The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-08
The coadiftsn ~ s1ississippi.

We do not oyerstate the figures when
we mark down $500, 900 0C0 as ahout the
aggregate value for which the MISSISSIPPI
cotton crop has sold since 1863. II ascu,
show that we have rather understated the
amount. OF this4Lpo0, goo worth wea aha
be an extrayaaHfff 3fxnrA to represent Tue
row material Scnsrsssd at home.
What beooaes @ go m money! n yyhs state mSs
either in gold pe ee ,nssyn to am
swer these question:. The scarcity q, 81
money the still greater searcity Of credit
the absence of manufactures and mac'
lime sllops-the upimproyed plantation,
with its lettering cabins and diiapiaaseo
Clubhouse, and it's bitches and fences Mes :,
troysd-,no railroads, though plenty ta.kea
ofSsuch facts tell their own sad story, tnat
these fmme nse revenues, the most OF W VIC
should have gone towards the sehaoulsa-
ZION and development Of Mississippi, nave
BEEN diverted efsewhere.~ And where 10
tho grain, seotk and provisions States On tue
Weet, ana 20 the shop keeping ena @ Ms..
They. have built upon this gold, ara nave
grown proud and Aopuient, anockIng our
misery with their own magnifcence. - -.
sTs How long il this condition OF affairs 20
ssss =, How long is Mississippi to eantinae
. poor miserable one-crop State, De- endent
znpen aaieu cemmunities for every tnang sue
needs g just 30 long as her people make
cotton their God and fall down and wor-
ship it to the neglect ofeverythiug else.
In California the miner drudges daily
from one years. end to the other, digging
His ingots. At night he swaps them Tor
chips and whetstones and the means sim,
plyo keeping body and soul together, and
drudges day after day. If he has any sur
plus the suttler exhibits his little monte or
faro and quietly bags it. Do our planting
friends find any points Of resem blance TO
their own condition ia this picture OF the
California mineri Let them think.
Here is State pleased beyond all her
ton. The virgin soil Of her river bottoms,
capable Of producing without any artifee
beyond reasonable cultivation, crops OF
cotton and corr in excess per acre OF any
| land in the universe-with enormous ranges
for stock, ample to provide every animal
needed for either labor or CONSUMPTION. !, IN
the State. And with uplands susceptible
Of every species of productive development:
There 10 no sheep country in the world
suparior to the hill region of Mississippi.
| The late Mark CockeriIl, who, before the
war, was large sheep raiser in Madison,
| took the premium at the London Worlds
Fair in 1859, ON wool growing in that coun-
ty. In the upland region of Mississippi,
constituting about four fths of her entire
area, corn, oats, wheat, rye, barley, stock
and poultry all do we'll, aud in many parts
| of il quite as we'll as in Tennessee or Ken
lucky. Then there ara points in her limits
most favorably located for manufacture
i and machine shops, with the raw material
i at their doors, and with all other facilities
4 equally as convenient, if not more so, than
| in the Nosth, and East. As for health, there
| is no position of the United States that can
show less mortality to the amount of po2u-
| lation. than the State of Mississippi, especi'
ally her uplands.
Now. when We come to an. appreciation
of these manifold advantages which God
has given us, and show our appreciation
BY rcsolutely awaiting ourselves of them
when we get to raising just what We re-
auire for cur own use, what corn and after
that what cotton we can then, and not
until then, will be felt the shoulder OF Her
cules on our wheel moving US on to solid
prosperity.--V icksburg Herald. 'Fr per