New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-13
1os We 4Oocs
655.O00 $4,000
215,OO0 $4,000
$4,000 $4,000
249,OO0 $4,000
25,0OO $1,000
$4,000 $4,000


ports June Is. .......... 225,OOO $4,000
On shipboard in Bombay
june IL. lH ,OOO l19,OOO
Total bales. Il ,665, 600 ], 49,, 600
Sufheient cotton has been planted to
yield $500, 600 bales if the season is only
On average one. But if the rust, the army
worm, the boil worm, and rude storms in
November can be escaped, there will be q
four-million crop. This will reduce the
price to fifteen cents and less. In the cot
ton belt the old fallacy of the omnipo-
tence of this staple hes come back and
possesses the minds Of men now az 1t did
In 1860. ~ do not raise hogs" says one,
"because it pays better to put ell my place
to cotton aud buy my pork" Others
abandon cotton even, and choose to depend
on Western flatboat. And 30 the curse
of monotony in production, Of industry
never diversified, Of the surface given up
to crops that enrich England and beggar
the feld-hand, Of Q rotation by which the
fatness Of the South passes over seas and
blooms in Lowell, and Manchester, and
Boston, and Liverpool, of method that
seems to bless while it curses, to aid the
laborer while 1t degrades him, the Off
spring Of an economical system sverse to
ours, and contrived by the hereditary enc.
mics of American growth and greatness
this false system il creeping back upon
the South, and an unusually large crop ut
low, figures would this fall rivet her letters
and complete her subsection.
Free labor bEinGS changes, but nosalter-
alton Of conditions which 60 beyond labor
systems and underlie ell questions of race
and suffrage. Though the first effects
would be disastrous it would in the end
prove Q godsend to the South If cotton
could, by the success in India and Egypt,
be pushed down to ten cents and held
there. It would uproot the irrational
greed Of the cotton planter. It would
force him to general agriculture. 1t would
burn cotton presses, but it would build
Southern hill sides and mills by her
water courses. It would lead the South
to build her own wagons and mould her
own plows. 1t would make cabbage
growing an important art, and diguify the
production of sweet potatoes. 1t would
develop thrift, frugality, forecast, con-
trivance in her inhabitants. In short,
while the plantation system and planta-
ton ideas would perish, man would rise
from the incubus that bends him to the
earth and advance
"Along the line of infinite desires
It is not Congress, nor Grant, nor the
fifteenth amendment, but cotton, that
keeps immigration out of the South. This
staple divides Southerners into two
classs, and only two-those who can not
lftord to stay out of the cotton field,
md those who can-those who live by
their own labor, and those who live by |
hat Of Others. Such distinction is in it's |
nature unjust and irrational Men will
not 60 from the region Of diversified indus |
by into such IN atmosphere. 1t chokes |
md disheartens. Hence, it is not without |
hope for the final result that we notice the |
magnitude of the cotton crop, and the |
likelihood Of an important decline in its |
price. Such decline would be drastic,
Unpleasant in its operation, but cleansing |
he blood of the patient and intusing fresh
Eigor into his constitution.