The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-04-15
NUMBER II.

family in the house aud no money to pu-.
chase any, and unl.ss he gave more attcn.
ton to his business the family would starvc.
lie needed not her anger or rcmonstrancu,
but, keeping his own secret aud most con-
fluent Of ultimate success, continued TO
work on. When the machine was we'll nigt,
completed, requiring some trifiRg essential
to its final finish which he had not, he went
out to procure it.
This was the angry wirc's opportunity,
she went into his room aud finding there
the machine, in wrath she seized il and
crushing it to atoms sho threw tho frag-
mcuts into the street. Returning he espied
the ruins, aud gathering them up, he accused
his wife of the act aud upbraidcd her for
it. In very spite she admitted tho truth Of
tho charge aud justified the act, This was
He multiplied no words with her, but took
her by the arm and leading her to the door
threw her into the street, forb1ding her
ever again entering the house. This done,
he closed the door upon her; nor did she
ever again return to the house OF him
Straightway he went again to work, and in
a short time had completed the model Of
the spinning jcnncy This be carried to
Peel who examined it mnutclv, and saw
and acknowledged its utility, and that it
supplied the great want.
Peel was wise and prudent man. lie
proposed to Arkmight that he should pat
cnt the invention. This was agreed to, aud
it was by Peel patented in his and Ark
nights name. This done, he proposed
copartncrship t. Arkmiyht in the business
of cotton spinning, and that this jcnney
should bc the capital of ArkmiSht This
was accepted, and the machine put at once
into practical use.
About tins time there was shipment Of
short staplcd cotton to England irom tho
United States Of twenty-five bales.
The cotton gin had proved a great sue
cess in America and the spinning jenny in
England. Then cemrcnccd the cultivation
of the staple as marketable crop, and very
| soon its growth exceeded the demand, and
the price went down, and the cloth from it's
fabrication chcapcncd, aud the imports Of
the costly cotton goods Of China began to
decline, and not many years after ceased
entirely, aud now only the old folks of tho
country know anything of the Nankin cot
tons-and many others of the cotton cloths
once in universal use IN America and cspcci-
ally in the South of the United States.
In 1915 the cotton raised in the South
crn States was II 600 bales; in 1928, 400,-
600; in 1890, 100000; in 1879, over
100000. The wealth accruing to Eng
land from cotton manufacturing is incalcu-
| liable. Tho wealth from its production in
the South has gone into the hands Of tho
yankees, and now the nabob planters arc
the poorest portion of the American people.
The yankee tented the machine for pre-
pairing it for use he imported the negro
for its cultivation, and he is to day the only
recipient of the profit arising from its growth,
and the values of the negro, who has pro-
duccd it. lie has cmancipatcd tho negro,
and holds the bonds of the government for
hundreds Of millions for the money cxpcnd-
ed in this most philanthropic act, and the
cotton produced by the cmancpatcd slaves
is taxed to pay these bonds and their nccru.
ing interest. When will they relax their
hold upon the negro? Expcricnc, would
Justify the assertion never, so long as he can
be made profitable, either with his votes or
his labors.--W. III. SPARKS, in Ahiunh
CUnstitutiOndHst