The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31

Mr.. Editor: We have but two alterna
tives before us, either to change our agri
cultural policy, or become the bondsmen Of
our present masters. When any policy Of
farm subjects its profits to the fraud of a
scheming and corrupt age, that people, I'M
less the verdict of history be lie is doomed
to poverty, ignorance and degradation.
Alas, what costly, what inestimable sacri-
fees we are making on the road to reach
our ruin, while we are the inhabitants of
. land, potential with Independence, opu-
lence at home, Of power abroad, and the
grandest civilization known to the history
of man. 1t is all here, in our own Sunny
South, locked in the bowels of the earth,
and adened on the all embracing air The
aspects of nature here are big with the pro-
phecies OF glorious empire of greatness.
All the elements that entered into the
ancient civilization Of Egypt and the mod
ern civilization of Europe, are here calling
for people to come to the sublime inheri-
lance of her richest possibility. Yet we
seem to stand unconscious of this potential
universe of greatness, cutchng with eager
haste the deeting hopes of the decaying old,
and never once dreaming of the prospective
empire of the coming new. With lands and
climate capable of feeding millions, and
make the commerce of the nineteedth CEN
fury rich with exports, we are almost starry
ing to death, the most dependent people in
the world. We must change, we must not
sacrifice our own race in the presence of
these possibilities. A people born in debt,
living and dying in debt, can never hope to
be great in anything but debt. And yet
such must be our condition under any sys-
tenn of farming that undertakes to support
the present credit system of the country.
The very system breathes servility, assais
the spirit of independence, absorbs the sur
plusage of labor, which in every age and
country has fostered education, and diffused
the blessings of civil life. And when the
spirit and intelligence of people are gone,
they are emphatically "without God and
without hope in the world for there is no
God nor can there be God, to ignorance
md servility combined.
l stand here, Mr.. Editor, in your midst,
son and lover of my own native Missis-
ipp. mediate much upon the perplexi-
les of the times, and / am firmly convinced l
hat the rise and progress of the Patrons of {
dusbandry in our midst, forms the his
ORIG period with our people. If this Or
ler with all of its lessons of practical util- [
ty, of economy and prudence of industry
md self-reliance, taking hold of the heart
# woman and the strength of man, breath
ng into him the spirit Of indepen9ence-if
his does not save us, and putt on the road /
0 power, sad, sad is. the cchvictionf of one /
Who loves the South as he loves the ashes of
lis mother--I am forced to believe that my
wn people must prove historic " failure
Nature is not always prodigal with her /
fits, nor will she risk the experiment of q
reatness with a solitary race. She q
lust have her masters. This is her in n
xorable law. And they who will be i,
reat and masters in her kingdom, must be
,rvants at all of her affairs. Nor can we, N
our need and poverty, hope to repeal the i
rdinance. ARGUS. G.
Ncw Orleans, Oct Is, 1873. ;,