Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-03-07
All Cotton and Starye.
WHAT SENATOR HILL, OF GEORGIA, THINKS
ABOUT 1T.

The Hon. B. H. Hill, of Georgia, made
the following terse and pointed remarks in
speech recently delivered by him in that
State. He said:
| tell you to-day, care not what seasons
may come, what large crops you may raise,
still, under existing conditions, you will
they will ever grow richer who handle it
after it is produced. Without great
change, the Southern States arc destined to
become SO many plantations practically
owned by tho Northern people, and the
Southern people so many hireling slaves to
work them! Aud in this condition you
will reap scarcely the wages, and not half
the respect you accorded your former slaves.
And yet the very reverse of this fate is in
your power. Under the present policy the
next generation of Southern peoplc will
become the poorest, the most powerless and
the most contemplate of carth's inhabitants
while under wise policy, the next genera
ton of Southern people may become the
richest, the most powerful and the most
respected of people. Which destiny VIII
VIC choose?
But, you ask, how can this better destiny
be secured? will tell you.
First-Make cotton your surplus CROP!
In these five words lie the Sampson locks
of your future power. Make your own
fertilizers by resting, cropping, grassing
and manuring your lands. Thus you
become independent Of The guano merchants.
Raise your own provisions. Thus you
become independent Of the provision mer
chants. Your cheapest and safest line of
transportation runs from your own fields
and hog pens to your own barns and meat
house! With no debts for your supplies,
you will need no accommodation credits at
two per cent. per month. Thus you will
become independent Of brokers, cotton
factors and lien merchants. You can then.
sell your cotton at you own time, to your
Own chosen buyers, and will get ycGr own
money. None of these thing; can a cotton
planter do who plants on.,ufcdit, and borrows
m2l!ney TO buy his provisions.
But y,u say, ,tKc Western States raise
moro moncy'by raising cotton and buying
from them. This is the teaching of figures,
aud greater lie never was taught.
Now affirm it is cheaper for you to
raise your own provisions than to have them
brought from the West and given to you
at the nearest depot free of cost and charges.
How is this? In tho first place, if wc raise
five millions Of bales Of cotton, We will get
no more money for them than wo would get
for onc-half that number. Ihcn, out of
the same athount realized you pay for rails.
ing the five millions just double tho cost Of
production. Half tho labor and supplies
employed in raising Gvo millian bales of
cotton could be employed in raising supplies
without reducing tho valuo of the cotton
Drop one dollar But half this labor would
raiso more than you needed for supplies.
You could employ muoh of it also 10 en-
riching your lands and improving your
property in many ways. Th.n yea wonld
como to tho end Of tho year with your crib
full of corn, your smoke houses full Of meat,
your family full of smiles, yourselves full
of Independence, aud your pockets full Of
money for investment. Aud how would
you invest il? In cotton factories on the
waterfalls which God has scut al through
your country to run spndlcs. This would
make you independent OF Old and New
England both Then, also, you would mine
your own implements Of husbandry, which
would make you indcpendcnt of Pconsylva
MIA foupdries and Massachusetts, workshops.
In word, every Improvement would bo