166 COTTON CULTURE. 



First The large capitalist and the joint stock com- 

 panies of Northern cities, who will engage in cotton 

 raising with the same energy, the same skill, and the same 

 generous appropriation of funds which have characterized 

 their operations in coal mines, railroads, oil wells in Penn- 

 sylvania, and stamping mills in the Rocky Mountains. 



Second A larger class will be those who bring some 

 capital, a large amount of intelligence, sagacity, and in- 

 dustry, and who propose to cultivate cotton farms where 

 this shall be a specialty, but by no means an exclusive 

 crop. This class are the best that can migrate to any 

 country, and if they go South in any considerable num- 

 bers, they will soon impose a law of their own upon so- 

 ciety. 



Third A class much larger than either of the two men- 

 tioned above will be the common laborer, the impoverish- 

 ed American, the German, the Irish, and eventually the 

 Chinese, who will engage in the labor of tilling and har- 

 vesting the crop in precisely the same spirit as that in 

 which they have built railroads, tunneled mountains, ex- 

 cavated canals, and removed the fertilizing deposits upon 

 the Lobos Islands to the wheat fields and the gardens of 

 England and America. A majority of them, probably, 

 will be employed by the large capitalists and the stock 

 companies; others more thrifty and self-reliant will, at 

 first, find employment with the small producers, and from 

 this will soon come to be themselves planters on soil 

 which they have earned by hard labor. 



There are certain parts of the cotton growing regions 

 which are especially suited to each of these classes, and 

 this treatise cannot, perhaps, be concluded by anything 

 more useful or practical than a few suggestions to each of 

 these various classes of immigrants, the advice, if such it 

 may be called, being directed, mainly, to such questions 

 as naturally arise with regard to soil, climate, salubrity, 

 facility of transportation, and social surroundings. 



