Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-24

divide before that time would be the mad
ness of the moon itself This attempt to re.
vivc the Wing party is, as the Popular Science
.)Iouthiy says of PIcasanton's buc-glass book
the "ghastlc<t rubbish" of the century; and
when see Il Southern paper sucking a little
thin poslotlice advertisement pap, am at
loss whether to laugh or to weep.
To come back to the Cottontot. The fer
tlizcrs he buys in Charleston, almost double
the value of his crop. "Aha y he cxclaims
"they have stuffed the bags for me, hoping to
catch me again. No you don't, MIR. Manu-
facturcr, you arc mighty smart, but not quite
smart enough for me. I've got you this time
and the next time you catch Inc you will know
it." Or, neglecting his crop, he is dlsappont'
ed in his fertilizer; while his neighbors, using
precisely the same article, and giving due at
tention to their fields, more than realize their
fnndcst expectations. Whereat the Cottontot
swcars loudly that his neighbors have been
favored at his expense, and that he has been
gro<sl Y swindled.
Here, then, is the source of nearly all our
woes-this Cottontot devotion to single crop
and the accompanying over.smartness. The
cure is plain enough and it has been admi-
rably formulated by one of your city papers
in the aphorsm, "Bread and meat first =; cotton
hst" The mission of Southern journalism is
to put this motto at the head Of every paper
from Norfolk to Galveston, and to keep it
there would print it in indelibe ink on
the forchcaIs, tattoo it in the arms and brand
it in the palms Of the Cottontots But the
press has not been idle in this good cause, for
already we see the effect Of its labors MIR.
John OFT, one of the ablest, and certainly one
of the most useful, men in Virginia, furnishes
us with this most cheering fact, viz: "ln 1876,
the West packed l04, ,9l5 1867 pounds less pork
than It did in 1915. This is the reason as
signed by Western journals: The provision
trade, owing to failing prices during most OF
the year, proved less profitable than usual
and on account Of the political complications
in the Southern States, the demand for distri'
button has been for several months intertered
with" Ohio! Mr.. West, your excuse me-
thinks is somewhat thin; we are raising our
own pork that is the whole secret But will
the cure just indicated suffice? doubt. 1t
is a fact which the Press will do well never to
forget that the increase in our provision crop
is due much more to the low price Of cotton
than to the wisdom Of the Cottontot, and if
cotton again touch 20 cents, he will drop
corn instanter. So would it be in Virginia
if the low grades of tobacco should acciden-
tally double in value. There is, as | we'll
know personally, no cure for folly. Bray Il
cottont0t or humoriSt in a mortar, he will be
Il cottontot or a humoriSt still.
Gentlemen, we want to be friends with the
North we want to win back, will not say
their love-grown men care little for each
others love-but ne do want to win back
their respect and there is but one way under
heaven to do it, "Revcnge. Timotheus
cries." and | am for vengeance, immediate
and dire. would not rob them Of their mon
ry as they robbed US Of our slaves would
not have them suffer and be strong as we have
suffered and are strong, and intend to be
stronger, but would intlict upon them that
suffering which brings not strength but weak
ness, namely the suffering Of impotent envy.
| would snatch the last man Of them bald
headed from law, and go into the wig busl-
nc.s to morrow morning. | would make eve
ry one Of them gna>h ont every tooth in his
upper and lower naxllarics, so that | night
forthwith he canonized by dentists the North
over aS Gumbo in St. Fra Falsc-set-o. This
Sian. is dctc<labIr, but do you know like it.
Slang does 50 pierce and grieve the small
souls Of puriSts-theSe petite maiires Of lltera-
ture, with whom Shakespeare and myself, who
closely resemble each other, never had and
never can have amy patience.
Nv friends, We are to win back the respect
Of the North just as the respect of every 9TH
er people is won, and that is by reganing
our lost wealth. Less cotton and more meat
first, and, second, manufacturing our own
cotton. That is the solution of the whole
difficulty. The first two pages of Adam
Smith tell what advantage there is in manu-.
featuring raw material, and, if you consult
Col. Chiffon, at Columbus, Ga, or Col. Palm
cr, at Columbia, :. G., he will give you the
exact percentage in our favor over the New
England manufacturers. Against their seven
months Of consumption and five months of
proluction we have eleven months of work
and only one, if that, Of enforced ldeneSs
but if, ON that account, we underratc the
power of accumulated capital the thrift, skill,
energy and daring of New England, we will
be but repeating the folly of Il certain boy at
school in Princeton Nullum nuneM abest 81
SIT prmlcntiu. We cannot possibly be too
wary in this lifcand,dcath industrial struggle
with Il people whose capitalists are at this
moment mapping out cotton and iron mill
sites in the South as mnutel y as the Prus-
slams mapped out France previous to the late
war. But $upposng we get rich, enormously
rich, as we ought to do, and in time most GER
tainly will, what then? Why every man of
us will pull up stakes rs soon as the summer
begins and spend every surplus cent in New
York, Saratoga. Long Branch and Newport.
And who shall blame us, seeing how fright
fully dull our own watering places are? New
crthelcsS, nothing is more certain than that
Georgia and South Carolina are destined to
be enormously rich. 1t is written in the book
Of fate that this noble commonwealth shall
have rccompcn<c for her unparalleled atilic-
tons And when you get rich | want you to
come to Virginia. DO you ever think of the
good old State? hope so. Your brothers
sleep under her sod, and from that sod many
Of you that are now living have looked up,
night after night, to the unanswering stars,
wondering where you would be on the NOR
row. Yes, YOU remember Virginia; you can
never forget her. Her men are much too
prone to claim all glory for themselves and
their State but her women, have you no ten
der recolIcctons Of them in the hospital and
the home? Well, then, get rich quick and
come back to old Nirginia's shore. We have
got there the prctticst and sweetest girls in
the habitahle world. This say in tone so
low that only the long male ears of this au-
dicnce can hear me. But it is so. We have
got also full line Of the most bewitchng
widows that ever lightencd mourning and
"took notice." Also, we have some females