The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-17

laroe one. The truth is, if the South will raise
| food in abundance for oil her wants, she cannot
| exceed three million bales. The labor lS not
here. Tho present cotton producers are gen.
| eralIy trained hands, When these pass away,
| their success ors will be less numerous and still
| less reliable Skill and improved machinery
alo Q can gather the crop. Hence the conclu-
sion that with an abundance OF f)od the South
cannot possibly raise cotton enough to put the
price under twenty cents for some years.
If, in addition to all this, she will also enter
largely INTO manufacturing all the shirting,
sheeting, &C., she needs, she will save an inn.
mense profit now pal out to New England on
these fabrics. II 1860 the Southern st ties
spun one-thrd OF all the cotton yarns used in
the whole Union, but wove only one twentieth
of all the cloth. Why may we not produce the
cloth as largey as the yarn2 There can be no
doubt as to the profits.
do not regard it as possible, even were it
desirable. to increase our negro population.
That race has never 80 rapidly multiplied ally
where, and never been found so civilized and
Christianized as under the influence Of constant
contact with the whites of tho Southern States.
The guardianship or the latter having been
withdrawn, the former will rapidly lapse into
seml-barbarsm and gradually disappear. No
two distinct nations, even Of the same race, ever
lived peaceablv together as equals, under the
same government. Such an instance is found no.
where in all history. IT this be 80 of nations
of different races? 1t has been aptly said that
the Saxon race would always exterminate those
whom they could not subjugate; and the fate
Of the American Inlan illustrates it, The ne
gro race is doomed. Its ultimate fate is but o
question OF time. Is it desirable to increase
such population? Would we gain anything
but mere numbers, whose moral and intelleo-
tual degradation would be but food for corrupt
politicians? Is it not vastly better for Us TO
populate our waste lands with class Of whites
who will have some pride Of race and some
regard for their political rights and duties /?
1t the South is to be peopled with millions
OJr n Cf
Heaven let it be with men Of our own color
and race.
Though grossly outraged, the South is not
yet ruined for it is difficult job to ruin
country so blessed in climate and soil, and
having such population as ours has been in
all the changes Of the past eighty. years. The
sons of the men who honored Washington:
Calhoun. as their models for patriots and
statesmen, cannot long be- under the rule of
such adventurers and charlatans as now curse
dawning. During the past thirty years the
South has never beenso little in debt as she is
to-day and, with political kindness. she will
soon be on her feet again. During the past
in Mississippi on horseback, and q constant
and free intercourse with the farmers assures
me that there has not been so much money in
the State for many years. Rich planters used
to belong to commission merchants of New
Orleans. This has mostly ended. Economy
is the order Of the day, and very one is ad-
dressing himself to it's necessities.
With the money Of the past crop they are
buying mules and farming implements, and
are planting about as much land in corn as in
cotton, thus insuring an abundance of food.
The proceeds Of the cotton crop OF this year
ten years the South will be much the wealth..
est portion Of the Union. But time, in it's
steady evolutions, will soon come to her relief
in another way. Look at the s1bjoined tables.
They are worth studying, for they clearly indi-
where 0f
power. With the ability to raise an abund-
ance OF food, and keep cotton above twenty
cents per pound, we may look upon the future
with high hope.
Below contrast the population and wealth
OF the whole Union with the population and
wealth Of the States Of the Mississippi Valley.
These States are Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa. Kansas. Nebraska.
Missouri, Kentucky. Tennessee, Arkansas, Ala
bama, Mississippi and louisiana:
Population OF the United States 81. 500, 600
Population Of The Valley States. 100000
Wealth OF the United States SIC 00O, 1000
Weaith OF the valley States. ........e 500. 900 900
Here it is seen that ten years ago the fifteen
States named above had nearly half the popu-
lation and wealth Of the whole Unio1; although
three e-fourihs of them were wilderness less
fen ago Gan doubt
ward2 But let us looL at it in another and
still more suggestive light.
Inc ten NEST prosperous and progressive
Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Contrast them
with the four most prosperous and progressive
States OF the Atlantic seaboard From 1850 to
1860 the increase Of the former, in population,
was sixty-nlne per cent, that Of the latter but
thirty-two. In the former The increase in
" wealth was 800 per cent. in the latter but 40.
selected, instead Of four, the difference would
have been still! greater, and, in order to pre-
sent the question in the best light for them,
but four States were selected, they the most
dourishing. IF this be true of the period be-
tween 1850 and 1860, what must be the increase
Of the Valley States since then? The growth
since 1860 has been mores marvellous than
next year, and we shall then find the spell
OF New England broken and her power for ]
mischief gone. In addition to all this, Mary
land. Virginia, the two Carolinas, Florida and
Texas, which are not Valley States, will unite
their destinies with these, for, as they are all
essentially agricultural, their interests are
mutual. They will doubtless hold two-thirds
OF the votes In Congress and control the des-
TIMES Of the Union. The elections in the
Northwest last fall, as compared with those Of
Two years before, prove that the antagonism Of
OF the people towards the South is on the wape
mere; and In few more years we NAV exclairn
NOV is the winter OF our discomfort made sum-
mer:" You will say this is hopeful picture.
Well. am hopeful man. Better thatthan to
sons OF bitterness and oppression; but it ls
dlHicult tQ believe that this country can long
pc ruled by any party whose pathway to power
is strewn with the wrecked rights and liberties
of individuals and States.
IT. TREzEvANr.
THE CORAE REENg EN