The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1873-04-30
South Carolina as a Home OF the In
migrant.

Of late there seems to DC chahSe
of public sentiment in the North
with regard to the south-a grow
ing disposition to do justice to her
unrivaled natural advantages, us
well as to the spirit and character
of her people. The recent visit OF
the Hon. Horatio Seymour and
VIM. G. Bryant, of New York, TO.
Charleston, was made the OCCASION
of an interchange OF kindly greet
ings, between the representative
men of the two sections, in which
full Justice was done to the prlnci-
pies which inspired the past policy
and present attitude of the South; :
and only d few days since'we sec
that Henry Ward Beecher, strlk-
ing, as it were, the keynote OF
Northern sentiment, pays fitting
tribute to the self-sacrificc and de-
votion to principle which charac-
terized the conduct of our OWL
State in the late eventlnl struggle.
The change of sentiment is
equally manifest in growing dis
position to do justice to those ad-
vantages of climate, soil and other
natural resources which have long
given the South potent influence
in the commerce Of the Union-ap
influence not less potent that it was
ignored abroad and undervalued at
home. 1t is not long since that we
quoted from an article in the New
York Herald which presented the
subject in a very striking light, and
showed that Southern production
was essential to Northern com
merce, and that this in fact had
built up her cities, hoated her ua-
vies, and set in motion her manu-
factories-that twas to her more
than the wealth of California or else
beside-that without it she would
be bankrupt. Following in the
, same strain, we have had Of late a
number of Northern correspond
ents, who writing from Charleston,
Columbia, and other points, have
given glowing descriptions of our
natural resources, and Of the in
ducements which they offer to
tempt the immigrant. Among
those who, seem to have observed
closely, reflected maturely, and
written earnestly, a prominent
place must be given to a CORES
pondent Of the Ne,o YORK. Tribune,
who of late has contributed num-
Der of interesting letters to that
paper on the subject.
He does full justice to our unri-
vailed climate, which whilst in two
thirds of the State it engenders no
malaria, brings to an agricultural
country the enjoyment Of this i'll
estimable advantage Of having no
winter. Here flourish all the prod
ucts of the temperate zone, which
are raised with almost equal 1acili-
ty, though not with equal profit.
Corn which sells out West for
twenty-five cents a bushel is wortA
here one dollar, and can be raised
as well here as in Pennsylvania
hay which an b. raised at the rate
of two tons to the acre, sells froru
forty-fve to fifty dollars ton,
when the same will bring only six
dollars a ton in the Western
markets. But after all, cotton is
the most profitable crop, and land
which will brfhg only ten bushels
of corn to the acre, will produce
half bale of cotton, worth from
forty to fifty dollars. An acre may
be made to produce from three
hundred to five hundred pounds OF
cotton, according to the character
of the cultivation, and as the price
of the staple is subject to as few
fluctuations as any other, and the
crop itself to less deterioration, its
culture is truly tempting. Hence
the complaint that farmers will
grow no other crop. Says the
writer:
"a small farmer on the outskirts
of Columbia lately bought eighty
acres of land. Last year he put
forty acres in cotton. lie raised
forty bales of five hundred pounds
each on this forty acres. He had
the advantage Of good supply Of
stable manure from the town and
labor from the same source. The
total cost of production was nine
,.,,c nound He sold his croD