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j ness to hills and mountains covered with snow from four 
to eight montiis in u year, adequately accounts for the 
I ■ chilling “northers” ofTexars, and tlie like (dianges of tern- 
t' perature, only lessdisagreeahle in Oeor' 2 :i«. Such a climate J 
I I has somewliat peculiar ugrieulturul powers, and natural- j 
I ly develops some peculiarities in its most jnoductive lu- ! 
r bor. These peculiarities arc worthy of our best consider- ! 
j ation. j 
The first European settlers in Georgia liad a deep pre j 
I judice against negro slavery and hoped to jtrosper bettci' j 
S without it, (hatj did the Carolina.s and Virginia vrith it. I 
t Kut tlie climate of all the southern part of flie jirovince } 
was and is adapt«rd to the production of tropical jilanls in j 
the cultivation of wiiicti wliilc laliorcrs were found less j 
valuable than blacks on many accounts; and slave labor j 
was finally introduced, and established bylaw', more from j 
necessity thatt choice. Xor have the recent jirogress in i 
agricultural science, and the unprecedented exodus of ! 
emigrants from Ireland, been sufficient to iniro<lucc Irish i 
upon the now deserted sugar plantations of Jamaica. 
While millions of industrious immigrants have settled In 
the Northern States atid Canada from Europe, the planters 
of the British West Indies are without laborers, and trying | 
hard to remedy tlie loss of their slaves by the purchase of j 
('oolies from China. 
These facts are instructive, as proving how much cli- 
mate has to do with systems of labor, and the di.siribution 
of laboring people. 
Something like half of the year, wiiite persons can labor 
on plantations licre as well as in finy country, even in our j 
most Southern States, This fact is impoitunt ; for as whites 
become acclimated, and accustomed to Southern field 
work, and as their nunibers atigment much faster than 
blacks, it is obvious tijatthey v/ill extend their indu.stryto 
the production of all the staples of the South, 'i'his be- 
ing a natural result of an increase of population, i 
and the inevitable concentration of negroes upon [ 
large estates, as the country grows older, it is time ' 
to cultivate a good understanding between botii kiiids ofi 
agricultural industry. They are not antagonistic, no more | 
than the facts that one mui! eats inead arid v/earsa shirt ! 
make him the natural enemy of every other man wlio do* j 
likewLse. Let all be indu.strious wlio will, that ail may ' 
have a pdenty of both food and raiment. We need a more, 
liberal and patriotic feeling to encourage alike both white j 
and colored people to create more tiiun they consume, that 
the wealth and general improvement of the South may ex- 
cite the admiration of mankind. Advantages of climate 
and soil avail nothing unless intelligence and industry 
use them for v/ise purposes. The most valuable natura! j 
resources are often sadly abused, or misused, by an o\ej j 
desire to command at once benefit.s which properly belong ! 
to future years. It is the part of wisdom to look ahead, | 
and see the condition of things, and esptciuily of humai; I 
society, after one or two generations have come and gone, 
cultivating the land as we culti'.utc it, and illustrating itj j 
iheir labor, morals and institutions, the principles we now 
teach by precept and example. Partial and one sided 
vie'ws of grave subjects mislead thousands to the serious 
.-''jury of themselves and their posterity. Man ever rnis- 
takcshls true interest when he fails to regard the ttiteresl.s 
of otlier.s dear to them as his is to himsell, 'i'be tme policy 
is to harmonize all interests by earefully avoiding ex- 
tremes in every dir(;elion, 'I’be world whs niode for all 
of woman bom, not for a favored few. 
'I'ime, climate, and tlie natural increa ,<■ ol' .',c 1 ;ui/k‘i)i 
tiimily, to .say notliing of the wi/nderlal j»r(»gt'e!-,sof.seien- 
ence and art, arc tnuking rafjid changes in Ar.erican so- 
ciety. 'I’be census of , 'Missouri, whic’n has just, been lal.ej), 
indicutes ve,i y forcibly tlie < liange. in ag: ii'iilturu! i,,i!>or 
nov/ going on in that liirming rather tlian )hi : St:it> 
It lias a total [lojmlation offll“2,“0b, of whoi'; an. 
wiiiies, ’Ki'rl free hhadrs, and hiv«rt. 'Mn- 
increttse of the white population in -ix ye^i >. '. a., been 
over tbii ty-eiglit fter cent., or u !iil<‘ .I'e increase 
of tlie slaves bas been 1 nr only a fVartion ‘'n.er two 
jier ceiit. 'J’wo r<)unties return no hiv»*>, ; tv.ei tycoun 
lies retitni only l.bOt) altogether, the liiglast leiiehmg 
only ninety-.six, and the lowest bur eiglit, I'p to tin, 
year JH.'dJjthe increase of the slave pnpiilutioj; in rdi.ssotn i 
w'as rapid and remark. ilde, but the iiierea-je jCenis Eiow to 
be as effectually cheeked there as in Ifelawarc ar.d Mary 
land, 'i'his fact, taken in conn<'Clion with tin* comfmra 
lively small number there, and tlic great number of whites, 
seems significant of a change in the fiinunes of the State 
A letter from Jefferson city, the capital, dated, February 
fitli, to the St, Louis Demoerfd, says : 
“Large slaveholders are now selling out their lands in 
all quarters of tlie State, arid ]>reparing to move to Texas ; 
Olliers are ofiering their lands for sale, and negro buyer 
are traversing the .State, buying tip negroes for ih.e Soutit- 
ern market.” 
Even in upper Georgia, w’here e.otton i.s grown with 
le.ss facility than nearer the sea coast, lUrming Ituidr. arc 
almost given away by their owners who are anxious to 
remove with their servants to parts where the labor of the 
latter will pay better, 'J’hc liigli price of cotton and sugar 
operates as a powerful attraction toward the lami and 
climate best adapted to their production, V'iew tlie plant- 
ing interests of the South in whatever light we u\ixy,'pro 
is its most remarkable feature. Soon the “.'.it! of 
slavery” v/ill be entirely forgotten, as the lav, s of climate 
ard ofliUinau industry arc studied and understood 
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IJ KNJCJ'iTS OK A(;inci — 
'!'he Soiilhcrii f'lilli vator, 
}>y:\H Cr. i,'riVAToa — Not havin'r jicnned a:', article for 
your column's for overtv/o years, I liave concluded to-day 
to .'•end you a coinmunic'ition setting forth the many bene 
fits that liave inured to rny home from agiieu'turel reading, 
and as your paper stands, deservedly, lorcinost in nearly 
all Southern tigricultural libraries, it will be undeistoixS 
that whatever of benefit or advantage I i.avc der;'/eri iw 
mainly attributable toils columns. 
I am a farmer — raised so — and the xor 'if a farmer, 
though my father was never very .Mieev .u-' in this de- 
partment, and consequently 1 grew up .strong in the be- 
, lief that all farming was but another name for drudgery,, 
and that there was nothing enlivening or attractive con- 
! nected with it. 'i’hu.s, when I began, I embarki^J in it, not 
I with any pleasure or delight, but becau.>e 1 c^^Ktld .v.-e r,t> 
I other goo<] opening for a start in business. For several 
years, 1 plodded on in the old beaten ir.'jick in vrhich I hadi 
I been reared, and seldom attempted any experiments o* 
advances in my line of business. About this time, ? f>e- 
carne encumbered v/ith an old crazy set of nnlls, which ? 
thought, by carrying on in connection v/ith the 
v/ould enable me to live, and thut; my little foc'.e 
