The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-06-30
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3. 10 diminish the export Of wheat
and thereby to reduce the price of the
whole crop.
3. TO protect tho foreign manufac.
turer.
i. TO cripple tho homo manufactu.
| er.
$. TO deprive the farmer of good
/ market for wheat, and to give him q
bad one for wool.
FINALLY, to increase the cost Of cloth
! ing, anl to diminish the power of the
farming population, who constitute tho
great mass Of consumers, to buy it.
We have taken wool and wheat as
our examples, the samo argument will
apply to all other commodities.
This truth is but family perceived
that there can be no export unless
there is an import, and neither can
exist unless there is profit to both
parties in tho trade. That nation
loses most by obstructing foreign
trade, which has within itself tho
greatest natural resources, and the
best educated and highest paid labor.
Natural resources arc power by
which men are enabled to gain largo
production with little labor; thorc-
fore cheapness of cost may Ge COM
bined with high wages to the laborcr.
Intelligent laborers will select their
o"l employmonts better than two
hundred and forty members of Con-
gress can do it for them.
We have natural resources beyond
any nation, the most intelligent labor
crs, and full employment for all our
capital; therefore we cannot afford to
follow some employmcnts which pau,
pers are barbarians can do so much
better than we can, such as The raising
of Capo wool and other similar yarie-
ties.
"To say that We cannot compete
with paupers and barbarians in such
production, is simply that we can and
are doing something else which is
much more profitable"
John S. Mosb7.
y correspondent of the Richmond
N|hW, writing of an immense conscr-
vativc meeting at Lccsburg, Va, re-
fers to Col. John S. Mosby, the great
partisan loader, as follows:
was gratided TO notice Colonel
John S. Mosby moving from group to
group on the court green and urging
the people to vote for Walker and tho
expurgated Constitution as the only
means of escaping the evils which
now threaten us. A gentleman re-
marked: "Why, Colonel, year ago
you talked differently"
Mosby--"Yes; I swore | wouldn't
register, but think differently, and
had rather be right than consistent. -
Then VIC had our own Judges our own
county officers, and no one of them
was required to take the iron-clad
oath.
Citizen-sYou think we ought to
vote for the expurgated Constitution
with negro suffrage and the county or
ganization clause"
hosby-"Ccrtainly negro suffrage
cannot possibly impose upon us
worse man than Wells, and by voting
down the Constitution, you vote to
disfranchise yourselves, and to keep
the State under tho rule of carpet
baggcrs."
CitiRen--FIIow is that :"
Mosby--"Why, the concurrent re-
solution by the two houses of Con-
gress last winter, prohibits anybody
from holding even the most trivial Of
fee who cannot swallow the iron clad
oath. This gives all the Offices to
carpet-baggers; and how can you get
them out of their clutches and have
the offices filed by capable and honest
citizens until tho State is reconstruct
cd ? and how can you reconstruct it
except by the adoption of the expur-
gated Constitution, which admit
deserves all the abuse it has received
For my own part, | cannot see any
sense in voting for Walker and against
the expurgated Constitution, because,
if you defeat the lattor, you keep
Wells and his party in office. A vote
against the amended Constitution is
vote for Wells"
Your Reporter-"Colonel, I am
pleased to see that the - newspa-
per has at last come out for Walker"
Mosby--"Yes, and he heads his ar
tiole, eve surrender Rather late to
be surrendering. For myself, | sur.
rendered four years ago, and thought
| did it in good faith, in April, '65,
Wells won his brevet by gallant scrvi.
ces in capturing me in August follow
ing, while was,paying avisit to somo
ladies of that city,"
Reporter--"It is rather difficult to
have to change from front to rear on
this Constitution"
Mosby-"Yes, | found no difficulty
in bringing my judgment to the con-
clusion that it was the true policy to
adopt the. course | now advise, but my
pride held out some time after my
judgment was convinced. 1t now
seems strange that any reasonable man
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