Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-01-12
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THE PLANTING INTEREST.
From all we can hear, planters in this
section, says the Macon Journal are
preparing with less hope than last year,
but not with less energy, another crop
ming. Most of them will perhaps have
greater difficulties to encounter than
confronted them last year. We think
their stock Of provisions is, upon an
average, shorter, their supplies OF money
very little increased, while the chances
for loans and accommodations are worse.
With money at two and a half per
month, and everybody in a strait, affairs
must improve vastly before advances Of
cash or extended credits on provision
purchases can be reasonably expected by
the planter; and, at the same time the
result Of one years trial under the new
system, has sensibly diminished public
faith in the security o fdebts which must
he paid out Of net profits.
The fact is, the planter should abandon
forever the old idea OF operating on a
wears credit. In the olden time the
capital invested in his slaves furnished
ample security, As readily transmittabie
into cash as his cotton crop, Now, he
ear offer mons beyond the lands he cul-
tivates If he owns Them, and these are
slow of sale. Il Is Of vital Importance,
therefore, that the planter should be in
condition to assume his risks. He must
lay by, from year to year, abundance Of
corn and meat to provision his force, and
money enough to supply their operative
necessities. A far greater necessity Is
imposed upon him to provide well for
the future, than existed at the time
when he owned his own laborers, and
they, in fact, constituted a capital as
available as, and more productive than,
money at interest.
In this view of the matter many will
feel this year far more pungently than
ever before, the mistake Of falling to
make ample provision for food crops, and
We can not doubt that it is an error
which will be carefully avoided in the
future. The necessity Of buying and
transporting large supplies OF corn and
meat to the plantation, viii prove so
grievous and oppressive that we can
not believe a single Georgia planter
will fail of giving his sharpest attention
10 the cornfeld and the stock. With
plenty Of meat and bread, and a stock Of
money enough to supply the current
wants Of his laborers in clothing, tobacco,
etc, the road is clear for a fair and COM
Portable agricultural experiment, with
out imp0rtuning money lenders and
tradesmen to assume your risks OF
a crop failure, and charge ac-
cordingly. Let each planter, there
fore, during the present season, devote
his first care to laying a solid foundation
Tor future operations. and the road there
after viii be comparatively smooth and
easy.
We are pleased to note a growing de-
mand for guanO and chemical manures.
Considering the poverty Of the country,
the market for these products is remarka-
bly, active, and we are confident that all
our planters will find it to their account Z
70 cultivate less land, with greater care q
and thoroUghness. A deepand thorough s
pulverizati0n of the soil, with the use Of +
manures Of all kinds viii produce sur 2
prisiug results. We believe It will be il
found easier and cheaper to raise twenty Z
bushels Of corn on one acre than on two. :
But let every man try the experiment, if f
but on a small scale, and satisfy him
self. n
WHAT n SOUTH HAS re EXPECT d
In the United States house Of represent o
tatives on Saturday, says the Charleston L
Mercury, THAD. STEVENS declared that i
he would never vote for the admission Of ;
any state which did not confer negro J
suffrage and it is also stated that be c
will to-day introduce a resolution in
structing the Judiciary committee 10 pre- y
pare a bill, if e~Tpedient, declaring the tC
southern states to be in q state Of siege, OF
and ~suspeEding the writ of haJcas cor Il
pas, and establishing military govern hi
until they are regularly readmit- 70
led. al
During the debate in the house, Mr.. 50
SPAULDING, Of Ohio, said if three-fourths
Of the states would ratify the amend 3,
ment, Virginia would make no objection u
and Mr.. KELLY, of Pennsylvania, said M,
the writers Of letters which he had re- al
seived from North and South Carolina Il
expressed the same views. ~
The position Row openly taken by ~
Trad. STEVENS, as the representative Of N
he extreme radicals, shows plainly that %
the right Of representation alone were y
issue, the southern states would still
gain nothing by adopting the amend
We might dishonor ourselves "
We might sacrifice all those gallant men GO
Who fought and bled fo- Us during the IA
ate war; We might falsify all our priu- w
iples and our every belief; We might W,
i've up all hope Of material prosperity it,
nd then we should but meet more ba
onditions,-we should but find more a
measures pressed upon us,-we h.
hould learn, when toe late, that all cur tn
acrifces and all our humiliations had to
cen utterly in vain. ~
Mr.. STEVENS denies the southern In,
the right OF voting upon he Il
mendment, and in this be is consistent
ut the statement that Virginia, or any ,
Their southern state, would accept when th,
by others, that which she dared erl
ct endeavor 70 obtain for herself is en- "a
rely and absolutely false. Letters may m,
ave been sent to radical members Of fea
ongress asserting that Virginia and wi
-orth and South Carolina would agree Or
/, he amendment if adopted, without
leir action, by a sufficient number !
( states to secure its ratifca- mi
but those letters were writ 80
by such men as those who ~
alIed for territorial governments for SO
.ouisiana and South CarOliua-by men An
no are either unknown among the peo- aus
.e whom they profess to represent or KY
10 are so well known that their very pri
anes are infamous in the mouths Of ing
,,jr fellow-citzens. The southern states uoi
iii not adopt the amendment because
ley cannot DO so without the loss o. -
-erytbing that makes life dear-honor,
putation, principle and interest and
same determination which causes -
Iem 10 reject it now viii prevent them ire,
on looking to any eomPromise, OF for
desiring that others should pusil- y
nimously undertake that which they tns
I'VE resolved never 10 do themselves! ~
OLD THAB. g.
A rare old patriot, says the St. Louis dire
MON, is THAD. STEVENS. What to him s,
the old union but something 10 des- Of :
His whole life has been spent in n
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