New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-24
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Rear with n few suggestions upon standing topic
Of debate among Southern cultvators
lam not Young rs you SEQ; yet cannot remember
n t,,ne when the South did not affirm and dcplorc an
excessive addiction of her people TO Cotton. That
eminent scholar and statesman, Hugh 3. Legare. al
luded to it as venerable grievance, thirty-odd
wears ago Before as well since, every one remon-
strated with every one against the faulty when
mpelled Southrons to plant 30 much Cotton OK,
horted all to retronch and reform, and then siid
away TO plant few more acres than ever beioio
For generations, it reiterated as an axoh 80 :;
Cotton culture depended on Slavery; ye' o ~
dead and we produced nearly One mliiion ,r;,b
Cotton in 1S70-more than in any forine. -? oor Of
the exception Of 1889 and 1850. iee AZ ;n,ono nc
grace 1871. we have the old cry from n'"'o"o ,,,,
e.. "plort Loo Cotton r-and presume WIN
~ IA o0,I4 Tho army-worm, the Doi!-WoIn' may
a;r,i,,;1 .Lo Cotton- crop; expostuaton. Judge.
- IL, no more striking Illustration Oh
wiz o. NV 80 tbe foolishness of preaching"
"l'' ~, ;oessont vet fruitless clanor against
growing so much Co1toh' -,
~ i'.Iass the remonstrants right, az remen-
.vto are ant to be. Be-, after two generations OF
:assont depreciation, the passion for cotton-plant
inc seems as intense and pervading as ever. Inc
owner of a thousand arabic acres after hearing al
4bati is TO be said against it, plants almost exclusively
Cotton The poorest negro, who owns or rents a
dozen acres puts in his field Of Cotton, and takes
his chance for bread Hc has endured less preaching
on the subject than his old master; but had no been
lectured from infancy on the madness of cotton
planting, he would have planted all the same.
And this for most obvious reason Cotton Is
Money and Money is Power. Cotton is of such
moderate bulk in proportion to its value that it
bears Transportation far better than Wheat or Corn
OF Fruit or Vegetables 1t endures tTopic suns and
arctic frosts without injury; it neither molds. nor
rots nor rusts nor putroiies de who has Cotton 10
sell does not quake at the footsteps of the taxgat-
ereT, and can generally look the Sheri SQUARE III 'ho
face. -
INFLUENCE OF DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRY.
Admitting that the South has grown, and Still
Grows. TOO much Cotton-land Judge that Three
Millions of Bales grown in 1870 would have Noted
her "a large SUM as the Four Millions she actually
did grow)-I see no way to counterfeit this tendency
but by introducing new branches ofindustry WHEREOF
| the product will also command money. In VAN DO
| you exhOrt the average planter to grow more Corn
| and make more Pork he is often in debt ana
| chooses to produce what will surely sell Tor the
money he sorely needs He is sure Cotton will do
this he is not so sure to Corn or Pork But plant
one hundred Cotton and as many Wooden factories
on the soil of your State, making steady cash mar
ket here for Wool and Meat for Grain and Vegeta-
bles. as we'll as Cotton, and now your Agriculture
will naturally and certainly divide its forces and
Diversity its products Farmers will grow all these,
| if they know that a sure cash market is at hand.
A denser population greater variety and range OF
empoyments, these are pressing wants OF the entlre
South. Every wheel set to turning on Southern
waterfall every mandatory of Edge-Tools or
Farm Indictments started in any of your cities OF
villages is certain protably to divert labor from
your CottOn-ields, as naked preaching never will.
There is hardly au acre of Southern land which
would not be doubled in value if Southern farms
were mainly cultivated with SOuthem-made imple-
ments Southern backs clothed in Soutbern-woven
fabrics and Southern dwellings filled with South
ern-made furniture and wares. And, now that
Slavery has gone out, it is high time that the Useful
Arts were steadily and rapidly coming in.
Am intoxicating what would injure my own sec
toni Not at all. The more you do for yourselves,
the more YOU will require from abroad. The State of
Arkansas has more inhabitants than the City of Bos-
ton; yet the latter, while the focus of an immense
interchange and large consumption of domestic pro-
ducts buys and consumes far more of the produc-
tions of foreign lands. Our purchases are limited
not by our needs, but by our means. A thousand
times it has been predicted that we should destroy
our foreign commerce by protecting Home Industry,
and thousand times ths has been proved fallacy
by increased imports under high duties If Texas
NUN, in the purchase of homemade wares and fab
RIGS, she would buy far more from abroad than she
now does If she had dozen ax-factores in full
operation she might import fewer axes than now, but
her imports Of Steel Iron, and hundred other arti-
cles, would be sweled beyond computation.
hold the naturalization of new and the extension
of existing Manufactures among the most urgent
wants Of this State, of nearly every young COM
munity Hence hold-not that you ought to pay
a high price for Door article because it is home
tmade-not that you should forego the grathcation
of legitimate want because the article it contem-
plates is not of Texas growth or fabrication-bnt
that each of you should give an intelligent prefer
ence other things being equal, to whatever Is made
on your own soil-should buy your harness, OF sad
die. or pail or broom, OF pillow, or axe, of your
neighbor's make in preference to one brought from
abroad-should take and pay for some first-rate
Texas journal before looking abroad for better.
Having thus done your duty by the community
whereof you are part if you able and willing to
take second journal, might possibly aid you In
finding good ore
FARMING RENDERED ATTRACTIVE.
is Agriculture O repulsive pursuit. That what
has been called Farming has repealed many OF the
youth of our day. perceive and glory in the fact.
An American boy, who has received a fair common
school education and has active, inquiring mind,
does not willingly consent merely to drive oxen and
hold plow forever. He will do these with aiacrlty,
if they come in his way he will not accept them as
the be-al and the end-all of his He will not
sit down in a rude sloyenly naked home, devoid Of
flowers. and trees and books, and periodicals. and
intelligent inspiring, refining conversation, and
there plod through life of drudgeTy as hopeless and
cherries as any mules. He has needs, and hopes
and aspirations, which this life does not and ought
not to satisfy This might have served his progeni