The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-17

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Co. ',-4H ~ !! 90 - el ri
the Cottontot policy ss in the ascendant.
I Because cotton lis osar money crop and
because We have virtually driven East
India cotton out .cs the. market--M.
Rivett- -Carnac, late eeston commissioner,
lihaying been. forced Xor lack Of cotton
business to 90 into tha holy opium trade
1.-THE Cottontot is again exclaiming,
|E"Cotton is King" lESIas he heard Of the
new Egyptian cotton s:iant, the 'Bamia p
.IlNot he, and II: he heard he would not
Eheed.. Well, Cotton IT, King, in q sense.
| So is tobacco, so is tar provided yon have
enough Of either, and it will fetch q good
lIprice. If tar was two dollars gallon,
and I held q ,milliosl barrels, tar would
be king, and ]. woullA be q prince, But
| if tar ruled at that price, there would be
a corner in tar in. Nav York, and, you
and I and other Cos sontots would not
own enough to grease a. cart wheel. ,.Y
The Cottontot is g iool in various other
ways-in the mode, for example, Of buy
ing his goods. There. can be, no palmer
business proposition than this-that when
"a man has cheated OF deceived you repea-
tedly, common. sense requires that you
shall drop him .iinstsntlyl and deal with
him no more forever. Duty to, yourself
and your family dema nds that you should
never, forget and never forgive in this
case. And what is true in business is
equally true in politics, is it tnot? Your
political life depends en- your answer to
this question. But what does your; Got
1itontot do? Coming ts town and finding
some adventurer with lot of auction
goods or q COMPROMISED stock, he quits
1.-The old established houses, we'll known to
him, and spends the very money due to
these houses in buying trash and shoddy
from. this adYenturer, Finding himself
cheated agar, hssimpss r ,lapghsla and says,
IfI, tell you these chaps are smart. they
iare keeners, they are, But. If TIE old .es,
i1tablished house 80 mach as ,disappoint
Thin he damns it;as "saiinfernal unprin-
t.cipled Yankee concern."'f:s a,ii bs..,i.s...,
Il Here, then, is the ;saarce of nearly all
our woes this Cottcatot devotion ftoea
single crop and the accompanying over.
'smartness. The cure is plain enough; |;
Iand. it has been admirsbl bly, formulated by
lone of your city papers in the aphorism,
lss Bread, and meat first; cotton ;ldst.o The
mission Of Southern joilrnalism.isato to put
this motto at, the, head; of every paper
IIfom Norfolk to Galveston and to, keep it
I!there. II would print it in indeliblel ink
Ion the foreheads, tattoo. it in the arms,
and brand it in Che palms of the Cotton
itotsr But the press has not been idle in
l|this good cause, for already we see the
liefect of its .labors. Mr. John OFT, ,one
l;of the ablest, and certainly one Of the
Iimost useful, men in Virginia, furnishes
us with this most cheering fact, viz |: tstIn
i 1876, the, West packed, 1a4 915 1867 pounds
1 Tess pork THANH did in 1875. This is the
reason assigned by Western journals :
i The provision trade; owing TO falling
prices during most Of the, year, proved
less profitable than usual :, and = on acr
count of, the political complications in
1.-THE Southern States the demand for dis
,lltribution has been for several monthsi In
Iiterfered with.,l"'s Ohol Mr. West, your
excuse lmethinks is, s,sornewhat thin; We
are, raising onrl: own pork; that is'lthe
whole secret. Butfwin the cure just in
dicated suffice 2i.iI doubt. Itf is a. fact
(which the press will do well never to for-
get that the increase in our provision
licrop is due much more to,the low price
liof cotton than to the wisdom of the Cot
Iitontot,i and if cotton again stonchi 20
cents, he will drop coin iinstanter.i so
iwould it be in; Virginia If! thelow grades
IIof tobacco should accidentally! double in
Eyalue. There is, as. Iawell know person.
Tally, no cure for foHy.a Bray a. Cottontot
or q humorist inea mortar, he willibe q
ICottontot or o humorist still. y s;3a31 aFt
| Gentlemen, ,weiwant lc be friends with
1.-THE North; we.want to win back, IiWiH
not say their loveLgrowt men care little
for each others loye-but we do want to
Twin back their respect and there, is but
one way under heaven to do it. Gre
venge! Gimotheus cries." and I am for
vengeance, immediate af2d dire. Iwon1d
| not rob them of their money as they
robbed Us of Our slaves; I would not
have them, suffer and be strong as we
have suffered and are strong, and intend
to- be stronger, but would inaict upon
them that suffering which brings not
strength but weakness, namely the suffer
ing Of impotent envy. -: -
1 T would snatch the last man. Of them
bald headed from taw, and 60 into the
\ wig business tomorrow morning.
would make every one of them gnash out
every tooth in his upper and lower max!
illaries, so that I might forthwith be
canonized by dentists the North over as
st. Gumbo in1t Fra 5False-set-o. This
slang is detestable, bus7 do you know I
like it. Slang does so pierce and grieye
/ the small souls of! pnrists- those petite
/ n,a;tres of literature wish whom Shake
speare and myself, who closely resemble
each other, never had ard never can have
any patience. ta !.!S'. ~ ~ y
! My friends, we are to win back the re-
spect of the North just as Che respect of
| every other people!is won, and that is by
regaining our lost wealth. Less cotton
I and more meat first and, second, manu-
i featuring our own cotton. This is the
solution of the ewhole difficulty. Thefrst
two pages of Adam Smith tell what ad-
vantage there is in manufacturing raw
material, and, ifYou consult Col: Chiffon,
! at Columbus, Ga, or Col. Childs; at
| Columbia, S. C., he will give you the ex-
act percentage in our iaavor over the New
England manufacturers. Against their
seven months of consumption and five
months of production, We have eleven
months of work and only one, if that; OF
enforced idleness ;Hbutif, on that account,
4 we underrate the power of accumulated
capital, the thrift, skill, energy and
daring of New England, we will be but
repeating the folly Of a certain 10y, at
school in Princeton. Nullstn, 'sun,en abesl
1 81 sit prudential. We cannot possibly be
too wary inthis life-and-death industrial
struggle with a people whose capitalists
are at this moment mapping out cotton
and iron mill sites in the South as min
| utely as the Prussiaus snapped out France
! previous to the late war. But shpposln1g
j - :. u. rsoh no n,ohf