Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1878-02-21
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sIi totton and StarYe.
Thg Hon. B. H. Hill, of Georgia,
made ths following terse and pointed
remarks IN speech recently delivered
BY him ii; that State. He said:
Sltell you, to-day, l ca. e not what
seasons may come, what large crops
ypu may raise, still, under existing
conditl. ms, you will ever grow poorer,
whe produce cotton, and they will
ever grow richer who handle it after
it is produced. Without a great
change, the Southern States are des-
tins,i4to become SO many plantations,
). practically owned by the Northern
people, and the Southern people SO
ln..ny hlreling slaves to work them.
Md III this condition you will reap
scarcely rhe wages, and not half the
respect you accorded your former
slaves :.nd yet the very reverse ,'t
ths fate is within 20 r power. I'm
Or tie pr stnt policy the next gen.
Grafton of Southern people will be-
come the poorest, the most powerless
aud the most contemptible.o of earth's S
inhabitants, while under wise poli-
/ 1cy. the next generation of Southern
peepl+ may hscclnr the richest, the
y: ;svple. ,.L.cu desti..y will We
choose?
But, you aek, how can this better
destiny be secured? l will tell you.
| First-Make cotton your surplus
crop. In these Eve words lie the
Samson locks of your future power
Mike your own fertilizers by resting,
cropping, grassing and manuringyour
lands. Thus you become independ.
ent of the guano merchants. Raise
jyanr own provisions. Thus you
.aacglae independent Of the provision
nerrhants. Your cheapest and safest
| hne OF >portation runs from your
own fields and hog pens, to your own
/ barps and meat houses? With nc
debts for your supplies, you will need
no accommodation credits attwo pei
cent. per month. Thus you become
independent Of brokers, cotton factors
and lien merchants. You can then
sell your cotton at your own time. to
your own chosen buyers, and will get
your own money. None Of these
Things can cotton planter do who
plants on 'ledit, and borrows money
TO buy his provisions.
But you say, the Western States
raise provisions 60 much cheaper, we
can make more money by raising cot
ton and buying from them. This is
the teaching Of figures, and greater
| lie was never taught.
| Now l affirm it is cheaper for you
to ralee your own provisions than tc
have them brought from. the West
and given to you at the nearest depot
free Of ostand charges. How is thisi
Lathe first place, 1--we raise FIVE mil
I lions 81 bales efcott,n we will get nc
more money for them than We would
get for one haleof thatnumber. Then
out Of the same amount realized. you
4 pay tor raising the FIVE millions just
double cost of production. Hall the
la:or and supplies employed in rais
ing FIVE million bales of cotton could
be employed in raising supplies with
out reducing the value of the cotton
| crop one dollar. But half this labor
1 woui> raise more than you needed
Tor supplies. You could employ much
of it alao in enric6ing your lands aud
improving your property in many
ways. Then you would come to the
end Of the year with your cribs full
of corn, your smoke houses full o.
meat, your family full Of smiles, your
selves full of independence, and your
p ckets full Of money for investment
A. d how would you invest it? In
cotton factories on the waterfalls
I'd LAS sent all through your eoun,
|,try 10 run spindles. This would
make you independent OF Old and
New England both. Then. also, you
| would mine your own implements Of
hn-bandry, which would make you
independent of Pennsylvania foun-
dries and Massachusetts workshops.
In word, every Improvement would
be built rp in our own country, and
Ill tie profits Of those Improvements
you'd go into your own pockets.
80 q. a, you are now going, making
a.s.on your chief crop, and slavery is
he dcoa Of your children and your
t.u !dr4.ls children forever. A peo-
pie who depend on ether people for
food aud clothing, are and must be
slaves.
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a pLucKY WOMAN Lovely wo-
man sleeps with q revolver under her
p;iiow in Nevada. At dead of night
pIncky little woman in Eureka
| awol,e to 6nd burglar prowling about
hgr room ransacking the bureau.
S5a did not scream. She lay as still
as . corpse and waited until he en-