The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-25
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4 paratioH which make or mar campaign
and in this warfare, as in the noisier ant
briefer wars, you are to be saved by you
strong, hard business common sense, ant
that alone. The end of the struggle at Ap
pomattox was but the beginning of another
and much more desperate struggle-the OBJ
jcct Of which is the conquest of your most
cherished ideas in politics, religion and So
cial order-the Encouragement of the very
molecules of your brain-the facing about
OF your innrost soul-no less. This is the
new ''irrepressible conflict" which, like the
old, will bring us all to grief, years hence
A twine OF two o.thrcads, scarlet and sable,
State rights and slavery, was involved in
th, late "rebellion," as our considerate Yam
kce friends love to miscall it. One was
severed completely, and States rights man
as | am, would to God sometimes that the
other had been definitely cleft in twain, for
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 Cotton
tots. The oxides of years lie upon my geo.
graphic memory, and am little confused
as to Hottentots and Patagonians. only
know that they arc extreme Southern pco-
pie, and that neither are famous as yet for
intelligence. The Cottoutot belongs to the
same category. A Cottontot l take to be a
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-himsclf the property of the
Northern man, for you'll look in vain to find
business which docs not have Southern
noodle at one end playing drudge 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 yet can't get rid of
him without bankrupting himself a prct-
ty cxemplifcation Of the vicious business
circle all round, isn't it?
Ny friends, during the twelve years that
have elapsed since the war, at least thirty
six millions bales Qhrec millions year, of
cotton have been grown at the South At
$50 bale, low estimate this amounts to
sixteen hundred millions of dollars. What
has become of this enormous amount Of
money? What benefit have We derived from
it, and where has it all gone Thanks to
the Cottontot, it has gone precisely where's
it came from, and beyond a mere support,
VIC have derived no benefit from it. Is this
to 60 on forever? Yes, as long as the Cot
tontot policy IS f6yhe ascendant; Because
COTTON is Our mouey rropeuuu Docause VIC
have virtually driven East India cotton out
of the markct-M. Rivett. Carnac, late cot
ton commissioner, having been forced for
lack of cotton business to go into the holy
opium trade-thc Cottontot is again cx-
claiming "Cotton is King" Has he heard
of the new Egyptian cotton plant, the ''Ba.
mia ?n Not he, and if he heard he would
not heed Well, Cotton is King, in sense.
So is tobacco, 80 is tar. provided you have
enough Of either, and it will fetch good
price .Iftar was two dollars gallon, and
| held million barrels, tar would be king
and l would be prince; but if tar ruled at
that price, there would be q corner in tar
in New York, and you and 1 and other Cot
tontots would not own enough to grease a
cart wheel.
The Cottontot is fool in various other
ways-in the mode, for example, Of buying
his goods. There can be no palmer bust
hess proposition than this-that when man
has cheated aud deceived you repeatedly,
common 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 forgive in this case. And what is
true in business is equally true in politics,
is it not Your political lite depends on
your answer to this question. But what
does your Cottontot do? Coming to town
and finding some advcnturer with.a lot of
auction goods or compromise stock. he
quits the old established houses, wcll.known
to him, and spends the very money due to
these houses in buying trash and shoddy
from this adventurcr. Finding himself
cheated again, he simply laughs, and says,
II tell you these chaps are smart, they are
keencrs, they are;" but if the old cstab-
lishcd house so much as disappoint him, he
damns it as San internal unprincipled Yam
An exceptional year comes and the Cot.
tontot actually saves money. What does he
do with it-lend it to his poor and needy
neighbors? Bless you, no. He is fool but
not quite big enough fool for that. lie
wants his money where he can lay his hands
on it at any moment. Tine was when Il
mans word was as good as his bond but now
almost all bonds are three times worse than
any mans word. So the Cottontot wisely
carries this money to bank where he en-.
counters another Southern fool, who pays
him per cent for his money, and then
lends it at 10 or IL per cent, well knowing
when he lends it that he is killing the bust