The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-03
The South Prospecting.
Memphis Anneal

always on the eve of being blessed, but
is never blessed. The same may be
said OF the South. She has every facil-
lty for prosperity, and our people al
ways see the sack of gold just ahead.
But the South is unquestionably APP
preaching the dawn of an era of pros
perity. The best indication is the talk
about new railroads in various parts of
the South; that kind of talk which
means action in the near future. The
cotton crop for 1879 is over five million
bales, the largest ever gathered, and at
compromising prices. The South is
now raising a larger quantity of its great
staple than ever before, and finding
steady market for it at rates about the
same as those obtained during the two
years from 1858 to 1860, the years when
the crop was largest under slave labor.
That was the period when slavery was
in its fullest development. But now,
after a long and devastating war, out of
which the South came impovished, and
with radical social changes which
brought much disorder, we find that it
Is raising more cotton under free labor
than it ever did with slaves The crop
of sugar, too, was largest last year in
Louisiana than any crop produced since
the war, and nearly as large as that of
1860. These facts prove that the freed
negroes are working just as peacably
and industriously as they ever did when
they were slaves. They show that,
spite of all talk to the contrary, en-
ployers and employed are getting on
very well togather, and that the south
is attempting greater productive activ
ity under free labor than it ever attain
ed under the slave system which it was
so anxious to keep. The present tran
guilty that pervades every portion of
the south is an invitation to immigration.
The State of Arkansas has received
larger accession to her population during
the past twelve mouths than she has for
ten years past. The three last Presi-
dental campaigns have done much to
injure the south. 1t will take years to
efface the ISLANDERS which the Radicals
have manufactured for vile party pur-
poses. When foreign emigrants under
stand the true condition of the south, |
the tranquility of our people, their
desire to obliterate sectional hatreds,
the mildness of our climate and the |
productiveness of our soil, the tide of |
immigration will flow into the south.
We are rejoiced to see that there is a
kinder feeling in the north toward the
south. Talmage, after his visit south,
did justice to our people 2Hd! afste:' IF.
Hatfield preached a sermon in New
York on his Impressions of the Coun-
try and the People" during which, he
said: "The agricultural and mineral re-
sources of the south are immense. Fine
farms can be bought there at prices so
low that almost any man can own one,
and help can be obtained at much lower
wages than iii the north. Young men,
and those having large families, who
with difficulty earn living here,
should by all means go south and buy
farms. It is mistake to suppose that
northern people are not wanted there.
Some are not wanted-those who boast
a great deal; who think the southerners
don't know anything; that all the learn
ing and wealth are in the north; who
go down there to tell them that the
Union soldiers whipped them in battle,
and that black man is as good as a
white man. Snch are not wanted; but
earnest, Industrious, enterprising men
will be kindly received. In regard to
the political situation in the south, so
far as my observation went, there is a
great deal more agitation i'll regard to
the coming election in the north than
In the south. g