Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26

states, all far-off nations, indeed, be-
SIDES those, including to a greater or
less extent all the nations of Europe.
Intelligent labor, let it be noted, does
not, as a general thing, seize upon a
hoe, and, under the blazing sun of the
Gulf States, undertake to develop the
cotton plant; neither will it wade in the
rice swamps for meager wage. But
intelligent labor builds cotton mills,
and, taking the raw material supplied
by different grade of labor, spins it,
weaves it, colors it, adds an hundred
fold value to it, and reaps proper
tlonate reward. In like manner, it
selzes upon the crude material of the
mines, and out of it fashions engines to
pump, to grind, to hammer and saw; it
constructs locomotives to carry to re-
munerative markets the raw material
supplied by it's less intelligent co-worker
OF the fields and forests; and, demon
strating ss all this does the place for
the white man of the South to occupy,
If he desires progress, wealth, power,
and with these the worlds profound re-
spect, what hinders him from yet seiz-
ing upon it to begin in earnest that
true advancement too long postponed,
and yet not too late to realize?
And, in taking this view OF the case,
why should not the two races work on
ward in entire and cordial harmony?-
more especially when never before in
the history of any nation were two
lines of occupation both essential to
general progress more distinctly marked
out, or such as could be more consist
emily made to refrain from interfering
me with the other. Progress for the
whole means progress for every indi-
vidual, if the latter be earnest and in
dustrious; and, for once leaving more
to itself that barren field of politics
where thousands quarrel for months
that one may get some paltry Office, turn
to an earnest development of resources
which, ultimately meaning substantial
power, will in the end enable them to
command what hitherto they may have
been satisfied to wrangle for or solicit
To quit these questions of political
economy, with which trust nave not
wearied the reader, would note that,
in the past, the chief product of many
OF these mountain districts were gaunt,
razor. backed" hogs, which, seldom
fattened there, were collected in drovee
every fall, and with infinite patience
driven to the corn-felds of the East
Tennesseesvalleys. the Hiawassee and
others; and, turned loose in them to
riot and destroy at will, would in the
end take on fat enough to make them
acceptable and salable to the planters
lower down, of the Carolinas and Geor-
gia, when driven thither finally. The
method in vogue was to pur-
chase the field of standing corn
at an agreed price, the hogs
to gather as much of it as they could.
And, perhaps, harder set of chaps for
any sort of fun that offered could scarcely
be found anywhere than these same hog
drovers. On the cars coming from the
coast to Atlanta city on one occasion, a
gang OF them had-as it were taken
possession of the car of which I was an
occupant; and all night long they kept
up IL constant uproar of coarse WITH
clsms and stunning outlaws, hideous to
listen to, yet impossible not to laugh at.
One of their dramatic performances was
travestying Methodist anxious meet
ing;" and carried outin the most reckless
and even impious manner, with PRAYERS
and hymns, one could but know that
their opportunities had been complete
to have educated themselves to every
thing that was better. Interrupted in
their sport by the announcement of
supper, one of them, great six-footer,
on his return to the car uttered most
characteristic declaration: Boys, that
was a splendid supper; I was eating for
fifty cents, but they only charged me a
quarter!"
Besides the considerable amount of
hogs that the mountain districts of
Kentucky furnished to the lowland con-
sumers, great numbers of beef cattle
found a market thence, On foot; while
Central Kentucky and Upper-Middle
Tennessee furnished in the same man
ner great droves of mules for the cot
ton fields of the Gulf States, and fine
horses for all sections. Speaking. of
horses something that, more than hemp
or tobacco, perhaps, might be called the
great staple of Kentuoky-the moral
code in regard to trading is represented
as remarkably loose, every horse-buyer,
or trader, being accredited and compG-
mented with smartness enough to take
care of himself. cali fair in a horse
swap" appeared to be the beginning and
end of any rule governing the matter,
so that whoever presumed to hope for
much, if any, speculation out of these
sharp traders was as likely as any way
to find his hoped-for balance on the
wrong side of the ledger. The "sharp-
est practice" that I remember of becom-
ing acquainted with in this line was
boosted of by the fellow who was the
principal actor in it, and happened in
this wise:
Being the owner of very fine horse
whose only and marked deficiency was
that he had regular "rat TAIL" he had
failed in all attempts to dispose of him
on that account, until accident suggested
and threw in his way the means Of sup
plying the want. A neighbor having
lost fine horse who happened to have
a large flowing tail, it occurred to the
roguish horse-trader that, if he could
somehow appropriate for his own steed
that desirable member. it might be made
themeans of accomplishing to advantage
the long-deferred sale. Acting upon
this idea, he carefully separated it, leav-
ing nothing but the hide, to which of
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