The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1874-03-05
Sensible Words.

Maj. Calhoun, of the Columbus (Ga)
Enquirer, has been lecturing the Gran
gers of Scale, Ala. He told some very
homely yet Wholesome truths. We quote
q few of his remarks:
eff the Southern soldiers worked oIe-
tenth as hard for themselves as they did
for the Gonfederacy, the sun in his twenty
four hours course would not shine on q
land more glorious or successful"
He goes on to show the people that It
is not the low price of cotton that makes
hard times, but the want Of energy, busi-
ness management and forecast Men are
the architects of their own misery. He
tells the people that King Cotton is a ty-
rant.
"Yes, Cotton, be is the tyrant king that
has too long lived on the life-blood Of his
subjects, who has impoverished them by
dazzling dreams Of wealth, and sickened
the hearts Of the people by hope long de-
ferred. I will not, however, throw the
whole blame on King Cotton. he had,
and still has. allies nearly as dangerous.
One is extravaganza, the other false pride;
and still another called inconsistency,
which, while catering to the spirit Of pa
triotism in the planters heart, gives him,
on the other, perfect contempt for South
ern enterprises, Southern manufactures,
indeed, for everything Southern but King
Cotton himself, and, then, this King is
fed by food called fertilizers, which he
demands from his subjects, and the more
they feed him the thinner the old King
gets, and the thinner he gets the more in
fatuated become his subjects, and to feed
the King on fertilizers they rob them
selves of food"
He tells the people to make their own
bread and meat, and be more anxious to
be happy and comfortable than rich
The means he points out clearly. Organ
ize as farmers; improve your homestead !,
and count improvements as capital laid
up; tickle the subsoil by deep plowing;
make farming honorable by being intelli-
gent and Independent; beautify the home
stead, as means of cultivating taste and
refining life; anG, above all, get out Of
debt.
Ma;os Calhoun is.a Northsra man, and
here is what he says:
"My faith in the future Of the South 1
have tried to show by casting my lot with
her. I see, in no distant future, the
South freed from the thraldom Of New
York, and her planters freed from the
slavery of debt and the bonds Of igno-
rant culture. I see Southern port OBJ
tanning the money our section now gives
to the great metropolis, and foreign ships
whitening Southern ports with their sails,
as they come to bear us the produce OF
their lands or the labor of their shops,
and take back in exchange that fabric
for which the civilized world opens its
purse-cotton. But the day is nearing,
if we be but true to ourselves, when, in.
stead of shipping to foreign or Northern
ports the raw material, we can send them
with profit to ourselves the manufactured
articles. I can see the time, though l
may have passed away, and you and your
descendants, when this State and the cot
ton States of the South, will be the recog-
nized home of every kind Of manufacture;
and when, instead of cotton being King,
cotton will be our subject and the whole
world our tributaries, for the world needs
nothing that, with intelligent labor, we can
not produce. The day ofdreamers, the day
of demagogucs and politicians, is passed;
and the day of honest, earnest workers,
has come, aud it is for you, the farmers,
within the hearing of my voice, to decide
whether you will live to see it or not
Follow out the course you have been pur-
suing. and your last hours will be troubled
by visions of mortgages and liens. Pur-
sue the pathway Of honesty and common
sense, and you will live to see the South
prosper; her mines worked; her factories
smoking with the incense Of indus
try; her fields we'll titled; her people eat
ing home. made food and wearing home
made clothes, while their hearts in charity
are open to the world"
DUELLINa IN VIRGINIA.-The follow
ing endorsement shows what was the re-
cent action of Gov. Kemper, of Virginia,