The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-08-04

try adapted to its successiul cul.
ture, where the malarial influences
existing there, It's alleged, proves
more fatal to the white man than
to other thicker skinned races. Be
this so, and are there not in Europe
overcrowed populations in much
more malarious regions than any
in the South, not excepting the
Mississippi, Arkansas and Red
River bottoms2 Witness the bogs
of Ireland for instance, to say moth.
ing of the mud dykes of Holland
and other innumerable localities.
But, sirs, we ourselves can raise
just as much cotton In the South
as | have any desire ever to see
raised in It again; and as our sta,
pie is of a quality absolutely ne.
cessary tor the manufacture of fab
rics indispensable to the comfort Of
the world, we can always produce
a supply, and with white labor, 1
repeat-if we but 60 to work
that will command from 200 to
$50 millions of money, in despite
of negro, Coolie ana all other in
dolent, slothful and idolatrous la
borers; Why, sirs, I have num-
ber of neighbors this year, old
North Carolina citizens, who hard
ly ever raised bale of cotton in
the;rslives until they came to Mis-.
sissippi, who will make from 500
to 1,500 dollars to the hand at
present prices, should their crops
turn out this year (and they prom
Use fair to do SOY as we'll as they
did last. Why. sirs, little Irish
man, Dan McC., made last year,
by his own labor, on 10 acres OF
ground, 104 bales of cotton, weigh
ing over 500 lbs. each. John L.
did about the same, and l could
name dozen others. The cotton
crop is rather late and backward
this year, but very promising at
present, and growing and bearing
so fast, that it seems almost incred.
ible to me even, an old South Ca.
rolina planter. My near neighbor
g., with mono but two sons, IA and
16 years Of age, will make, besides
q superabundant corn, wheat and
oat crop, at least $500 worth Of
cotton. w., another, with two
sons, 10 and Is, will make about
the same. p, with two, 16 and
20 years, near the same. ", with
one freedman, will make IA or Ii
heavy bales, equal to $4,000; and
could name even more promising
cases than this, but your readers
would regard them exaggerations
Send the poor white young men O
the country here, who are not only
willing, but determined to aoork
and l will guarantee each one O
them a clear profit of $500 pei
annum over and above all expen
ses, as long as cotton remains n
present prices-nay, at 20 or Q!
cents per pound, unless disaster
such as army or boil worm DESTROY
it. Do we want Chinese Coolies
No sir. Cannot we live withou
the negroa Shame on the mar
who says not. Our ancient father
had neither cotton, negro or Coolie
and yet they were rich enough t,
pave their streets with gold anC
inlay their doors and windows will
precious stones and pearls. Nor,
anon. J. A.
p. S.-Do not suppose L am op
posed to the introduction of tin
Coolie; on the contrary, / favor
on a small scale, to test their value
butI favor our own Young mon 90
ing TO work and producing all W
want, and more too, rather thai
seeking some easy place in store
the professions, the pulpit, or eveI
a horse stable, as some of them ar
base enough to do, rather thaI
work in the corn or cotton field
OF the country.