The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-07

ern planter, and the second value, which
represents the annual product of the
labor of this once servile population, so
seriously impaired that the commercial
world at large is as much the sufferer as
the planter.
So seriously has the utility Of this class
of labor deprecated, that the cultivation
of rice on most of the finest river lands
has entirely ceased, and where its culti-
walton is still persisted in, it is only a
snare and delusion, leading on to bank
ruptcy and ruin. With regard to cotton,
the case is different in some respects, for
while as much of the staple is produced
as formerly, the expense for fertilizers
and inefficient labor is so great, that it is
a rare thing to find a planter who does
not belong, body and soul, to his factor.
The demands of this plant in the process
of cultivation are in the highest degree
imperious, the expenses enormous, the
risks from stealage, fire, and other con-
tingencies, increasing from the time it is
picked to the time it leaves the factors
hands, at ten or eleven cents per pound,
and the amount is credited to the poor
planter, against long debt on the fac
tors books.
THE EVILS OF TO-DAY.
The old plantation hands are generally
dying out and the generation that is tax
ing their place are vastly inferior
whether considered as to habits, skill, or
docility. The negro of the present day
regards himself as superior order of be-
ing, who should leave hard work for his
pale faced brother, while he in the
majesty of his sovereignty as an Ameri-
can citizen should not be fatigued by any
further demands upon his time or his
muscle than what is necessary for vehe-
ment discussion of the politics of the
hour, in his daily lounge around the
streets of the villages and towns. But if
he does not work BY day, he is certainly
busy at night, and so dexterous and In
discriminate is he in the indulgence of
his inveterate propensities of klepto-
mania, that the chicken roost and the pig
pen, the store and the private dwelling,
and even the Church of God itself all
fare alike. While these short comings of
the negro have operated very injuriously
upon his own welfare and future pres
poets, and been seriously detrimental 10
agricultural interests, they have not been
without beneficial effect upon the white
people, in this, that it has been the cause
of sending many scion of Cavalier and
Huguenot ancestry whose fathers count
ed their slaves by the hundred to the
plough handles, the work shop and many
other avenues of honorable labor not
hitherto adopted by this class. In other
words, the necessities of the situation
have been the means of dignifying and
elevating labor.
IMMIGRATION.
1t has been owing mainly to the fact
that the white emigrant is indisposed to
work alongside of the negro laborer, that
the South has been Stunned by the tide
of emigration, but the day is not far dis
tant when the people of the Northern
States will no longer turn their faces
Westward, but induced by the new as
poets of the labor question, by our mild
and healthy climate, and productive
lands, will come to South Carolina, and
work side by side with their Southern
brethren. TO such bona fde settlers we
say in Gods name come and participate
in our natural advantages, and help TO
diversity our agricultural system, and
establish factories and foundries. A
hearty welcome and helping hand
awaits you in whatever part OF the State
you may settle. 1t matters not what may
be your politics or religion, Carolinians
are tolerant enough, and brave and gen.
erous enough, to open the Aoodgates of
their hospitality to any man who comes
to assume bona fde citizenship and live
by some legitimate business, however
small may be his beginnings. 1t is only
the political tramp, who comes carpet
bag in hand, scorning honest toll, but
bent only upon making politics trade,
who has nothing friendly to expect from
us. Our plundered and harasssed people
have had bitter experience with this
genus homo; for after stealing from us
all that they can, we generally have to
| feed and clothe them for q time III the
penitentiary.
In spite of all the trouble and annoy
ances incident to the culture, we cannot
| afford to renouncc cotton entirely. The
cotton crop of the South is matter in
round numbers of two hundcrd millions
of dollars, and neither the people Of the
North or the South can we'll afford to co
without it.
DIVERSITY OF PRODUCTION.
But the high cost of production and
the low price obtained for the staple,
renders it imperative, that Carolina and
every other cotton State should not only
curtail the cultivation, but that they
should strain every nerve and bend every
energy to raise every article of prime ne
cessity. We must diversity our products,
encourage grain culture, bee culture,
sheep farming and cattle raising. In
other words, our people must learn to
live on the farms, with all the comforts
of life around them, and not be depen-
dent on other people for bread and meat.
For several years past the bitter lessons
of adversely have been forcing them by
slow but steady steps towards this desi-
rable and sensible way Of conducting the
farm. More grain and more meat are
raised, and the white man works harder,
and the negro less, than ever before in
the history Of the State.
THE SPLENDID WATER POWER
to be found in various portions of the
State is being utilized by the erection of
cotton factories, which affords employ
ment to thousands of our population, and
which will enable US to retain within our
borders immense sums of money, which
has hitherto gone to enrich Eastern mill
owners. All of these factories, whether
located in the middle or up-country, pay
good dividends. The goods are of fine
Quality, and many Of the mills have Or
ders months ahead of their production,
and they always were on full time. It
would open the eyes of some of those WHO
think that every one down this way is