The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-03-24
The Seed Time and Planting
Of Crops.

! Ihe writer OF tnlS cOlnNfunlca-
ton, has presumed to warn plan
ters about negleeting the culture
of corn and other grains, yes
every thing like food and provis-
ion, for domestic use. A wise
course ought to dictate that cot
ton production should be a secon-
Diary consideration with the far
! mer, who desires to see the South
rise once more to prosperity, and
permanent Importance.
In the history of all political
organizations, their rule and sway
must terminate sooner or later,
! and reasonable deduction leaves
us to hope, that the oppression
and persecution, and mad follies
of Radicalism, which means Puri-
tan control Of the country, is to
close some day recent develop
ments, we think, point to the ap-
pearance Of gangrene on the body
polite.
The industrial avocations of
twelve millions of people in the
Southern States have been over
turned, and large portion of its
useful labor been destroyed by
frenzied legislation in Congress
A change of front has therefore
become necessity, and will have
to be adopted, if an element of
labor is to supersede that which
is dwindling, and must die out.
Much has been written and said
relative to emigrants being in
duced to come to the Cotton
States. The climate and appre-
hension of a want of healthfulness
is not the difficulty, for we main
tain that experience has shown as
great a degree of health and Ion
gevity to foreigners in the South
as is found in the more Northern
States but all emigrants natural
ly enquire what they will find to
eat in Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina. lfthe answer is
truthfully given, that the corn,
-four, pork and bacon is brought
from the West, many thousand
miles off, he must be a bold man
who will venture his family to
come on the promise of being fed
on cotton. Cotton seed coffee
we have drank for a considerable
time. During the late war, it
was very good, but we confess a
preference for Rio or Java.
The once fertile and prolific cot
ton lands on the scaboard have
deteriorated vastly in value, and
have become impoverished by an
ill-advised system Of culture, ap-
parently without forethought or
Judgment, vain boasters of superb
or industry to Southerners; and
even our planters rushed into cot
ton cultivation mostly on bor-
rowed money, and at any rate Of
interest charged. Large crops of
cotton and fortune in one or
two years was the speculative
stimulant. Corn, peas, potatoes
and such things, to support man
and beast, were too insignificant
to be worked, when IS cents to
81 per pound could be realized on
a big crop Of cotton; but, alas !
adverse causes have left them
without cotton, corn, or any thing
else, and many have lost their
lands; and, at this time, a state of
poverty, if not destitution, exists
among whites and blacks truly
lamentable, with credit no where.
Many are compelled, this season,
to contract with dissolute and
idle freedmen to work two days
weekly, giving as a compensation
land to cultivate and lodgings.
Planters elsewhere, take varnlng!
There is no fiction in the picture
presented. Every practical far
mer in this country is aware of
the power he can hold over man
and animals with we'll filled corn
cribs: food tames as we'll as har-
monies. and will command labor
invariably, and drive the plough
and harrow to advantage. With
plenty of corn, potatoes, &C., the
cotton you may make will not be
forced on dropping market, and
sold for less than it's value.
In the New Orleans Evening
Picayune, Of the 4th ultimo, there
is an admirable article under the
caption of "Plant Corn," and reit-
crates the advice given by Gen.
eral Jackson to his soldiers when
disbanding the volunteers, after
one of his battles, telling them to
go home and "Plant Corn
When time permits I will en-
deavor to show that the South
will have to embark extensively
in manufacturing pursuits, and a
general diversifcation of labor.
Puritan presumption, and their
teachers, are successfully cultiva-
ting idlers, thieves, and crime in
every form, among Africa's race.
The retrogression of this species
of labor is self evident.
L. N: ".
Morr;aoa n1okoe man md woman