The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-01-07
COLUMBIA. S. c..
Saturday %ozH;nS. January z. 1871.
Tho Proposed Meosing-south Carolina
Agricultural and Mechanical Society,
and tho Joint Stock Company.

rage this State enterprise to extend this
notice.
We have alrendy commented upon
the advantages to accrue to the indus
trial interests of the State from an active
and strong Agricultural and Mechanical
Society. The objects of the Joint Stock
Company is to place the annual State
Fair upon secure basis. A compare
lively small amount of stock taken in
each County would secure the success OF
the enterprise.
ALL CoTroN.-We commend to The
careful perusal Of our planting friends
the following article from The Paper, a
Democratic sheet published in Pitts
burg, Pa, now that the season Tor
''pitohing" Mt the new crop is approach
ing:
ga sufficient number of years havo
elapsed since the conclusion of hostiii-
ties between the States of the North and
South to permit Of a calm survey Of the
The conquerors were not made SO by
would first appear, from their numerical
superiority, although the latter aided
them very materially, but because the
North was section of mechanics and
its adversary merely an agricultural re-
gion.
1T was not q contest Of muscle against
muscle, but of brains and inventive ge-
MUS in opposition to personal courage.
Ine South found few staples SO pro-
ductive of wealth that it confined itself
to the cultivation of these, and allowed
every other interest to lanauish. It's
Cities became only great warehouses for
the storage OF cotton, sugar and tobacco,
and the pride of the people swelled into
undue proportions as they beheld the
shipping of the world ut their crowded
wharves, eager to carry off, even to the
uttermost ends of the earth, the fruits
of their fertile fields. From this was
begotten the fallacious idea that cotton
was king, and that his -sceptre not only
swayed the destinies of America, but
that it was not without force on the other
side of the Atlantic. This was very flat
tering to the vanity Of growing people.
still young in the family of States, and
was sufficient to dazzle their eyes with
splendor altogether meretricious. The
n source of pride to every American.
That pride, however, should never have
even remotely approached idolatry. The
fact that it did become so, no person
will deny, and to this we assign the sub
sequent overthrow Of its worshippers
when the ewar broke ont it found the
States of tho South rich in cotton, in
sugar, in men and iu money, with IN en-
thuslasm amounting almost to insanity,
and determination to achieve victory
by the prowess of their arms. The
North went into the conflict With an
enrnestness as terrible. but with every
thing the South lacked. Wo had di-
verslted industry to back us; we Ind
iron and coal aud steel for the manufac-
ture of arms and munitions; we had
corn and outs for the cavalry, wheat and
rye for the soldiers, and mills for the
manufacture of cotton and wooden fab
RIGS with which to furnish raiment to our
men in the field. The South had none
OF these. IT'S true, there were iron
works in Virginia and in Mississippi, but
these were crippled early in the war by
reason Of the blockade and mechanical
poverty of the South. History furnishes
no instance where S,000,O 900 of people,
equally united and determined, have
ooon SupJuSateu. dnu The South pnr-
sued wiser policy in the past; hnd it
encouraged healthy immigration and
tostered manufactures, it would huve
been more formidable antagonist, and
doubtless would have protracted the
struggle indefinitely, even if we admit
that under circumstances victory was in
its reach. The lesson we dedncc from
the failure Of tho South, then, is that,
without blending Of industries, no
State or country can ever attain truc
greatness. When q country can live
within Itself it is independent, and moi
until then. The people of the South are
rapidly realizing this, and from al parts
we hear of new manufacturing enter
prises. Georgia seems to have the lead
as yet, but Tennessee. with her iic:l mi
neral deposits, is putting on the armor
OF Vulcan and strding rapidly to the
front; while Louisiana seems TO lave
made up its mind to send us its cotton
IN webs, instead Of bales, ,s formerly.
The mechanic is invited to 60 South mid
cooperate with the planter. This iuyi.
tation is being needed, too, and union
OF interests is being formed that viii
eventually give birth to great socinl