Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-21

sumo, that should obtain money from
Mr.. Brooks when l needed money.
Question:. Yet you did not keep any for
NAL book with him?
Ansaoer. do not keep any formal books
with him.
Again on page 416 he says:
| Question. The interest upon the bonds
Mr. Brooks holds is in part drawn by you !?
| Anssoer. He has given me some coupons.
He has given me the coupons from five OF
| the bonds, as per agreement. The coupons
on the other ten bonds he draws himself
l*
Question. Then he has had interest on
eleven thousand?
AnsDer. Yes; Mr. Brooks from time to
time has made me some presents of $500
about Christmas or New Years.
Question: Would he be any more likely
to give it at Christmas or New Years than
at any other portion of the year?
Ansaoer No; he did not always give it
at New Yera's.
And when pressed upon this point
be made this admission:
Question, You got it, then, not because
it was New Years, but because the inter
est was due?
Anssoer. Bssaase the interest was then
due.
Mr.. Brooks never has been paid, and
never will be paid till the crack of
doom. For four long years Mr.. Brooks
has been in possession of these bonds
drawing interest. That is the charac-
ter of the case in regard to Mr.. Brooks
and his son-in-law, Mr.. Nelson. Was
not the committee justified with this
recital of the transaction in saying that
the whole transaction between Brooks
and Nelson was mere sham, and that
in point of fact Nelson was mere
fgurehead in the ownership while Mr..
Brooks derived the fruits of the con-
tract, and has continued to enjoy them,
and enjoys them at the present day
| am sorry, sir, sorry from the depth
of my heart, to be obliged to make
this statement and exposition Of testi-
mony in this cause, but when duty calls
me, neither friend nor foe must expect
me to depart from the line of duty, let
the consequences fall on whom they
may.
Here the hammer fell
The Importance and Value of the South
ern States.
We make the following extract from the
New York Herald:
"People generally at the North have not
considered the immense value of the South
ern States in an economical and CONNER
cial point of view. We're 1t not for their
products the country aooulI be hopelessly bank
rupt. Our foreign commerce would be
very limited. The cotton crop enables us
to liquidate our debts abroad as well as to
pay for the vast amount of luxuries we i'm
port, and goes further than anything else
to create and stimulate the enormous
wholesale and retail trade which builds
] up New York and other commercial cities.
1t gives wings to the mighty fleets of YES
sells that traverse the ocean and crowd our
wharves. 1t sets myriads of spindles at
work and gives employment to vast num-
bers of people in the United States What
do the forty to fifty millions of gold and
silver raised annually, or the surplus bread
stuffs and other things we export, amount
to, compared with the cotton product AID
expectation This single product of the
South is of more value in foreign trade
and in paying our Indebtedness abroad than
all other products, and is three or four
times. of more value than that of the pre-
cioQs metals. In addition to this the 9th
err ecial productions Of the South, such
as tobacco, sugar and rice, are very valua-
BILE both for foreign commerce and home
consumption. But the capabilities of this,
the fairest, most productive and genial
section of our common country, are almost
unlimited. 1t has raised nearly all the ne
cessaries of life for its own population, be-
sides surplus of the staple products named
for commerce to the amount of two hun
dred millions or more of dollars year
and with proper encouragement the sur
plus would be augmented in few years to
three or -four hundred millions. No ma
ton before ever had such valuable herit-
age. What folly, then, to neglect! What
a suicidal policy, economically, political
ly, and in every way, is that which has
been pursued towards the South! The
policy of neglect and repression is injuri-
Gus to the whole country as we'll as to the
South. Lift up that section, and all will
feel the benefit"