The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-13

anything, II must be In the acres over which
you walk. II you drain those acres Of the last
ton OF potash and phosphorus they contain,
you leave to those who come after you wide
waste OF broom-sedge and stunted pines-a
heritage OF briers, and gulliss, aud rotten
fences. No, gentlemen; you will be wiser and
more provident than that. You will see that
while there Ia some money In cotton aud to-
bacoo, there Is In l. little true wealth or power,
little OF that which makes pations great aud
keeps them TO. The South has never been
sufficiently devoted to the production of arti-
cles OF prime necessity. Mankind would bs
better off II frost or worms sholsd destroy
every tobacco plant that sprouts this spring.
Cotton is a very important textile; but nations
we're clad, and well clad, before Eli Whitney
was born. Agriculture means the culture OF
the feds, not skimming aud desolatiDg them.
EDjoyiDg the best climate and poughtng the
best soil on the continent, the SOuthrOu ate
imported bread, drank imported wine, gave
his hands imported pork, shod them with i'm
ported leather, aud buckled au imported sad
die on the back OF a horse that had travelled
q thousand miles southwsrd TO find pur
chaser. When such people went to war with
States that fed and clothed them, the result
was inevitable. julius Caesar with his tenth
legion could have delayed that exchange of
notes at Appomattox Court House, but he
could not have made IL impossible.
In profound peace, with a. strong, silent,
vigilant man at the wheel, the country is en-
teriDg upon decade of material prosperity
and development that will be- more amazing
than the magnitude and the obstinaoy of the
recent strife. What the South wants, above
all other things, is not Acknowledgement or
Acknowledgement, or mau in the Cabinet nor
even high price for good middling, but an
agricultural system that is true, just, and
| lasting. Her land has had no Sabbath; there
has been no restoration. The balance be-
tween the living and the dead products OF
farming was destroyed and must be re-
gained. No lands that are not often renewed
| by the mud of inundatiOns can survive such
| an exhaustive succession as the planter has
required OF his cotton and tobacco fields.
A lost fertility must be- Restored. That
| savsgery OF broom. sedge and brier-t -thickets
must be abolished. But the purchase of q
few Thousand tuDs of guano will not work the
desired change. Those phosphate stones on
| Ashley river alone will not do it. The South
| thinks che needs msnufsotures--and so che
does. But artisans aud operatives will not
| move there till good TODD and good cloth are
| less costly. These will not be more abundant
| till there are more good barns and we'll de-
signed farm-yaids; till those poor, wild COWS
are replaced with Durhams aud Hsretords
and Alderneys; till those razor-baok hogs are
| killed, and Suffolks and Chesters take their
place; till they have fstter chickens and more
of them; till potatoes aud cabhages and apples
| are cheaper. Cotton always was a weak king.
He was full OF pride and vanity and weak
ness. He urged bis subjects into an unequal
strife, and then showed no influence at courts
! to make alliance or secure open ports. He
gave the planters family pocket-money, q
handsome carriage, and a heritage of barren
fields. II ever king at all, he was King Stork.
The South of to day does not need cotton fac.
| toyiaa half sO much "a eh8 does mauura fac.
| tories. She thinks the Constitution as it was
furnishes pauacea for all woes; but 1t Is no,
half SO important to her just now as the Herd
| Book.