Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-05
COTTON AND CRIME.
HsW to Stanoh lhs FLOW Of Blood aHd How
to Close Senator Esrtoa's Lips.

The aggregate OF foreign exports from
the Southern States last year exceeded
/ that from all the other States. The sum
total Of our exports was $215,0-0000. OF
this sum the cotton crop produced $3.50
O00 600. 1t was grown on 300, 900 acres Of
tas 100000 600 in the South adapted to
cotton production, excluding Kentucky,
Missouri and Virginia. Thus, great as
WAS the crop, and rich as the South may
be, iE is palpaOle that only one fiftieth of
the area adapted to the growth Of cGttOn
has been HtiliZed. And thus it seems
almost impossible to eXaggerate the fu-
tuns wealth ana growth of these States.
All that t5 required is the develOpm mt OF
the cOuntry's resources by the perfection
of railway systems, and the attraction Of
immigrants by obedience to law and the
maintenance of ordsr.
HOW FOREIGNERS LOOK UPON Us.
The frightful stories Of violence which
the telegraph distributes and newspapers
here must publish sre not only harmful
to the last degree when recited truthfUlly,
but as grouped together and invested
with evsTY feature Of hideOusness by
Northern Radical wspapers, lead man
kind to believe that this fruitful laud is
the abode of unmiXed demonism. The
blOo0y-hsnded murderer in this city not
only takes individual life, but he stabs
the city and the South. He is not only
ameuable to Gods and the country laws,
whose violation he should eXpiate on
the gallJWs, but he draws the life blood
drop by drop from a country that has
surely lost enough by rspine and ruthless
war. To courts aud juries we must look
for future exemption from these calami-
ties. The greatest evils of war were
not only borne by the invaded
STATES, while subjected to its
ravagss, but the foulest monsters
thag we're born of disJempered timas,
stuffed on from armies and still tester and
stink and rob and murder and destroy
and give iufamy to Southern cOmmunI-
ties. From their pOlluting presence the
North is freed. These are the knaves that
furnish Congress with pretexts for the
creation OF smelling committees, one of
which will visit US during the coming
spring or summer; and these ARE the mon
sLeIs that prevent immigration and the
rapid development Of incalculable riches
ia these Southern States. To the courts,
TO q proper police force, to the hsDgman,
We must look for relief.
THE REIGN OF LOAFERs.
or the whole population Of the South,
only $4,000 labOrers, Of whom only 2OO.
600 are whites, we're engaged in the pro-
ductiOn of al this wealth Of exports to
kuTOpe. Where are the idlers? Who are
they? Unemployed loafers are doubly
criminal. These lOungers about cities snd
seekers of the meanest Offices, these hang
srs on Of rumhOles-these are the mur-
der0rs of men and of our cOuntry's pros
perity. Say what we will of it, the WOr-
thy and industrious Of other States are
repGlled by those who not only do direct
evil in the commission of bloody crimes, /
but bsget as great calamities in destroy
ing, by burdens Of government and costs /
OF courts, the profits Of Southern prOduC-
tion.
THE REMEDY.
The city and country must organize an |
operative public opinion which may reach |
courts and juries and law makers, ami the !
swell mob must be expelled. Idleness |
mu"t become dangerous. as il is disgrace |
ful, and the press must preach the gospel |
OF hard work until there are a million, |
instead OF two hundred thousand, white |
men in the Sou b engaged IN cotton pro- |
dug.ioni until the bowie-knife and pistol |
are deemed implements fit only for use |
among EayaEes and wild bsasts, and until 1
idIeness shall be pronounced as disgrace |
ful AS it Is Plethoric Of crime.
THE MILLENNIUM.
When industry and honest worth are /
deemed iuseparable; when bloody crimes I
are followed by sure and swift punish |
mRnt; when murder dares not lift its hid /
eOus face in eur thOroughfares; when Of |
fees are conferred upon personal worth /
and are regarded as agencies for public, /
and not personal, benefsCtiOns; when de- 4
cent men sit in jury boxes; when honesty /
and d6ceucy are supreme, then stories Of 4
crime and blOcdshed will not appear in /
our newspapers or be paraded in the halls /
Of Congress as a means to exist Radical |
Then this will become 4
the most prosperous country on the globe. 1