The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-16

Cotton, pounds l63 H. II
By intelligent farming, improved
methods and liberal manuring, the
yield, in particular places, has been
largely increased, as we have shown.
There is no reason why the yield of
,cotton, hay, oats and wheat obtained in
one county, should not be secured. by
the same means, In every county,
Farming in South Carolina, in other
words, taking into account the low cost
Of the land and the means Of transpor-
ting the produce to market, can be
made more profitable than gold mining.
1t is this already-to those who have
istruck into the new paths, and who un
derstand how TO develop the best quail
tiles of the soil and make natural agen-
cies most effective. There is comfort,
security and ultimate prosperity here In
South Carolina for every industrious
and progressive farmer. But a. Gov
ernor Hagood said, while ''the harvest
IS plenteous, the few"
Why are the laborers few We have
plenty OF colored people. In some few
places it may be difficult to get the
laborerS one wants at the price one is
willing to pay. This is due, we hope,
to the palatable fact that the colored
| people are making money by them.
selcs, or, at least, can make as much by
! working for themselves as by
| working for somebody else. What
people in the South, through
Injury of the white people. This is a
rrl,lo-o., ~ g. - - ,.ro1o,ro I'll -,
Simulated. 1t means only that, where
there are equal political rights and
equal Industrial opportunities, the vel
fare Of the majority Of individuals, not
the supremacy Of class, is the security
and strength of the State. Why then
court emigration.
Whatever advances the colored peo-
pie may make, the white people, if the
improvement be coincident. will retain
their relative superiority. The State
needs that there shall be a hundred
farms giving the largest practicable
yield where there are now ten. This
carries with il, as we understand Gov
ernor Hagood's remarks, the need of
white immigration. To the white IN
migrant South Carolina can offer al
vantages and opportunities such as no
Western State can give. Why do The
immigrants go to the West and avoid
the Soutbt The reason is two fold. ,
They go West because they know what
that section is; and because they arc
misiDformed as to ourselves. To them.
the West, is the land Of freedom as
well as fortune, and this Southland is
still the lard Of slavery. We can east
ly show, by figures that cannot lie,
that there is more money il ceming
here than in going to the West. What
remalnsis to convince them that the
S.uth is q free country-that, as there
is no longer slavery of The body, there
IS no longer a slavery Of the mind. /.
They must have the assurance that. /
when they come here, they will be free
to speak and act as they choose that
they can oppose Democratic candidates
and support Republican candidates
without losing their natural standing in
the community that they can, as to all
men and IN all things, take such u
course as will, in their judgement, be
most advantageous to the State, am
be credited always with holding no
other idea. than to make themselves
safe in their agricultural and mercan-
tile operations. SO far as that success is
commensurate with profit and liberty.
We must not pretend to dictate to
them what they shall think, or in what
way they shall ex press their thoughts.
charleston Courier.
The time has been when we should
have printed such an article. Be
cause up to the Centennial year the
South had either to maintain Demo
cratic supremacy, or submit to outrage
and robbery whereat the world already |
stood aghast. But that state Of CIR
we believe to have passed
away, and not to return. And while
from the heart grateful to the party
which has saved US we are not partiZan
enough to follow partizans into political
Intolerance, or illlberallty (call it what
you wild that was necessary, proper,
and righteous during the decade io65-
1879 but is no longer SO. Let US re-
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