SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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I act with energy in promoting the greatest interest of the 
j State. If the Legislature will do for Agriculture what it 
: has done for Education and Internal Improvement, many 
years will not elapse before Georgia will be second to no 
State in the Confederacy. H, 
I.ORD BROUGHAM AND SUAVERY IN 
Georgia. 
OoR attention has been called to a paragraph which has 
appeared in a number of newspapers, in which Lord 
Brougham is represented as saying, in substance, that 
! slavery was forced upon Georgia, while a colony, by the 
j mother country. His Lordship is in error, and the error 
j is one which, in the present state of public opinion as to 
I slavery at the South, may do harm. We are perfectly 
j familiar with the whole facts of the case, having examined 
I the original documents relating to it, in the State Paper 
Office in London. 
Slavery was prohibited in Georgia at its settlement, by 
the Trustees. The grounds of its prohibition, as stated 
by the Trustees, were prudential— not moral. General 
Oglethorpe, himself, owned a plantation and negroes in 
South Carolina, at the time that he was at the head of af- 
fairs in Georgia. One of the motives in the settlement of 
Georgia, was to establish a strong force in a favorable 
position m check the advance of the Spaniards from Flori- 
da. Another was to give a home and employment to 
numbers of white persons in England and on the Conti- 
nent, who were the victims of misfortune. Another was 
to introduce the growth of silk and wine, both of which 
were supposed to require a degree of intelligence not at- 
tainable by negroes. The introduction of slaves was 
deemed incompatible with the ends proposed by thefound- 
ders of Georgia. 
The Colonists very soon ascertained that this prohib- 
ition was fatal to them. Carolina flourished; Georgia 
languished. For years, the colonists petitioned to be allow- 
ed negroes. Instead of increasing in numbers, Georgia, in 
1740, was reduced to one-sixth of its former population. 
The person most influential in inducing theTrutees at last 
to allow the inlroduciion ot negroes, was the celebrated 
George Whitfield. We present an extract from one of 
his letters, as a pleasant theme of meditation to the Abo- 
litionists. “God is delivering me out of my embarrass- 
ments by degrees. With the collections made at Charles- 
ton, I have purchased a plantation and some slaves, 
which 1 intend to devote to the use of Bethesda.” (The 
Orphan House.) 
The Highlanders at Darien, and the Moravians at 
Ebenez ir were averse to the introduction of slaves — 
they constituted but a small proportion of the population — 
the rest were most eager to be allowed their use. Af- 
ter years of petition, in the year 1746, the law against the 
introduction of slaves was repealed. The effect of this 
repeal was magical. All the interests of the Colony pros- 
pered, and its advance was rapid beyond comparison. 
The introduction of negroes into Georgia, instead of be- 
ing a compulsory measure of England, was an act of ne- 
cessity, suggested by the painful experience of the Colon- 
ists. White labor had been tried and found to be practi- 
cally useless in the climate of our sea coast. The African 
alone was found capable of enduring field labor under our 
almost African sun. This chapter of Georgia history con- 
tains a pregnant lesson of instruction It teaches the ab. 
solute necessity to us of the institution of slavery, and. the 
insane folly of those who would disturb it. H. 
Sainfoin. — W, A. C., Cave Springs, Ga. — Our trials 
with Sainfoin have resulted in failure. We have tried it 
in upland and low greund, manured and unmanured, 
limed and unlimed, and in each we stand without suc- 
cess. Sow about 15 lbs. Lucerne to the acre. The seed 
can be bought of the seedsmen in Augusta, at 35 cts. per 
lb. A pine log, six to seven feet long, with shafts at- 
tached, will make a tolerable one horse roller. You will 
never regret any reasonable expense you may bestow on 
the cultivation of Lucerne. Make your ground very rich, 
very clean, and then break it twelve or fifteen inches if 
possible, and sow your seed broad cast. The crab grass 
will come the first year. Mow it as often as it will bear 
it, so as to prevent the crab grass from seeding. After 
the first year the Lucerne will take good care of itself. It 
must not be pastured, but kept entirely for hay or soiling. 
If your ground is in good order, February is a very good 
time to sow Lucerne. 
Southern Land and Labor. — The Weol Grower tf* 
Commercial Reporter of Cleveland, Ohio, contains a 
very courteous and temperate review of our article, 
‘ shall we improve or remove I” The Reviewer suppo- 
ses that slavery is the cause of the depressed condition of 
Southern Agriculture We have forwarded to him our 
articles on the “ Low price of Land at the South” and 
will be pleased to receive his comments upon them. It 
is a sufficient answer to his position, to say that through- 
out the South where the negroes are most numerous, the 
lands bear the best price, and are most in demand and the 
reverse. It is not the character of our labor which injur- 
iously affects us, but the erroneous use of it. The agri- 
cultural system, of which the Wool Grower is an intelli- 
gent exponent, would very soon, to use the language of 
that journal, “ make the South a garden ofdelight.” H. 
IlE'EW I’OUR SUBSCKIPf IONS— 1860 ! 
We desire to arrange^our mail books for the next year 
as early in December as possible, and will be thankful to 
all our subscribers who will renew at once, and send us 
as many additional names as possible. 
North Carolina Dried Fruit. — A correspondent 
writes the Fayetteville Observer as follows : 
“From the 1st of .July up to the 12th of September, there 
was sent off *277, *^79 pounds of dried fruit. Five hundred 
pounds of this quantity was sent to Indiana. About 
S4U00 worth of dried blackberries have been sent to one 
man.” 
The correspondent suggests that dried persimmons 
might be made a profitable article of trade, as they com- 
mand a high price. They are as plentiful as weeds in 
nearly all the Southern States. 
