The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-05-19

~" w % "uoh es nc likes gratultOuS-
~, but have also some paid to Garry
on the work when gratuitous donations
cease. Stimulate every one to do the
best in his line of business. Publish
in newspapers and circulars the results
and spread them over the land, and
send come to foreign agents, and show
to oil who desire homes that the South
offers creator Inducements than any
other country. Publish the different
products of tho land and the undeyel.
oPed resources of the country, and
give emigrants cordial invitation to
come and make their home among us.
People do not like to 20 thousands of
miles to be coldly received. Mention
the different crops that will pay to be
cultivated. When I say pay, d o not
mean as compared to cotton, but that
VIII actually pay for the culture. It
is calculated to make man oramped
and narrow minded to be confined to
one subject. Give diversity and lati.
ttde---;yariety of crops variety of
occupations-"variety is the spice of
lifo." Nature has given us tho varie-
ty Of land and products, but we abuse
nature in negleoting the variety of
products and endeavoring to compel
the variety of soils to produce those
things to which it is not adapted
One man might come only. provided
he could raise indigo, another, wine,
another syrup; another pinders; anoth-
or ramie and so forth, through long
list. Thousands would come to work
IN factories, provided they could live
as cheap as at the North and get lit
tie higher wages. That brings me to
the foundation of increasing the white
population. Cheap Hving. If the
labor we have GOULD be controlled 30 as
to produce twice rs much as is now
produced, the consumption would not
be increased, q surplus would be pro.
duoed and bring down the prices of
meat and bread, let cotton never cone
below whore 1t is. Bread and meat
cheap and money article dear, would
bring in settlers. Plenty of bread and
meat at the North for the farmer but
worry little money.
Then let every one put bis shoul
der to the wheel and lend his mite
whether it be land, money, time or
brains. All are needed. The differ
ent occupations and professions are
jealous of each other. If the buyers
are increased without correspond
ing increase in sellers, something
goes wrong. Let no ono think he can
cheat his neighbor. Throw aside all
suoh schemes and come boldly up to
tho work. One good honest white
Immigrant will be worth more to the
country than ton of guano. One
good white laborer would clear YOU
one hundred dollars, besides stimula.
ting your freedmen to work better,
which would put more money in your
pocket and give you more ease and
satisfaction. On the other hand one
ton Of guano would stimulate your
ground to produce 80 much that it
would injpre 1t, and then the cotton
would be 80 manipulated by the Yam
KEGS as to bring into their country ten
or fifty times as much money as was
paid out for the raw material-and
they would manage to get back all the
money they paid you for the raw ma
terial and what little you might have
from the sale of few bushels of corn
and chickens and eggs. Besides max
ing them feel important, and causing
them to look down upon us as being
OF little consequence. Old things have
passed away, and a new era has dawn.
ed upon us. Let US prove ourselves
equal to the situation. Let us take
the tide at its flow, and future genera
tions will have abundant cause to be
thankful for the freedom of tie ne.
gro. Respectfully,
Elk.