The daily gazette., 1879-12-31
The Ten Prosperous states.


and weighty that it required several
mules, well packed, to carry them away.
The Ten Prosperous States.
From the New York Sun.
Following the deficiency of the crops
in Europe inevitably came prosperity for
American agriculturists. Blessed with
superabundant harvests of all grains,
and having ready market for them at
| high prices, they are making money;
and the long-looked-for revival Of busi-
ness has taken place. All business is
| conducted on wealth created by the
producer. If the class that produces
wealth is in straitened circumstances,
oil classes are straitened.
| The unprecedented development of
the Northwest, the West, and the South
west, and the marvellous increase of
their population, have often been dis
cussed. But, with unanimity that is
remarkable, our writers have overlooked
the South, or, regarding that section as
unworthy the attention of Northern
patriots, they have scorned to give 1t the
notice that should 10 justice be accorded
to well-deserved prosperity. 1t may
seem bold statement, but the section
that has been neglected by the Republi-
can press Of the North to-day, and has
been for years, the most prosperous por-
tion of the Union, and its prosperity
rests on the most stable basis.
| The States of Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten
nessee and Texas are known to be the
cotton States, since the cultivation of
cotton absorbs the labor of the husband
man in thst region of our country. The
total population of the ten States in
1870 was 8,272,223. The close of the
war found them impoverished. Their
property was destroyed. We of the
North next overrun them with carpet
baggers, who stole from them, interfered
with their State Governments, oppressed
them in many ways. The Inhabitants
of the cotton States waited as patiently
as they had fought courageously, and at
last regained the control of their own
affairs. From that time the onward
march of the cotton belt towards the
most unprecedented prosperity has not
faltered for an instant. The year OF
1873 was prosperous one for them, and
they justly rejoIced over the result
For the year ending on June 80, 1879
the domestic exports from the United
States amounted in value to total OF
SIT, ,093, TIT. OF this vast sum the ter
cotton States, with their seanty popula
t ton, are credited with $162,304, ,250
for their cotton alone. Over 22 pei
cent. of the value of our expectation
was received for crop grown by les
than 20 per cent. of our population.
The Republican press uf the North il
so habtuated 10 describing the people oi
the South as riding up and down thei
lonely roads engaged III their only occu
; pation-except drinking whisky in 10 "
barrooms-of shooting and torturi ms
, colored Republicans, that many thous
i, ands of worthy men in the North reall,
believe this to be true. If, as the Re.
publican press claims. the people of th'
cotton belt did nothing bat loaf in Rrog
geries, and organize and execute "nig
+ ger hunts" they would all starve t,
death. There is an old saw that by hi
l chips you can Judge workm an. 1t i
+ also true that by the cotton bales yol
3 can judge of the work done by a peo
Ile. Last year tina people of the cottol
belt found time to raise over 100000
blaes of cotton for export besides sup
1 plying the Uuited States. 1t is object
ed by the Northern Republicans tina
!, this work, at least the greater part of it
, is done by the co]ored race. Why not
q Do the owners of the farms outside O
all the work that is done on them? D
;, not almost all of them employ labor an
- , supervise il? Because man,happensit
l be black, and works /, cotton field, h
y is entitled to no more credit for simpl
= working than is an Irish, German. @
American farm hand who works in tn
- cornfields on the lean soil of New Ham
shire or the rich prairies of Kansas. Be
. cause the landless laboring class of tn
South raise cotton under the intelligen
e supervision of men who own land, 1t
II not just to call the landowners cruel, OF
: pressive, and murderous, and den
II them credit for the work done. To rea
some articles written by Northern RI
, publican about the labor done on Soutl
e ern plantations, one would be led to be
a lieve that the hiring of man to wor
!, was the dlabolical invention of a deve
= ish Southern Democrat.
e Southerners are represented as hatin
= the North with a deadly hatred IT thi
n were so, they would buy no goods fror
J. North ern importers. They export muc
= cotton and could import merchandis
ifthey wished. What say the Statistics
VI There we're imported into the Unite
IS States in 1878, merchandise, coin, an
bullion to the value of S466, ,872, 846.1
|, this valuation but S31 ,128,811 entered tn
It six Southern ports of Baltimore, Char
Q and Galveston. The direct import
'. through the custom honses situated /
W the ten cot ton States were S14 $50, 18,
e The exports frem the same ports wer
d Sl43, ,2S2, ,S39; or they exported $129 ,992,
IS 656 more than they imported. 1t is SAT
h to state that the balance of trade las
4 year was at least SlO0,00O,0 900 in favor {
9 the cotton States.
!, Evarv ono is entirely WILLING fo he hi