Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-07
FOR THE. ADBRvIELE PRESS.
CoKEsBURY, Aug. i, 1868.

article, which please publish. It's sugges;
tions are, matters Of vital Importance to
Southern planters, and appear TO be en-
iirely feasible. Why should not associa
tions of planters be organized throughout
the Sonth, in every county. and as this
writer suggests, in every beat, for tho pur-
pose of posting themselves and the world
with accurate and positive Information as
10 the condition Of the crops Of cotton and
grain from seed time till harves, What
planter in AbbeviIle District did not lose
houay last year from the sudden decline in
cotton, caused by the publications from
fahkoedom and England, that the South
would made over 300, 900 bales OF cotton
Had we been organized as this writer sug-
gests, we would have known what were
the wants of the world and could have
properly estimated the value of those wants,
aud priced our c"tton accordingly. Such
an organization need but beginning, and
and why should it not begin in Abbevile
District.
Then, Loe, give Us planters stirring up;
call through your columns to meet some
day al the Court House for such a purpose;
embazen it, not in one corner, nor on
your fourth page, but on half your sheet,
as some Of yonr energetic merchants do
when they appeal to us planters thus
Don't Forget" we have "Just Opened
our New Spring Goods" in the "Cash
House" Of our " New Firm" &c. say
emb'azen on your first page in this mel-
camille style, that it behooves the planters
to organize, organize, organize, not po!i,-
cally but agricuiturally not that they
may control labor, but that they set n
valuo upoa The fruits Of their labor not
they may enslave others, but that they
may enrich themselves. Help the plau-
tors, for they help you. Call them togeth-
er, they will come. And let us try
this fall to put ball in motion that will
roll over the whole South before the lst
January, 90, and enable us by that time to
reap for this impoverished land harvest
Of gain that will cause smile 10 pass over
the wrnkled faces of our respondent plat
ters.
commend this article to our planters,
and call upon them to meet together at an
early day TO take incipicnt steps towards
consummatiug some of it's wise sugges:
tions. Willyou no, stir them up.
Yours, truly,
d. wyatt AIKEN.
| MEssRs EDIToRs.-Some month or two
ago, n number of the cotton Merchants, fac
tors aud brokers Of this city, mot to-go,h-
or, as has been their custom for many
years, to estimate the cotton crop Of last
year; aud with the lights before them,
they differed some three hundred and
fifty thousand bales, in their estimate of
crop now pretty we'll ascertaincd to be
less than lwo and a quarter million of
bales.
1t is somewhat remarkable that whilst
there is no commodity which exercises r
greater influence upon tho material inter-
ests Of the commercial world, than our
great Southern staple, there is yet 10 much
uncertainty during the entire period of
it's growt, and even, rs we have observed,
for months after it had. ceased to grow,
and tho greater part has been sent TO mar
ket, as 10 the probable yield OF the years
crop. Depending as it does SO much on
that most tickle Of all things, the weather;
liable to SO many casualties and catastro-
phies, from seed time to harvest; GER
tain amount Of doubt and uncertainty is
Incident to its culture. Sensitive, more
over, to the mere rumor Of political dis
turbancs, and subject consequently to
vast huctuat:sns in value, it assumes a
fearful control over our material interests
and at times invests itself with on irrssis-
tibls fascination, tempting to its danger
our embrace, not unfrequntly, only to de-
stroy. The question very naturally pre-.
sents itself, can it be the interest of agri-
culture or commeIce. that such frequent
and soften violent fluctuations in price.
should characterize the stapIea With its
acknowledged influence, does this not rise
! to the dignity Of great question of po.
litical economy, worthy the earnest con-
sideration Of our Chambers of Commerce
and Boards of Trade, our intelligent
merchants, and more Than all, our plain
.ers. 1t is Int the repetition OF thread
bare truism to say that capitol ia ever shy
Of hazardous enterprises; that its opera
tons are based upon we'll established laws
or at least upon a reasonable degree Of
cert#iuty ; that it appreciate .thea maxim {:
"Ubijus incertuna ibi jus nulIums." Ag-
ricuI,d'aI Investments, therefore will pre-.
sent little temptation TO foreign capital,
when involved IN 80 much of doubt and
and uncertainty. The interests of. COM
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