The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-26

sAuoS U9inB possessed OF some valuable local
iertiazers peculiar to orr section. We may
thus with half the amount Of land to the hand,
and constantly improving system of manur-
ing, reach even with Tho short staple equally
lucrative results. In order to restore our
section we must surrouns ourselves with stock
OF all kinds. This must be made o speciality,
and regular stOck-minders he employed. A
country which can aus ain drOves OF cattle
through the winter without assistance from
man surely affords. p'oper field for stock
raising. The idea that they cannot be kept on
account Of vagabond freedmen is fallacious.
Make the business onesof Importance and it
will take care OF itself. 1know several parties
on the coast who have stocks OF cattle
apd who have kept them without mate
rial loss. In other cases there had been
severe loss. II there is any kind OF law at all,
even pretended law, 1T must be the means of
controlling this matter where many par
ties become largely interested therein. It is
certainly within control. All these things now
rid1culed as mpossibilitiss are plainly within
our reach as soon as have o little money
10 spare from annual expenses. As soon as
this occurs we have thas matter in our own
hcnds, and it will be orr own fault f NC make
not rapid progress in the right direction. As
long as we have to borrow money for our an
nual expenses our specially must be cotton
or some other very marketable crop. When
we escape this necessity We are our own mas
ters. Without our own msfiey to carly on our
operations we work to theS greatest disadvan-
very cornerstone Of all future success. If we
could borrow thousands This would be our
policy.
We come to market in debt, and our crops
are pressed into use at o ruinous figure. We
come to town, and factors talk to us often as
if we were children just awake, and did not see
further than the boundaries of our plantation.
And because we can't make crops In q tub Of
water, we are told that man attempting to
plant "sea islands" is fit tor the asylum. One
factor says, you must plant common cotton.
Another factor tells us that 'sexLra fine" is the
thing. This is alwaysso with people who have
to be helped by others, but it is none the less
confusing and annoying.
BY adverse seasons and incidental but not
necessary circumstances connected with them
we have lost money in the sea island business.
Straight way conclusions are drawn, which.
when expressed in plain language, run thus
1T VIII rain in continued torrents every year
hereafter. The gulf stream has receded hun-
dred miles. The caterpinars will come every
year worse and worse."
We do not know what the year may bring
forth, but it seems unlikely that seasons that
have not occurred before for fifty years should
repeat themselves continually. We have not
suMcient data to say that the caterpillars will
success will solve it here just as it has done in
the upland regions to o greater or less degree,
according to circumstances. Success will oust
squatters by taking up the lands. It will stford
regulate affairs by the sure momentum of
property values. It will challenge the protec-
tion of law; make law and mend it; seize and
hold it to It's performance. Success means
power, and power means a capacity at least to
provide for it's own wants. Men are stunned
just now by the tremendous changes hurried
over civilization. Liberty looks foolish, with q
black cap pulled over her eyes But the South
is big country, with big interests. It de-
mands law and obedience to law. and will in
the long run have it, despite the folly Of South
ern politicians, the grimaces and trickery Of
all civilized and uncivilized acamps.
Things will climb up to the demands OF ne
cessity, and Soutberner, Yankee and African,
sense in the end to take care Of the best inter
ests Of society against all and any who con-
tinue it's injury for their own personal aggran-
dizement. Surely, very surrey