The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-08

and tobacco, there is little trade,
wealth or power, little ofthat which
makes nations great and keeps
them so. The South has never
been sufficiently devoted to arti
cles prime necessity. Mankind
would be better off. if frost or
| worms should destroy every to-
bacco plant that sprouts this
sdring. Cotton is very impor
rant textile; but nations were clad,
and well, before Eli WhitneW was
born. Agriculture means the
culture OF fields, not skimming
and desolating them. Enjoying
the best climate and plowing the
best soil on the continent, the
Southerner drank imported Wine,
gave his hands imported pork,
shod them with imported leather,
and buckled an imported saddle
on the back Of a horse that had
Travelled a thousand miles south
ward to find a purchaser. When
such a people went to war
with States that fed and clothed
them the result was inevitable.
julius Caesar with his tenth legion
could have delayed that exchange
of notes at Appomattox Court
House, but he could not have
made it impossible.
In profound peace, with strong,
silent man at the wheel, the coun-
try is entering upon Il decade Of
material prosperity and develop
ment that will be more amazing
than the magnitude and obstina-
cy of the recent strife. What th0
South wants above all other
| things, is not disfranchisement or
Ienfranchisement, or a man in the
/ Cabinet, nor even a high price for
"good lniddling," bat an .Agricul-
/ tural system that is true, just and
lasting. Her land has had no
Sabbath; there has been no resto-
ration. The balance bAe#een tie
living and the dead hfodicts of
farming was destroyed, and must
be regained. No lands that are
not often renewed bX.Ehe mud OF
inundations can srh.xiEe such an
exhaustive succession as the plan
ter has required for his cotton or
tobacco field. ~ a..l' III Hill 4.
Alost fertility }lfust be restored.
That sayagery Of ibroom-sed dge aud
bTier thicket must be abolished.
The purchase Of a few thousand
tons of guano Will not work, the
desired change. Those phosphat-
ic stones on Ashley river alone
will not do it. The South thinks
she needs manufactures-and 50
she does But artisans and ope-
ratives will. not move there till
good food and good clothes are
less costly. These viii not be
more abundant till there are more
good barns and well designed
farmyards; till these poor wild
COWS are replaced With Durhams,
and Herefords and Alderneys; and
those razor backed hogs are killed,
aud Suffolks and Chesters take
their place; till they have fatter
chickens and more of them; till
/ potatoes and cabbage are cheaper.
Cotton always was Il weak king,
He was full Of pride, vanity, and
weakness. He urged his subjects
into an unequal strife, and showed
no influence at courts to make al
| lance or secure open ports. He
gave the planters family pocket
money, a handsome carriage, and
a heritage Of barren fields. If
ever king at all he was King iStork,
The South to-day does net need
cotton factories half 50 much as
manure factories, She thinks the
constitution as it was, furnishes
q panacea for all woes; but. it is
not half so important to her just
now as the Herd Book. go -3-.4 -
| A young lady, on taking a
seat, after standing with her
back to the fire, was noticed to
suddenly jump up and utter a
loud scream, The brass on her
/ double-DupleiX elliptic became