Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-23

as and Mississippi, by legislation in Congress. j
the electoral votes of these States are not counted
then there will be in the electoral college 294 votes
and l48 will be all that will be necessary to elect
The Democracy can then lose Ofio and still secure
majority Of the Electoral College, without count
ing any from the South, or by carrying Ohio they
can lose Missouri, Wisconsin and Kansas, and still
elect their ticket without receiving vote from the
South. There is, therefore, every reason for en-.
couragement to the Democracy, and the election ol
Seymour and Blair may be put down as a certainty.
On the other hand the Tribune, which is the
leading Radical paper in New York, says:
1.-The only States that we consider morally Ger.
tain to vote for Seymour and Blair are Kentucky,
Maryland and Delaware; and even Delaware migh'
be carried for Grant if his friends were as active
and Jealous as they should be- Kentucky will give
the Republican ticket over sixty thousand votes
but, as her rebels all vote, while every colored
man including even those who fought to put down
the rebellion-s disfianchised we do not expect tc
carry her. Were either the rebels disfranchiseo
or the blacks enfranchised, she would vote fol
Grant and so with Maryland.
We shall not carry all the remaining States but
we shall zealously contest them all, and hope tc
carry least threeourthso of their Electoral Votes
A good many of them are beyond doubt Yer.
mont will give Grant three to one for Seymour
Massachusetts at least two to one; Tennessee al
least as much and we shall be disappointed. i
Maine, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Kansas and Michigan, do not each give Grant
more than 10000 majority
ssDiversifed Products"
Previous to the war, the assertion was fire.
quently made that "Cotton is King!" This idea
was soon exploded, and it was recognized imme
l.ok =, a.. A.. &c hot
corn and wheat shared the honors. In the recent
message of Governor Scott to the Legislature o.
South Carolina, a paragraph is devoted to the sub
ject of agriculture, and it contains so much of in
terest to our farmers, and shows so clearly thai
there are other means Of accumulating money be-
sides raising cotton, that we print the paragraph
entire, and commend it to consideration:
''Thc concentration Of labor and capital upon
one product, and that too extremely liable to the
varying hazards of the seasons and the worm, has
retarded the agricultural prosperity Of South Car
olina, and of the entire South. The true safety Of
the farmer lies in the cultivation of several pro-
ducts so that although the season may be unpro
pitious for one, he may preserve the other. he
should not initiate the unWise merchant, who EN-
barks his all, though uninsured, in single ship
The impoicy of concentrating so large portion o1
labor upon cotton, instead of dividing it among
mixed crops of corn, wheat, potatoes, &C., and
the products of the dairy is best illustrated by the
following facts drawn from the census Of 1860, apo
the report of the United States Commissioner oi
Agriculture for 1866. The cotton cropof Georgia
the Empire State of the South, in 1860 was 70l,'
$40 bales, yielding little more than thirty millions
1880, 900, ,OOU) Of dollars; while the butter of New
York in 1865, one Of several products OF the dairy
was estimated at sixty Millions $50, ,OO0, ,OOo) o.
dollars. Yet the census gives to New York but
470, 9l4 farmers and farm aborers, and to Georgia
including white farmers and farm laborers, and
only the males of the slaves, 3l6,4 persons en-
gagged in agriculture. Should the female slaves be
included, Georgia would have actually had lar
ger number of farm laborers thanthe State Of New
York. Besides the other dairy products, milk anC
cheese, and the smaller products of the farm, the
principal crops make in value an astounding ag
gregate. Thus in 1864, the corn crop Of New
York was estimated at $4,000, 900, the wheat a
S25, ,OOO OOO, the oats at $50, 900, potatoes al
$4,000 900, and hay at S90,000,0 900. Including
the minor cereals, the products of orchards and
gardens, the production of beef and mutton from
pasturage, and great variety of miscellaneous
products, the currency value of the agricultural
productions of this one State, in that year, was
far greater than the money returns Of any cotton
crop ever produced in this country and the gold
value of such products would be greater than the
gold value of half the cotton crop Of 1860, the
largest ever made in the United States The
grand results are not due to any superiority Of sol
or climate above our own, but properly directed
and diversified system of labor and to superior ag'
ricultural implements and farm economy, The
aggregate product of varied agricultural labors
must always exceed in value the yield Of any one
eton nle hownvpr vast and we'll OrraDiZed NAV be
the system of labor applied to ii, for marked sue.
cess in the production of that one, will lessen its
price BY nm undue increase of the supply over the