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

like the old, will bring us all to grlcf, years
hence. \ twine Of twothrcads, scarlet and
sable, State rights and slavery, was involved
in the late "rebclion," us our con>ldcrate
Yankee friends love to mscall it. One was
severed completely, and, States rights man as
| am, would to God sometimes that the 9TH
er had been dctinitel y cleft in twain, for then
would we have been saved exceeding trouble
in time to come.
The next form Of Southern fool which |
shall consider is the agricultural fool; what
, | should call in Virginia, the tobacco worm,
but in this State the Cottontot Gentlemen,
there are Hottcntots and there arc Cottontols.
The oxides Of years lie upon my geographic
memory, and | am little confused as to
IIottentots and patagonians. | only know
that they are extreme Southern people, and
that neither are famous as yet for intell-
gence. The Cottontot belongs to the same
category A Cottontot take to be- person
who, growing nothing but cotton, has to buy
every earthly thing that he uses or consumes
consequently rarely if ever saves anything,
and finds himself, at the end of the year, the
property of his commission merchant-hm-
self the property of the Northern man, for
you'll look in vain to find a business which
does not have Southern noodle at one end
playing druid &c for smart Yankee at the
other. The Cottontot, say, finds himself
the property Of his commission merchant, who
don't want him-wont have him at any price,
and vet can't get rid of him without bank
rupting himself. A pretty exemplilcation
of the vicious business circle all round, ism {
it?
+ My friends, during the twelve years that
have elapsed since the war, at least thirty-slx
million bales (three millions year. Of cotton
have been grown at the South AT 500 a
! bale low estimate, this amounts to sixteen
hundred millions Of dollars. What has be-
come of this enormous amount of money ?
What benefit have we derived from it, and
where has it all gone? Thanks to the Cot
tontot, it has gone precisely where it came
from, and beyond mere support, we have
derived no benefit from it. Is this to 20 on
forever? Yes as long as the Cottontot policy
is in the ascendant Because cotton Is our
money crop and because we have virtually
driven East India cotton out of the market
NJ. Rvett Carnac, late cotton commissioner,
having been forced, for lack Of cotton bnsi.
ness, to 90 into the holy opium trade. The
Cottontot is again cxclaiming "Cotton is
King" Has he heard of the new Egyptian
cotton plant, the "Bamia?" Not he, and if
he heard he would not heed. Well, Cotton
is King, in sense. So is tobacco, SO is tar,
provided you have enough of either and it
will fetch a good price. If tar was two dol
lars Il gallon. and held million barrels, tar
would be king, and would be prince. But
if tar ruled at that price. there would be 81
corner in tar in New York, and you and |
and other Cottontots would not own enough
to grease cart wheel.
The Cottontot is Il fool in various other
ways-in the mode, for example, of buying
his goods. There can be no palmer business
proposition than thiS-that when man has
cheated and deceived You repeatedly, COM
mon sense requires that you shall drop him
instantly and deal with him no more forever.
Duty to yourself and your family demands
that you should never forget and never for
give in this case. And what is true in busl.
ness is equally true in politics, j., it not Your
political life depends on your answer to this
question. But what does your Cottont"t do
with lot of auction goods or Il compromise
stock, he quits the old established houses,
welI-known to him, and spends the very mon.
ey due to these houses, in buying trash and
shoddy from this ahventurer. Finding him.
self cheated again, he simply laughs, and
says, 81 tell you these chaps are smart, they
are krencrs, they are; :" but if the old cslab
lshed house should 50 much as 'lIsuppoint him,
he damns it rs can internal unprinriplcd
Yankee concern
An exceptional year comes and the Cotton
tot actually saves money. What does he do
with it--Irnd it to his poor and needy neigh
bors? Bless you, no. He is Il fool, but not
quite big enough fool for that. He wants his
money where he can lay his hands on it at
any moment. Time was when II mans word
was It's good as his bond, but now almost all
bonds are three times worse than any man :
word. SO the CottOntOt wisely carries this
money to bank, where he encounters another
Southern fool, who pays him 6 per cent. for
his money, and then lends it at 10 or II per
cent well knowing when he lends it that he
is killing the business of the borrower. For
what is bank. rightly conducted? 1t is
simply a heart, pump, an ;rmc ram for re-.
cciving and forwarding the circulation. And
what fool Of Il heart that heart would be
! which would deliberately engnrge itself, pro.
ducing vuIvular disease, hypcrtrophy and
aneuriSm at the expense Of the atrophy Of the
rest Of the body! Yet that is precisely what
so many banks are doing on a small scale and
that greatest ofall human dolts, the North,
the banker of the nation, has been doing on {.
grand scale. Ever since the war it has been
stuffing itself with circulation taxing Virgin
il, with her three millions Of banking capital,
seven millions annually, and New England,
with one hundred and sixty millions, only
five millions year, viewing all the while its
whitening Southern cxtrcmitieS with com mpla
cency and even delight, until at last engorge.
mcnt has produced stagnation and paraI y<Is.
To that and to that alone, not to any synpa-
thy for your troubles or admiration for your
heroic endurance you owe your present release
from bondage worse than death. If now, IN
true Southern fashion, you 60 about to guSh
because the iron hand is lifted for moment,
to fancy that human nature can become all
gclic in day, to abandon common sense and
common prudence, to forget the past, and to
ctface from memory the impressions which
suffering has counter-sunk in it, and which
should remain clean.edgcd and bright for at
least half a cenury--if you do this then are
you Cottontots indeed But you are not go
ing to forget They will not let you forget.
You little comprehend the drift Of events if
you fancy otherwise.
All but the millennium is coming-is alrea-
dy here Oh Yes, have seen number Of
millenniums in my time They never last
ten, and rarely seven years. Thanks to the
President, who has done his duty, nothing