The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-11-21
what shall we Dot

The political excitement of 1868, is
over, and let it affect US as it may, the
result of the election is irrevocable and
must be accepted for the next four years.
All our regrets will not alter the facts /;
and we had as well yield the field for the
present to the Sconquerors, and direct our
energy aud talent toward developing and
prospecting the country. War and poll
tics, with their manifold calamities, has
yet left us land as rich as Sae world pro-
duces, and health and strong arms to
work them. The lands Of Fulton and
adjoining counties will compare favorably
with the lands of any district of country,
and it is to develope them, to bring them
into market, that we should work.
Why do our lands not sell for as much
asaands in np.rser ISentucky ard-sdid-
..'ss-:s;-s s-.rflere men can afford
to pay from 500 to $500 an acre, and
make money by appropriating it to agri-
cultural purposes In this section good
land is dull at from s25 to $50, and in
many respects our soil is superior to
theirs.
Demand, in this, as in IL other arti.
cles. governs. Our vacant lands need TO
be cleared, improved and cultivated To
do this we need people, people who
will use the axe, the pillow, the loom, and
the anvil. We are convenient and &C
cessible to the best markets of the world
. and if we can bring out the rich re
sources of our land,Awe are rich. Work
ing men mus be encouraged to come
and live amongst us-men who can oper
land, raise corn, tobacco, potatoes, beans
cabbage, turnips, onions, and other pro
ducts, ready for the demand at the mar
icts to which we are accessible. When
We have done this our land will command
from 500 to $500 per acre. This can
be effected ina few years, and It is bound
to be effected in time To facilitate this
end we need to encourage schools, col
leges, churches of all denominations,
public roads, and a good, liberal public
spirit generally. Our people can inaugu-
rate a new era of fortune to themselves,
if they will 1t is people we want
working people-and they will dig capt
tai from our rich lands.
Did it ever occur to you, says Com
,nodore Maury, when an emigrant comes
into the country, to calculate how much
he adds to the national wealth, not by
the money which he brings, but by the
labor which he is able to perform ? For
that labor you will pay him. at the least
one hundred dollars year He, there
fore, represents an industrial capital O
which one hundred dollars year is the
interest, precisely in the same way, that
steam engine, By the work which it i.
capable of performing, represents an in
dustrial capital The labor, therefore
of white man represents quite as much
industrial capital as the labor Of a Negro
did before the war, which for an able.
bodied man varied from twelve to ffteer
hundred dollars. Taking old aud young
male aud female, let US suppose that eacl
emigrant represents an industrial capita
Of four hundred dollars. And then ",
must weigh these eleven millions of ex
cess of Northern population as the mum
Der of emigrants, which have come int
country since 1890 and settled at tn
North rather than at the South. Multipl
that by four hundred and you have up
wards Of four thousand millions of dol
lars, which the North has acquired, nc
from any superior energy of her people
but merely by the influx Of labOrers on
foreigners abroad.