The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1869-01-21
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Cotton's Kingship.

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\ new and strong impulse, says the
Louisville Courier-JOurnal, has been Civ
en- to the business of the South By the
large crops of cotton, sugar, corn, &C., of
the last season, and the high prices which
these productions command in the mar
kets of the country. The favorable
change is deeply and extensively felt by
all the industrial interests of the South
Multitudes in the East and West, it is
said, are expressing u strong desire to en-
igrate to the South and engage in the
raising Of cotton and will DO so as soon as
they shall have full assurance that affairs
in the South are in permanently settled
condition.
, We all know that during the late war
called the War Of the Rebellion, Great
Britain, cut OF from her supplies Of cot
ton from the Southern States, made Wig
orous and persevering efforts upon large
scale to raise cotton in the East Indies,
hoping that an article might be obtained,
which, by a Modification of machinery and
other means, would subserve all the pur-
poses of the cotton ofahe South. The
British papers boasted much of the success
Of this great and expensive enterprise,
and the British people generally aud the
people Of this country, North and South,
were under the impression that the boast
ed success was an actual success. There
was deep and widespread conviction
upon both continents that, even if the
South, restored to peace, should raise as
much and as excellent cotton as she ever
raised, she would find no sale in Europe
for it. But the grand East India expert
ment has failed. 1t has fallen, abandon
ed, to the ground. The British manuIac-
turers confess at last, though with grief
and modification, that no portion Of all
tho earth can furnish such cotton for their
use as the Southern States of our Union.
Southern cotton, therefore, is destined to
resume its old supremacy. It's kinghood
will be re-established.
The war very nearly ruined the South.
Mal-goyernment seemed to complete the
ruin. We feared that the ruin was for
all time. But our Southern friends, even
under all the disadvantages and oppres
sions that weigh heavily upon their Shout
ders, are already emerging from the tide
of ruin, dashing tue waves aside "wi;h
Iusty arms and hearts of controversy"
They are hopeful. They behold above
them some clouds, but much Of the blue
heaven aud its stars. They prosper cz-
cept where the negroes are loosel against
them like war-dogs; and the shocking
negro outrages cannot last long, no matter
how necessary the Radicals may think them
to the attainment OF their ends. Radical
ism in the South has no other fate than to
subside, to collapse, to shrink up, to be
decomposed into the foul vapors and gas
es out of which it was made. Multitudes
of the better portion of the population of
the East and West will 60 South; 60
not to rule and Cypress and dcspoil, but
to engage honestly and in good faith in
the cultivation Of the richest land thai
spreads out its flowers and its verduro be-
meath the eye of the sun.
The war was a dreadful evil to the
South, but it is beneGcent provision of
God that most evils have their compensa-
tons.
Martial T ,0TT