The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-25
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strong, hard business common sense, and
that alone. The end of the struggle at Ap-
pomattox was but the beginning of another
and much more desperate strugge-the OBJ
ject 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 inmost soul-no less. This is tho
new ''irrepressible conflict" which, like the
old, will bring US all to grief, years hence.
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 tho agricultural fool what
[ should call in Virginia the tobacco worm,
but in this State the Cottontot. Gentlemen,
there are Hottentots and there arc Cotton
tots The oxides of years lie upon my geo.
graphic memory, and am little confused
as to Hot!entots and Patagonians. only
know that they arc extreme Southern pco-
pie, and that neither are famous as yet for
intelligence. The Cottontct belongs to the
same category. A Cottontot take to be
person who, growing nothing but cotton, has
consumes; consequently rarely if ever saves
anything, and finds himself at the end of
the year the property of his commission
erchant-himself 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 cant get rid of
him without bankrupting himself. A prct-
ty cxemplifcation Of the vicious business
circle all round, isn't it?
My friends, during the twelve years that
have elapsed since the war, at least thirty
six millions bales (three 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 fo,eyer ? Yes. as long as the Cot
cotton S1dT Is otif rGnsy Sur3p anu Docanse We
have virtually driven East India cotton out
of the market-M. Rivett. Carnac, late cot
ton commissioner, having been forced for
lack of cotton business to go into the holy
opium trade-the Cottontot is again cx-
claiming "Cotton is King" Has he heard
4 Of the new Egyptian cotton plant the ''Ba.
mia ~, Not he, and if he heard he would
notheed. Well, Cotton is King, in sense.
So is tobacco, so is tar, provided you have
enough of either, and it will fetch good
price. sIftar was two dollars gallon, and
/ held million barrels, tar would be king
and i would be prince; but if tar ruled at
/ that price, there would be corner in tar
. in New York, and you and and other Cot
/ tontots would not own enough to grease q
, cart wheel.
! The Cottontot is fool in various other
t ways-in the mode, for example, of buying
) bis goods. There can be no palmer bust
f&6sy proposition than this-that when man
: has cheated aud deceived you repeatedly,
r common sense requires that you shall drop
f 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
4 true in business is equally true in politics,
y is it not? Your political lite depends on
Q your answer to this question. But what
. does your Cottontot do? Coming to town
= and finding some adventurer with,a lot OF
n auction goods or compromise stock, he
a quits the old established houses, well known
n to him, and spends the very money due to
e these houses in buying trash and shoddy
e from this adventurer Finding himself
cheated again, he simply laughs, and says
n II tell you these chaps are smart, they are
: keeners, they are;" but if the old estab
lshed house so much as disappoint him, he
# damns it as san infernal unprincipled Yam
IS kee concern" gts
It An exceptional Year comes and the Cot
e tontot actually saves money. What does HI
:s do with it-lend it to his poor and need,
IS neighbors? Bless you, no. He is a fool ,bu
d not quite big enough fool for that H'
10 wants his money where he can lay his hand
:? on it at any moment. limo was when
ID man word was as good as his bond, but nov
a almost all bonds are three times worse thar
ID any mans word. So the Cottontot wisel.
z carries this money to bank, where he en-
q counters another Southern fool who pay
r. him per cent. for his money, and the'
Of lends it at 10 or IL per cent, we'll knowing
" when he lends it that he is killing the bus
Is ness of the borrower. For what is bank
o. rightly conducted ? Its simply heart,
WI pump, an aemic ram for receiving and fol
IN wardinr the circulation And what q fool Ia