The farmers' vindicator., 1874-09-18

of the Constitution, and is an usurper
of power, and sh6uld be dragged from
the place be suVies by his vote and
corrupts by his combinations.
Let ID, il conclusion, turn from the
grand subjects Of the revenue and
finance HE questions which, more
than e2&f before, command the earnest
attentisn of the people at large, which,
Ia fact, have at length ceased to be
merely TIE shuttlecocks and battle
dore Of dreamy political economists,
but are about to Be grappled il the
lbragny arms Of the people-to the
personafa and peculiar
SITUATION AND CONDITION
Of Mississippi agriculturists. Your
speaker is not here to applaud the
Order Of Patrons; to give ID detail its
rise and progress, and unprecedented
success. 1t iS&<Aday its own eulogist.
We say it as ly as the Roman
did when he SPOKE Of his citizenship,
II am Patron! !e-but he is here 10
lampoon and critlcise the wonderful
efforts Of Mississippi farmers for seven
years past, in the plan Of "how not to
do it," but since the organization of
this Order here, it is to be hoped that
we shall learn some wisdom from the
sad experiences ofsthe past; for the
past should be to all lesson and a
guide, and he who will not listen to
and learn from SC eloquent critic,
must be left to blunder on and perish,
surrounded and entombed by his own
follies.
Are we, the agricultural people Of
the State, aside from the discrimina-
tions of the Government, in a pros.
porous or decaying condition? If not
prospering what are the immediate
and personal causes.of our troubles,
and what is the remedy? Surrounded
as we are by soil universally pro.
ductive, which has not its superior,
even if it has its equal in natural fer
tility within the bounds of the Ameri-
can Union; with abundant and beau
tiful water.courses; with unlimited re-
sources, and varieties of timber trees
unequalled anywhere; with lime and
sand and loan and clay; with labor
sufficient for your present capital, and,
above all, climate unsurpassed and
unsurpassable, can we not say,
" Come hither, come hither by night and
by day,
We linger in pleasures that never are
Like the wayeNoi the summer, as ones dies
away,
Another as sweet and as shining comes on.
" Here maidens are signing, and fragrant
As the flowers of Aurora just Cpd by a
bee,
And precious their tears as that rain from
the sky
Which turns into pearls as il falls in the
sea.
Oh, think what the kiss and the smile must
be worth,
When the sigh and the tear are so perfect
in bliss.
And own if there be an Elysium on ca rth,
1t Is thls ~ Is thlsl Ai
Is this the extreme of poetic Ii
cense? Is it AN exaggerated compari:
son? i appeal from the reason of
Cesar to the fancy Of Octavia. Will
not my sisters uphold my hands, and
indorse the assertion that Mississippi
only needs full development, and
poet like Moore, to be einbalmed in
verse as sweet and as full?
And yet, is it necessary to remind
SO intelligent an audience as this with
all our natural resources, that we are
in a deplorable condition. There are
THREE GENERAL CAUSES
for this, and the abandonment Of the
causes is the only remedy. First, the
cotton-crop, instead of being mud-sill
and main prop, must be only promi-
nent and essential brace in the agri-
cultural structure. Second, the farm
ar, who owns the land, the stock, and
furnishes all the capital, must not CO.
partnership with the laborer. And
,hird, corn, small grain, and the best
grasses, must be as familiar ON the
arm and as much at home as the ba-
oies, that cattle and sheep, and horses,
mules and hogs may be raised. As
hese three are pointed out as
REMEDIES,
t is assumed that none of this has
been general practice. Let us see.
After the war between the States was
ended, there was no want of subsist-
,nce here. Corn, and the hog were
everywhere, and cotton sufficient for
III purposes of freeuperation. We were
\ the road of successful farming un-
Ter the new order;i but, unfortunately |
or us, the worlds cotton fast was end,
ID, and it was greedily demanding
ul supply. What We had on hand
vas sold at enormous prices, ranging