The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-10-10


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crop ~ 1870 and 1871 va nearly %
large as ever raised.
Rome. IN tho grandeur n her R5-
publican simplicity. went 10 the plov
Tor her coauls and licr warriors. aid
even hor sublimest post sang In
bucolic strains but When the Empire
came aud Cesarism trinnphed, freed
men we're masters ON the farm, and
Egypt aod Podalia became her gra-
naries, and thence alone her subsisI
enco IL drawn. TIE concentration
Of power, the combinations and ,x.
travagancc of wealth, tho last Of
official station, but above and beyond
all the loss Of agricultural iudepend-
enco for subsistence upon "lofeigu
nations, who became hostile ones"
brought the proud empire, divers
from all the rest" down TO the dust
and rent her into fragments
is there sufficient resemblance here
to make comparison ? Will our
decay, which no one disputes cease
until the country is deserted wild,
left only to the half cultivated and
fcebly scratched patches of the free D.
man, so long as we depend for so
great a portion Of our subsistence
upon the fertile pldins Of Illinois, and |
the highly cultivated valleys of the
Great West? Is it not apparent,
brothers, is it not apparent, that VIC
can never successfully raise cotton
with which to buy meat, and cosn,
and all the necessities of life with +
the power of the Government and
the wealth Of the spectators COM
bned against us, in its cultivation?
How long, O! how long will you
follow the miserable system adopted
at the close of the war-the planting
Of cotton alone, and partnershipping
with the laborer? Patrons, with you
at least, let the caraival OF cotton
end +. let the cropping system with
the laborer cease; hire for wages aud
thus ihauguIate your own independ-
ence-assure the cleaning of your
Ience corners and bitches, new rails,
and the rebuilding of your fences,
the cleansing Of your moulding and
ire.fanged barn yards, and the saving
IF rich stores of fertility, the cultiva-
ion of fruit, the planting Of trees,
md the adornlnent of your homes /;
md 50 let farming, true farming,
,omc to the front, with corn for COM
nander Of the forces and cotton in
he ranks, and shortly the balances
would be in our favor.
When we take home to our hear IS,
lie serious truth; that this has been
he most inauspicious season, for
.rops of all kinds, for many years,
md that the grain crops, the acreage
vas greatly in excess of past years,
re not sufficient for home consump-
ion; that the drouth has been edul lily
atal in the West, with one of the
'lagues Of Egypt ravaging the land
# its green and growing crops how
'ainfu it is to think of him who neg
Getting bis opportunity, has no corn,
must look abroad for subsistence for
he coming year, and to get it pay
he enormous profits OF the railroads
md the per cent of the mer chants. .
Corn is cash, and as the worry
oundation stone Of this Order is
ash, let it be based ON corn. Plant i
orn then, Patrons OF Husbandry,
liant corn and save the land-sow
rain and invite prosperity-plant
orn and cancel the deeds of trust,
Which hang like the sword of Damo'
les, over the homestead5 of your
wives and little onos-sow grain and
ssure imlEigration--plant corn and I
i've under your own vine and fig.tree. /
free, independent and happ, people,
With no barren aud quilted fields to
hook the eye, no rotting and neg
ected fences TO invite the solitary
log to plumber half titled patches, no
iilapidated houses and barns to shame
he owner; aud above all, no deeds
# uust to wiring the silent tear from
lie faithful, he.p-gising aud trembling
y;fo l,t lat tho abparful words of