needed for her own consumption.
o. Now, sir, if the index hand whlcl
@. noints t., the future, assures us O
t, any thing, it is that the freedman
W bewildered as he is by politics, won !
f. work for in proportion as you pu'
re- his thick Uranium to thinking, it dis
st. places all thought OF work. Some 0
TO nv neighbors, who planted largely
Nv in cotton, say from four to SIX hun
n bred acres, will not tie LOO bales
rd Thus on a line of twenty miles OF
ir. tbe creek. two hundred thousand dol
of lars has been lost to the planters D,
yc this wears efforts to make cotton, II
la provisions for hands and teams. :,
be do not belong to that class OF rel
c-;>,;s+e who ran discern snecla
ra- which occurs in this world OF compll
ed cations, for as high as the heaven
Oh is above the earth, so high are Hi
zee WAYS and thoughts above ours )" Blu
m. what means this universal blow a
he the cotton plant, not only in the Gul
ed but Middle Stats, in such a varlet,
St of soil and climate? 1t cannot III
We atmospheric, and yet there is ;
so cause. If Providence speaks in thi
for matter, does it not say to the whit
ed men in the South, "You shall MOI
lss crow cotton to the prejudice ofever.
20 other interest and comfort, AM
to make yourselves 'hewers of WOO
ed and drawers of water for corrup
by Government that seeks only you
is dcstructiction, and their own aggran
NO dizement by taxation, oppression
hO and negro supremacy Up and may /
re not be designed as check upon tn
re collection of so many negroes upol
it one place, which is beyond doubt ex
on ceedingly corrupting. The negroes
ic. already demOralzed by the failure
to- are preparing to go North, many o
TX them, and with some Memphis seem
of to he the point of attraction, Will
id. those who resided here before tn
to war are beginning to lay claims t.
I'm the lands aad offices. There ar
IS, candidates on this place for nearl
on every Office of the county, and in tn
is county for every Office in the State
H. while the black prelates, with thei
en- dense aud sable crowds, make nigh
hideous with what they call religion
ng meetings, shouting senseless prating
in and prayers, offensive to God an,
no disgusting to man. They are est
err mated ten to one in this county, an
~ on day appointed for working tn
rel road below me, there were ten whit
men and one hundred and seventy
FIVE colored. With the spirit am
temper that now characterize them
If the time is rapidly approaching
at when this will he Pandemoniun
in a state of active ebullition.
ny hope not to be here to witness tn
ng catastrophe. Yours truly,
an j. w. PHILLIPS.
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