Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-02-26

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forced 70 aso that Innovation q root
ing up old customs and preia.
dices and setting thosa who a.
locked IL ne sbackles Of 10 cold
regime" e concerns asrioaItuEs.
ashast % the anmissakable pFoIne-
nitiOns Of 9 wonderful change
We have forcibly alluded 10 this
fact before. bat there ere yet e
many who refuse 70 aet IN accord
ance with Che dictates Of their
senses, that L becomes indIspensa.
bic 70 again and again call them d
an awakening, and q practical Re.
ccgnitlon Of living Acts and Issues.
Under the slavery regime the poll.
cy Of agriculture was aggregation.
Aggregatioh OF lands and negroes
we're the Alpha and Omega OflshS
planter, and they constituted The
power Of the population. Out
side Of intellectual aspiration
the ownership Of thousands Of
acres Of land and hundreds Of no
groes were the grand objects Of
ambition, aud II was not seldom
The case that this ownership wal
simply reputed and that the plan
ter, in the supreme effort to attain
this much desired reputation, had
little care how unsubstantial wai
the foundation upon which the fab.
rio Of bis proprlOtorshlp was erect
ed so long as he could feel the
proud satisfaction of lord and mas.
ter. The war saved many Of such
q class from the utter humiliation
of an overthrow by annuIling al
one and the same time, their debts
aud the value session oI
their property. As we have said
the ante-war policy was that Of ag
gregatiOn. The abolition Of slavery
must result In the division Of o.
tates! It Is doing so already.
There will be laEge landed propri'
etOrs among US, as there are such
In northern and western states, but
the rule will be small farms aud
thorough culture. Several causes
will ensure this, among which
we may mention expense and q
scarcity Of labor.
We believe the new system Will
rebound most surely to the advan'
tage Of tie present proprietor, Il
will eventually DO the enrichment
Of the coming generation. Among
other gFatulatOry results Of The
policy OF dIsintegratiOn we will
mention the building upand pros.
perity Of our towns and cities a
distinguished from tho old com,
mercial monOpolies Ogtrpde,
Owing to this very system ther'
will DO more money produced
from labor than ever before, ant
this money viii chiefly DO expend.
edTight here where Il is pFod6ccd
The reason for this Is sufficiently
apparent. q .
To show the effect Of the chang
even In the short time which haI
elapsed, we can say that our land
which were at 80 low a discount
say three years ago, SO that excel
lent plantations uuincnmberet
were sold for three, five, seven ant
ten dollars per acre, now simlIaI
places are sold for twelve, fifteen
eighteen, aud even more thai
twenty dollars per acre.
These facts are encouraging bot
to the landed proprietor aud TO tn
merchant and inhabitants of towns
Let us then be courageous, an,
strive honestly and earnestly t
merit success.
STATE NEWS.
Wash McNeill, George Latham
and II. II. Collins, conVicts, escape
from the jail at Marion on the l6l
inst. They were hardened crimi
nails.
The Meridian Gazette Of the lit
says, Mrs. Mcmillan, wife of A
Mcmillan, living IN that place, wa
fatally burned by the explosion {
Kerosene lamp aud died on I'll
lRIh inalnnl.