The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-06-12
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Interesting Items About tho Cot.
ton Crop.
Scarcity Of Money in the South.
The Credit System and its Impov.
erishing Tendency.
A Glance ut Mississippi Politics
and Politicians.
Sketch Of Some OF the Noted
Aspirants.
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
FLoKEYvILE, BoLIvA1 Co., Miss
June 4, 1872. !

FLoKEYvILE, BOLIvA7 Co., Miss
June 4, 1872.
Editor Of the Times:
Your valuable paper finds i,s way dowI
to Bolivar weekly; and as have been . con
slant reader Of your paper since your first
connection with journalism in Kansss, ~
sure you that l welcome The TINES -
would an old friend whom had tried and
found not wanting. Let me first stste that
admire the bold and fearless manner with
which you have go successfully fought and
conquered corruption in Kansas. dare say
that had not The TINES come forward
when she did, to-day the politics of Kansas
would have been in a state of corruption
ten-fold more black than she now is. Al
first l thought that an independent journal
could not live in Kansas: that he who dared
to inaugurate such movement was doomed
to disaster, but l am proud to know tina,
The TINES not only Tires. but has taken the
lead of all other journals in the State. Long
may che live to battle for the right, and ex-
pose bad men and measures, REGARDLESS Of
party ties.
While in your city in January promised
10 let the 'dear ones at home" hear from
me through your columns. but up to date l
have failed. There are now three things
which are agittt the minds of the
people of Mississippi, namely: the crops.
hard times, and the coming campaign. The
latter, probably, is to large class-politic-
ians-the most important, but more Of that
before l close.
The cotton crops are somewhat back ward,
owing to the excessive amount of rain which
has fallen during the psst two months
Farmers are becoming alarmed, and should
the rains continue much longer, the fear il
that the cotton crop will be failure. If
such calamity should beiall the planters 1t
will indeed be sad, for the planters depend
entirely upon the cotton they product. 1t
must be remembered that cotton il really
liking" down here. A failure in single
crop deprives the people Of bread.
Planters eeem hard to learn the leason
that home productions are always cheaper
than importation. They depend entirely
upon the North and Northwest for bread
stuffs. They conduct their plantations
upon the same plan they did
under the regime of slavery,
which Of course is wrong. They seem to
forget that We live in different age-that is
twelve years--since the abolition Of Ameri.
can slavery-we have lived century. The
improvement made in agriculture. political
economy, in fact in every thing which tends
to the prosperity Of a republican form OF
government is conducted upon basis entire.
~ different TO that OF twelve years sgo.
When the people OF the South learn that
great lesson. -economy-when they begin to
establish home manufactures to consume
their cotton crops instead of shipping them
to the North, and cease to import their
bread. then indeed will the South be the
&" garden spot of the world" Let me show
you, Mr.. Editor, to what an extent the peo-
pie rob themselves.
During the past year South Carolina, Ala.
bama, Georgia and Florida expended for corn
alone-say nothing of the amount paid for
-four and bacon-,histy -four million dollars.
To transport the same it cost thirteen million
dollars. 1t is probable that Mississippi, Ar.
kansas, and Texas expend two-thirds as
much. Just think eight Southern States
annually for corn, and transport
tation, seventy-seven million dollars Now
Il 30 much il expended for corn, il
i not reasonable to suppose that
The same amount is expended for flour and
bacon. If we admit the above, then we
must conclude that the states named for
lhese three articles annually send to the
North and northwest, including Transports
ion, one hundred and fifty-four million dol
lars Now would it not be far better for the
people il they would produce these three
articles OF food Why the forty-twO mil
ian dollars paid for transportation would,
Il devoted to the manufactured, be enough
o fill every city, town and hamlet with cot
on, flour and saw mills.
The facilities for these are superior to
hose of the North, and finer lands do not |
,xist. The productions of these states are |
bout the same as before the war. The
,reat blot and curse which has for 90 many
ears heen a drawback to the advancement Of |
he south has forever been removed, and the |
most fanatical defenders of that peculiar in
titution do not desire its return. The war
hey instituted to perpetuate the institution
bowed a selfsacrificing devotion, which
imply proved earnestness, courage, pluck
nd perseverance,. Before the war the South,
t rather her three hundred thousand slave
olders, ruled the whole country-the
orty-six millions-anomaly so mon.
frous ia unknown. A more exacting
ligarlhy is not recorded in history.
As the South once occupied a commanding
osition in the Naiion-she must again in the
lture, if not the same-a position anala-
Gus to it. The war was to the South of great
oOd. True, there were many who were
lade poor, but like all wars of the kind, it
J the end benefits the people, because it al
avs results in the elevation of the laboring
asses. Just as did the wars of the Roses
England, the wars of the Revolution in
rance, and the war Of the Crimea in Eng
md.
As said in my letter last fail, upon my
rival here, when had seen but little Of
le country, repeat it, that the capitol Of
e North, the skill and enterprise Of New
ngland, is the first want of the South.
be need of these elements has been the
eat bar to the recuperatiOn of those States.
ut bright future awaits the South. when
migration shall begin to pour in, what nov
to a great extent, a wilderness. will blos-
N like rose. l. is not possible for 40
uch wealth TO long lie buried WHEN such
ciIities are offered.
One word about hard times. need not
i you why times are hard, and
Oney matters tight, when
have spoken Of the vast amount
money annually taken out of these States
,ich never returns. Still there is another
ason, perhaps more potent, than the above.
refer to the
PREsExr CREDIT SYSTEM
Before the war rich men were never i'm
lied by the hand of necessity; they knew
4 inc hnt 0ood credit and zero Tina Lead |