The daily gazette., 1875-02-04
Seventy Three per Cent. on an
Average.
From the NashUtHe american.

From the NdshUille american.
4 correspondent of the Rural Caro-
tiRian sums up the results of cotton
planting in South Carolina "at an av-
erage profit of seventy three per cent.
on the capital invested. Farms have
been purchased and paid for from the
profits on one crop OF cotton. A Mr..
Warthens Is credited with the produc-
tion of five bales on single acre. Cot
ton culture abounds in exceptional
eases to calculated to tempt planters
into industrial ventures which end in
disappointment and ruin. Where
plantations are almost given away, to
avoid oppressive and endless taxation
frohl negro government, one may buy
land So low that u profit Of one dollar
on IN acre VII lie 100 per cent. inter
est on the cost oE the property. The
title is only nominal and provisional
which any man holds to his Southern
real estate. Only II few understand
this pregnant truth. The power 10
tax indefinitely is the true sovereignty
of the land. on-landholders WELD
an unlimited right of taxation, in the
face of which farms deprcciate tn mar
ket value, and farming becomes II pre-
carious lottery transaction. A fortu-
nate few may win prizes, but the sys-
TEN is ruinous to large majority who
are trying to sell and leave. We are
sorry to say these facts are not public
ly discussed and universally y considered
as they should be. The stealing of
hogs, cows, and other farm stock now
going ou in the South, tendsto drive
INDUSTRY, enterprise, and all conf
dence out of the country, if not stop
ped Many fare rs well in the peni-
tentiary, working for their board, as
they would ont of it.
Every county needs penal institu-
tion where profitable labor can be per-
formed, thieves kept secure and made
to compensate society forall the wrongs
they perpetrate. Property must have
greater security in the South before
linen of sense will purchase the real
estate to be governed by negroes, whose
laZiness and bad management are pro-
verbal. They are now steadily con
suming the capital of the planting
States, while not one colored boy in II
thousand is learning any useful trade,
Colorad blacksmiths, tanners, shoe
makers, carpenters, and masons learned
their trades when slaves. Voting and
stealing are the trades now most in vo-
que.
The flaming interest needs tie skill,
labor, and custom of many good me-
chanics. DO our free schools fully
meet this public necessity Certainly
not. Our industry and society are not
organized. The elements of social,
political, and industrial discord are in
a state of active fermentation. The
work of rebuilding the social fabric
has all to he done over again, and more
in harmony with the laws of Nature
and Natures God. The race issue has
not been sought by us in the last quar-
ter of the nineteenth century; it his
been thrust us, and must be met with
all the wisdam and fortitude we may
be able to command. How shall we
organize Southern labor to avoid i'm
pending pauperism and an increase of
crime? Too many consume more than
they produce, leaving society poorer
for their existence. What is the re-
lnedy? Giving away farms is no change
in economy or system Of tillage and
husbandry. Something more must be
done.