The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-15

-kloHQa, Ge0rg1a, LOUISIANA, M1BSlSSipp13
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennesl
aee, and Texas are known as the cotton
3 States, since the cultivation of cotton, abb
: serbs the labor of the husbandman & in
that region Of ,ourl country. The total
population of the ten States in 1870 was
S,22, 2,22SS. The close of. . the. war found
them Impoverished. Thsir property was
destroyed. I Weof the North next oysr:
ran them with carpet beggars who stole
from them, fntsIfered with their, State
G0yenments, oppressed them in many
ssways. Yhes Inhabitants ofsthe. cotton
States waited as patiently as they had
fought cdurageonsly and at last regained
the control of their own affairs. From that
5tima the eonwafd march of the cotton belt
3 toward the most unprecede tented prosper;
ity has not faltered for an Instant. The
: yearof3 1873 was aprosperous onefor them,
Nand thgy justly reioiced over the result
For the year ending on June SO, 1879, the
4 domestic exports from the United States,
! amounted in value to q total of $7l7, ,098,
ut. OF this vast sum the ten cotton
Estates with their, scanty population, are
credited with $162, ,304, $50 for their cotton
alone, Over twenty-five per cent of the
%al1e OF onr exportat tion was received for
- crop grown by less than twenty per
cent. Of our populations b !,
The,R Republican press of the North5is
3 so habituated to describing the people of
Isthe South as riding up and down sfheir
lonely, roads, engaged in their only, oc-
Z cupatiou drinking whiskeyg in
low barrooms-of shooting and tortu5ing
.colored Republic that many thousands
/ OF of:Worthy men in the North really be-
lieye this to. be true. If, as the Repnblit
can press claims, the people. Of the cotton
belt did nothing but loaf in. groggeries,
and organize and execute ssnigger hunts"
they would salI starye tosdeath. There
rs an old saw that by his chips you can
Judge aWorkman. It Is also true that by
s3the cotton bales You canjudge of thewnrk
done by apeople. Last year the people
iof the cotton belt found time to Iaise
B over 4 600, ,000 bales Of. cottonlfor export,
besides supply yirg the United States. II
Is objected by the Northern Republicans
sthat this work, at least. the greater part of
III, Is done by the coIored race Why
notf Do the. owners Of the farms outside
of the cotton belt do all the work that is
done on them Do not almost all of
them employ labor and supervise it Z
sBecause g man happens to be- black, and
works IN 8 cotton. field, he is entitled to
no. more credit for simply working than
lis and Irish, German, orAmerican farm
hand who works in the cornfelds on the
! lean soil of New Hampshire or the rich
pfairies of Kansas. Because the andless
laboring class of the South raise cotton
under the Intelligent supervision of men
whoown land, it is not just to call the
landowners cruel, oppressive, and murder
5 Gus, and deny them credit for the work
done. To read some articles written by
q Northern Republican about the labor
done ON Southern plantations, one would
be led to believe that the hiring of man
to work was the diabolical invention of
Il deYilish Southern Democrat. 81
g Southerners are represented as ha.
ting the North with q deadly hatred. If
this we're 80, they would buy mo- goods
from Northern importers. They export
{ much otton, and could import merchan-
: disc ifthey wished. What say the statis-
stics2 There were imported intothe Uni:
TED States In 1873, merchandise, coin, and
bullion to the value Of $46e, e,S72, ,a46. OF
thissa valuation but $31, ,128, ,Sll entered the
aix Southern ports of Baltimore, Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans and
Galveston. The direct imports through
the Custom Houses situated in the ten
7 cotton States swere SAL ,l83. The ex-
ports from thasame ports were S148,282,
839 or they exported S129, ,092,65 more
than they imported. 1t is safe to state
J; that the balance oftrade last year was at
least 500, ,000, 900, in favor Of the cotton
sStates.
Thepresent year has been the most pros
{ porous eyer known in the South. Not
IUnlys shsS6s e cotton States made large
crop. .estmhted by competent authority
mt 500, 900 bales in excess of last year,
but the p{icef obtained is larger. The
crop Of. 1873 brought an average of seven
cents per- pound. This years picking is
selling fsr eleven cents per pound.
I.must be remembered, when Judging
.ofsthe probable future of the cotton
Estates, that they constitute the only ex-s
tent Of cotton land in the world where the
plant can be proftably cultivated; that
where cotton cloth is once used by peo-
pie, 1t is never, abandoned land that as
long as the human race increases or trade
;As3elops, there is NO such danger of an
lGFer-production OF cotton as there Is of
wheat. All countries can grow bread.
sstufis. No other. country can grow cot
ton. The machine recently invented by
Nr. Clement of Memphis, must also be
taken into consideration. This machine
sis.so simple that the stupid labor used in
jihe South can manage it without difficult
4ty. The, invention enables the planters
Ito spin, at small expense, theraw cotton
Sinto threads. It is said 10 clean the seed
here thoroughly than the old ginning ma
yhines, and Il is estimated, if 1t be gener.
Ally introduced, that it will enable the
aplanter, to net 25 per cent. more On his
1ntton, while the money paid for spin
ming; instead of being paid to English
sand Northern spinners, will be paid to
the laborers Of the South. This machine
7of Clements will probably create an in
sdnstriai revolution in the cotton States,
greater in extent even than was accom-
'psished BY the saw gin, patented by Eli
Whitney in 1874.
5 Thepeople fthe cotton belt have come
;out from the desolating gloom created by
.agreat and unsuccessful war, which over
Snrned the previous condition of society
and the relations of the.two races. They
;1e 6nainly .feconciled the colored peo-
nle "a the existing condition of affairs.
T. - Il .' 80