The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-23
Cotton-A wora to Planters.

To the Editor Of 0te DutlJ Neeos:
The writer is no scrDe-would that ho had the
power of JUN1Us pen to wield against those heart
less enemies Of fthe land !ovo," tho inveterate
cotton planters. God knows that most Of our peo-
plo have worshippcd cotton for years, and that VIC
felt that cotton could fight battles without His
assistance. What was the result2 He has seen fit
to scourge us terribly, and yet people, though
the avenging hand Of tho Almighty has hardly
boon lifted from them are already hastening back
to their idol-cotton. Thousands Of our farmers
arc counting: how many hands they can got TO
plant cotton, how many dollars will that cotton
bring, and how many acres Of land they can plant
next year in cotton. Their slaughtered sons are
forgotten; their outraged wives, daughters and
sisters are forgotten; they ride over the ashes Of
Cotton, not remembering that the very chains
that now bind our country were forged by cotton
weh nP Se
time, rivetted our shackles-for if We had had to
contend only with the Middle and Eastern States
war. We made cotton to buy Yankee tras o
buy Western corn, meat and mules, heedlt "
destroying our homesteads by most barba-- ls
system Of agriculture; and while all around us who
haye been buying our cotton are comparatively
rich, and their lands improving in quality and
price, our cotton folds are hideous and barren
wastes-nonurnents off, peoples folly,
For raising everything calculated to add to tho
comfort and luxury Of q people, We arc satisfied
tI1et LQe SCaCeS OF NCrLn South Carolina
and Georgia viii compare favorably with any part
of the world and in point Of health and salubrity,
we have no hes:ts::c2 Il saying that it 1iequaii-
The country on the seaboard from Georgetown, S.
c., to the st. Johns River Florida, we feel satise
N time Will be justly deemed the garden spot of
the states SorsS en and
South Carolina and Georgia, than any calamity tbat
could, in the ordinary course of events, have be-
fallen them. Cotton planting was the cause Of
many valuable plantations in this State being de-
populated Of it's negro labor to supply the voraci-
are to be found in the wilderness from here to Sa-
yannah, along on tho main j. land and ask candidly
try is sckly; BY others, the rich cotton fields OF
the West could pay higher price for the labor
ba o % er Se haas s9
that when people have taken the trouble to inform
themselves Of the requirements of tho climate,
world than can be found along our aeaboard, and
that people live as long, and raise as large families
heEe, re- as they do anywhere in the world.
,n %heshsr the tsagng g up the fields Of the Vest
gradually been peoplcd up by the surplus population
OF the South, in growing cotton (Which cotton on
we leave to the intelligent and candid to answer.
These Few Lines have been written only to Try
and get you to lend your assistance, as well as to
orally to turn from cotton and 20 after such things
as Will make us independent Of the North, aud
unless we make more provisions our laboring popu-
lat1on will be enticed OFF II some one os our able
and scientific men would write q description Of the
seaboard Of South Carolina, giving description of
It's avaab1ity for growing grasses. cereals, fruit,
spectable Foreigners, who are desiruus Of making
Their homes among US. Information of reliable
and scientific nature as well description of
the climate and manner of life among our people,
would DO more to promote emigIa.ion here than
anything else POCOTAIIGO. N