The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-08-19
farmers Department.
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From tie Southern Cu,tivator.
Mr, Dickson on immigration.
SPARTA, Ga, juno 10, 1869.

OPARTA, VA, JuHc 1V, IOOo'
Editors Southern Cul7iudtor: wish to
draw the attention of the cotton planters
of tho South to the subject of immgra.
ton 1t is one Of great interest, and if
successful, L think will prove destructive
to the cotton interest. do not wish my
views to prevail unless they are right. l
wish both, sides to be heard the other
side has been heard already, and we have
been taxed to promote this cause. The
State of Georgia is moving for our de-
struction.
The negro we have with US, and we
cannot get rid of him if we would. They
will not die out, as most Of our Northern
friends and many of our people think.
The next census will. show large in
crease. The only way to make it tolera-
BILE for them TO live amongst us, is to give
them employment. With full employment,
they will steal less, be more law-abiding,
and a less nuisance in every way. Do we
want more labor, and for what? The ag-
rieultural interest at the South is chiefly
valuable for its production of cotton, to-
bacco and rice. Can we mako moro
money by doubling the quantity of la Dor,
thar, I'VE can out Of what we now have ?
DO numbers increase the quantity of Ia
Dor pro rata, or will the dividends be
greater for all concerned? Can the first
H,il.ionoof people in Georgia, having the
first choice of lands to cultivate and the
balance for pasture, make more or less
than the second million, having the poor
est half to cultivate, and no waste land
for stock to grazc on? Is the second
million likely to be more skillful, indus
.rious, law-abiding and enterprising, &C.,
&c., think history teaches us that a
population, with a plenty of room and
land, are moro cheaply governed than a
dense population-can live better and can
have more labor to spare for improve
ments What country has built the same
amount of Railroads and Factories as the
United States? The United States hav.
ing plenty of lands to cultivate, by select
ing the best, can, with one-half of its Ia.
borers, make a plenty Of all the products
of the soil, whilst the other half can build
Railroads and machinery of all kinds, and
work them. The Cotton States, with its
present labor, can build more Railroads
erect more factories, develope more mines
carry education and refinement to high.
er point than if the population was in.
creased fourfold. With cotton at twenty
five cents per pound, you have money to
do whatever you wish collectively. In
1S4S and. 40, with 100000 to 100000
bales of cotton in Liverpool, cotton sold
in Augusta at from AZ to 81 cents. With
$4,000 to 100000 bales at present in
Liverpool cotton is selling in Augusta
from rs to 20 cents per pound. Why dc
you wish to make the change? Oul
Northern friends say, if we do not pro
duce cotton cheaper, we will lose the
trade. am willing to lose it, if it can
only be held by making cheap cotton. Il
they would take little more interest in
preventing the loss of our liberty: instead
of the loss of the cotton trade, it would
inure to the benefit Of both sections. Give
us our liberties and constitutional rights
with our best men to represent us in all
departments, and we can make as much
cotton as the world wants, at fair prices
if it be ten million of bales, without an
outside man or dollar. Good government
would do more to develope this country
ahan all the men and money in the world
Cotton planters, it is not to your inter
est to sell your land at morc nominal
price How can you invest your money
to any better advantage. Land must ad
vance in prico, In thirty years, without
single immigrant, Georgia will have q
population of two millions of peoplc-thc
sons and daughters of the present popu
lation. Be paticnc-wait for the natural
increase, and what may voluntarily come
Do not spend your money to hasten an
over-populated country. 1t will come
soon enough, and when it docs come, you
will have no outlet. Some arc willing to
cut their lands up in small lots, and give
every alternate lot to immigrants, think
ing it will more than double the price OF
the balance. What do you care what
your lands are worth, if you have none
to sell-besides, it would reduce the price
of cotton more than one-half, and the
land you would have left would not pay
per acre one-half of the dividends they
do now-reducing your profits three
fourths. You have q plenty of native
poor people to sell land 10, if you wish to
part with any
Do those who have no land, wish com
petitors in labor and in the land market
reducing your wages one-half or more
Do YOU wish great increase Of money