The enquirer southerner., 1874-07-17
CHAPTER II.

| oelieve when Mr.. fuckers
clerk broke the thread Of my dis
course, was making a calculation.
l had told how the following persons
realized profits on me:
l. The Raleigh Cotton Factor.
2. The Railroads and Steam
lines.
3. The Insurance Agents.
1. The Baltimore Merchant.
S. Northern Railroads.
6. The Northern Insurance Com
panies.
I. The manufactures.
8. The Wholesale Merchant.
9. The Railroads on the return
freight.
10. The Insurance men on return
risks.
II. The Retail Dealer.
The parties Ill showed q deep
interest in me, and [ wish to say
| entertain no unkihd feelings to-
wards any Of them. The profits
they realized from me were legiti>
mate and proper. But, I feel very
kindly for the man who raised me,
and when | considered that he paid
all these accumulated profits, adj
ded to the original cost, l did not
wonder that he dressed poorly and
was hard pressed to support his
family. [ have travelled around
and listened to calculating men talk,
and [ intend to whisper a little to
him by the Crescent. What I want
to say is
Raise your own hogs. Don't
buy Western bacon at a high price,
when cotton is liable TO be at a low
price Sow an acre or two in
clover. It will save corn and en-
able you to feed your teams, and
will cost you less than Northern
oats and hay. It will enable you
to feed your COWS better, and they
will give more and better milk and
butter. Your calves EiIl grow
larger and make finer cattle. Don't
keep too many cattle. Raise your
own corn and wheat. Don't plant
all cotton. If your land is poor,
SOW peas and improve it, Save all
your barn~yard manure compost
your vegetable mould, and don't buy
worthless fertilizers.
And when | get through whis>
pering to the farmers, I want to say
a word to capitalists.
Cotton must be raised in the
South. There will always be q
demand for the manufactured arti~
Gle. We have water-power in abun-
dance. If Northerners manutac>
ture it on the frozen streams of
New England, and realize hand
some profits, why cannot the South
ern manufacturer, who can pur>
chase it at his door without freight
and insurance charges, compete
successfully with the Northern
manufacturer Our water~powers
are as good streams are seldom
frozen; our climate is better; we
can work more days in the year;
labor can be had as cheap. Be-
sides making large profits on the
capital invested, you will give en-
ployment to our poor women and
children, and the cost Of manufac-
turing instead of enriching men
thousand miles away will be spent
with our own merchants and trades
men, and thus improve the condi-
ton of our own State.
| do not wish to be misundcr~
stood. I do not desire North
Carolinians to invest their capital
in factories because | entertain any
unkind feeling for Northern people.
[ have had enough Of sectionalism.
[ was once known as King Cotton,
but my crown if not entirely ruined
is badly damaged by sectional diff
ficulties. I only mention the North
because most of our staple is man
ufactured there. I wish to see all
our people, North and South pros
per, bnt | can see nothing like
prosperity for the south-for North
Carolina-until her people learn to
raise their own food, manufacture
their own staples, and give en-
ployment to their own mechanics
Crescent.