The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-11-28

snug litlet two and three horse farms 'Withfn'
the'past three years have been cut off those
large plantations. There, near by you, are
two snng little homes, two horse farms, cary
cd from the forest, within three years, now
well improved, and making, this year, be-
sides provisions, twenty bales of cotton to-
the horse-fabout eight balesto the laborer)
cultivation easy and light, health perfect,
and all within sight Of the church spire, the
school.house, railroad, telegraph Office, &C..
Beyond Pine Tree, south to Swift Greek,
on the southern confines of-the county, for.
ten miles below Camden, stretch the finest
bodies Of lands, forming recently large plan.
tations, with their summer retreats and
huge forests. Right on the railroad, the
process Of subdivision into small farms is 60
ing on year by year, but as yetthis is depend
ent on our own population. Our best
young people are occupying them, and
establishing the basis of fortunes But the
process is slow. From this hill top could
select farms for thousand immigrants, and
we appeal to the Northern people to come in
and settle them. Capitalists come and take
these glorious water powers. Farmers come
and be our neighbors in delightful homes.
Laborers come and, with your wages for a
year or two, you can be independently set
tied for life. Gentlemen of case and taste
come an buy these splendid mansions, whose
owners want more contracted homes. Come
and build elegant villas on these crowning
heights that cover thisrlovely scene.
Within fifty years, from tho invention OF
the Cotton Gin, this little county had grown
from wilderness to a population Of fifteen
thousand owning immense agricultural
wealth, huge plantations, rich farms and
| noble mansions-a railroad, manufactures,
two banks, &c., and had also built up, By
emigration, whole counties in the South
west. 10.
Much of all this beautiful land that liel
spread out before you, was once occupied by
small farmers, who drifted down from
Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina
whose descendants have given tone and
character to society as good as any in the
South-many of them Presbyterian Irish
and many of the old Virginia cavaliers The
spreading demands of the old plantation
style of huge fields, and the invading waves
of cotton culture, absored these farmers who
sought new homes in Georgia, Alabama
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas aae
Florida. War and its desolating result
have rooted out, forever, these old plantations
they would at once naturally revert to theil
normal condition of small farms, but ou
population is too sparse. The work offer
| high reward, but it is work requiring brain
nerve, aspiration and muscle. The whit
man has them all; the negro, only muscle, a
yet-and politics, for him, will engross al
the other ingredients, until too late for tn
opportunity. @'
Friends of the North and West, com
into this goodly land and possess it! Thes
are the fairest and best of all the fields of tn
South, where often, again and again, in
: lifetime, have our old citizens dug out c
1.-THE ground half million Of dollars trol
smaller beginnings than these little two-hors
:, farms, leaving, after we'll spent lives, thes
large estates for distribution among educate'
, cultivated descendants.
I knUw toah' little two-horse farms tn