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


family in the house and no money to pu--
chase any, and unl,ss he gave more alton.
tion to his business the family would starvc.
lie needed not her anger or rcmonstrance,
but, keepinY his own secret and most con-
hdcnt Of ultimate success, continued to
work on. When the machine was well nisi,
completed, requiring some triHing essential
to its final finish which he had not, hc went
out to procure it.
This was the angry wife's opportunity,
she went into his room and finding there
the machine, in wrath she seized il aud
crushing it TO atoms she threw the frag-
mcnts into the street. Returning he espied
the ruins, aud gathering them up, he accused
his wife OF the act aud upbraided her for
it. In very spite she admitted the truth Of
tho charge aud justified the act. This was
t.>>~-,- a.
He multiplied no words with her, but took
her by the arm and leading her to tho door
threw her into the street, forbiddug her
ever again entering the house. This done,
he closed the door upon her; nor did she
ever again return to the house or him.
Straightway he went again to work, and in
short time had completed the model of
the spinning jenncy. This be carried to
Peel, who examined it minutclv, and saw
and acknowledged its utility, and :hat it
supplied the great want.
Peel was n wise and prudent man. He
proposed to Arkmight that he should pat
cnt the invention. This was agreed to, and
it was by Peel patented in his and Ark
nights name. This done, he proposed
copartpership t. Arkmiyht in the business
of cotton spinning, aud that this jenney
should be the capital of Arkmisht This
was accepted, and the machine put at once
into practical use.
About this time there was a shipment Of
short stapled cotton to England from tho
United States Of twenty y-fve bales.
/ The cotton gin had proved great sue
cess in America. and the spinning jenny in
England. Then cemrcnced 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 its
fabrication cheapcncd, and 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 the
country know anything of the Nanku cot.
tons-and many others of the cotton cloths
ohSO III uuiNCISdI use tu SAulctICa anu cSDCCl-
ally in the South Of the United States.
In 1915 the cotton raised in the South
ern States was 1900 bales; in 1928, 4OO,-
600; in 1880, 100000; in 1879, over
100000. The wealth accruing TO Eng
land from cotton manufacturing is incalcu-
liable. The wealth from its production in
the South has gone into the hands of the
yankees, and now the nabob planters arc
the poorest portion of the American people.
The yankee in ;entcd 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. He has emancipated tho negro,
and holds the bonds of the government for
hundreds of millions for the money cxpend.
ed in this most philanthropic act, and tho
cotton produced by the emancipated slaves
is taxed to pay these bonds and their accru.
ing interest. When will they relax their
hold upon the negro? Experience would
justify the assertion never, so long as he can
be made profitable, either with his votes or
his labors--W, II. SPARKS, in atlanta
Constitationalis..