Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17
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"AbOut thirty.Rve thousand
Iowa bales of cotton, have gone
into the calico, long-cloth. and do
mestic factory business"
This means that we may soon
expect to hear the announcement
that "abOut thirty-Rve thousand
Mississippi COWS have gone into
the cheese factory busidess." "
Iowa, as we all know, with its al
luvial bottoms and sun burnt hills,
is not less admirably adapted to
the culture Of cotton, than Missis-
sippi, by the abundance and quail
ty Of its grass, and the tempered
coOlness of its climate, to the
raising Of mllch-cattle and the
making Of cheese.
That the dairy hereafter will take
the place Of the cotton.press in
Mississippi, and that this State so
unconscious of the true sources of
its future wealth will send cheese
to Limburg instead Of cotton to
Liverpool, there can be but little
doubt. That she is not already
redolent Of the oderiferous export,
is a striking illustration of the
withering and blighting effects of
slavery and the retarding influence
which the bad political principles
of a section fthe country, so high
ly favored by nature, have exer-
cised upon the industrial and pro.
ductive capacity of its people.
I'd Straw-which drifts the other
way.
"The city of Vicksburg was
founded in the year 1922 and has a
Negro population OF about five
thousand"
In the State of Mississippi this
valuable population-nOw put to
the highest use to which any State
can put its citizens, viz: that of
governing it-forms a considera.
BILE class, in fact, a majority Of the
people. Now in Massachusetts,
New York and other old States OF
the North, the white population
largely and alarmingly prepOn-
derates.
1--WE suggest to the candid and
imprejudiced TO consider" why
the African emigration so univer-
sally preferred the South. We
know that the unrehecting will an.
swer that it is an affair Of climate,
and adoption to the products Of
the soil and modes of labor. 1t is
confidently expected, however,
that this answer will be
confined to the prejudiced
intolcrant and bigoted JEFF. Davis
Democracy. For ii would also
account for the fact that European
cmigrants so generally seek the
North and North west, and would
forever silence the enunciation of
that legitimate inference and in
controvertible fact that it is the
political principles, infiltrating the
air and interpenetrating the soil Of
the Western wilderness that causes
the food of emigration from the
grain and grass growing countries
of Europe to set towards country
of similar climate and soil, instead
of overAowing, like our great river,
the cane brakes and cotton fields
of the lower Mississippi Valley.
3d straw:-which drifts both ways.
Massachusetts was admitted in
to the Union in 1888. For more
than three quarters Of a century
she has been wearing calicoes and
cotton shirts, and for a good part
of that period, has been manufac.
turing them for the Democrats and
negroes Of the South. She has
always been anti Democratic. She
has never raised in her own fields q
single pound of cotton. In fact,
she raises almost nothing. But do
not think that this want of pro-
ductiveDess has anything to do
with her political princi-
pies. Massachusetts, men are
her principal export. Her po-
litical principles are in fact the
source of her wealth, and enable
her to derive it sometimes in the
most unexpected and providential
manner from cotton States, whose
bad political principles are frOwn-