The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-26

sides being possessed of some valuable local
fertilizers peculiar to our section. We may
thus with half the amount OF land to the hand,
and constantly improving system OF manur-
ing. reach even with the short staple equally
lucrative results. In order to restore our
section we must surround ourselves with stock
of all kinds. This must be made specially,
and regular stock-mindors be employed. a
country which can sustain droyes OF cattle
through the winter without assistance from
man surely affords proper field for stock
raising. The idea that they cannot te Kept on
account of vagabond freedmen Is fallacious:
Make the business one of Importance and 1t
will take care of itself. Iknow several parties
on the coast who have stocks OF cattle
and who have kept them without mate
rial loss. In other cases there had been
severe loss. IF there is any kind of law at all,
even pretended law, 1t must be the means OF
controlling this matter where many par
lies become largely interested therein 1t is
certainly within contrel. AL these Things now
ridlculed as impossibiitles are plainly within
our reach as soon as we have little money
10 spare from annual expenses. As soon as
This occurs we have the matter in our own
hands. and it will be our own fault IL we make
not rapid progress in the right direction. AS
long as we have to borrow money for our an
nual expenses our specially must be cotton
or some other very marketable crop. When
ters. Without our own money to carly on our
onerations we work to the greatest dlsadvan-
taee in every way; economy, therefore, IS the
very cornerstone of all future success. Ii we
could borrow thousands this would be our
policy.
are pressed into use at rulnous ngure. we
como to town. and factors talk TO us often as
if we were children just awake, and did not see
further than the boundaries CT our plantation.
And because We cau't make crops in tub OF
water. we are told that man attempting to
plant s'sea islands" is fit for the asylum. One
factor SAYS, you must plant common cotton.
Another factor tells US that extra tne" ls the
thing. This is always 80 with people who have
to be helped by others, put IL Is none tne less
confusing and annoying.
Rv adverse seasons and incidental but not
NECESSARY circumstances connected with thom.
we have lost money in the sea Island business
STRAIGHT way conclusions are drawn, which,
when expressed in plain language, run thus {:
s'It will rain in continued torrents every year
hereafter. The gulf stream has receded hun
dred miles. The caterplllars Will come every
wear worse and worse"
forth but it seems unlikely that seasons that
have not occurred before for fifty years should
reneat themselves continually. We have not
snff;cient data to s.y that the cater pillars will
come every year. AS to The labor T question,
the upland regions to greater or less degree,
according acc to circumstances. Success will GUST
squattors BY taking up the lands; 1t will afford ord
regulate affairs by the sure momentum of
property values. It will challenge the protec;,
tion Of law; make law and mend it; seize and
hold il to its performance. Success means
power, and power means capacity st least to
provide for its own wants. Men are stunned stunned
Just now by the tremendous changes hurried
over civilization. Liberty looks foolish, with
black cap pulled over her eyes. But the South
is big country. with big interests. 1t de-
the long run have it, despite the folly of South.
ern politicians the grimaces and trickery OF
ali civilized and unclvllized scamps.
Things will climb up to the demands OF ne
cessity, and Southerner, Yankee and African,
each under his own vine, will find it common
sense in the end to take care OF the best inter
osts of society against all and any who n
tinue it's injury for their own personal agsran-
dizement. Surely, very surely.