Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 24, 2025
If successful, the products for a year might be set down at two hundred thousand dollars; and should cotton appreciate, the return would be still greater. Leasing the Plantations. Interference of the Rebels. Raids. Treatment of Prisoners. The Attack upon Milliken's Bend. A Novel Breast-Work. Murder o four Officers. Profits of Cotton-Planting. Dishonesty of Lessees.
His love for Cicely appeared the only thing for which he needed no suggestion; and even that possessed an element of childish dependence that would have seemed, to minds trained to thoughtful observation, infinitely pathetic. The spring came and cotton-planting time. The children began to drop out of Miss Chandler's school one by one, as their services were required at home.
There were touches of color in the head kerchiefs; there were sounds of songs as the people worked, not gay songs of the evening, but some repeated line of a hymn, to steady the patient feet and make the work go faster, the unconscious music of the blacks, who sing as the beetle drones or the cricket chirps slowly under the dry grass. It had a look of permanence, this cotton-planting.
When it was found that cotton-planting pure and simple, with ignoring of politics, resulted in heavy taxes for the planter; when to the first numbness there succeeded the active smart, the whites betook themselves to the resource which in most States soon proved adequate, the ballot, and political combination.
My four months of cotton-planting was an experience I shall never regret, though I have no desire to renew it under similar circumstances. Agriculture is generally considered a peaceful pursuit. To the best of my recollection I found it quite the reverse.
Cotton-planting was very profitable under almost any management, and especially so under a prudent and economical owner. Being thus profitable with slave labor, it was natural for the planters to think it could prosper under no other system. "You can't raise cotton without niggers, and you must own the niggers to raise it," was the declaration in all parts of the South. Official Favors.
Thus, even amid the roar of cannon and the confusion of war, cotton-planting, as a free-labor institution, is beginning its infant life, to grow hereafter to a glorious manhood. Lastly, the great, decisive measure of the war has appeared, The President's Proclamation of Emancipation. This also has been much misunderstood and misrepresented in England.
For the time of cotton-planting was coming; the gray and drizzle of December was past and the hesitation, of January. Already a certain warmth and glow had stolen into the air, and the Swamp was calling its child with low, seductive voice. She knew where the first leaves were bursting, where tiny flowers nestled, and where young living things looked upward to the light and cried and crawled.
The next morning, as he was returning from the post-office, Westerfelt met Peter Slogan riding to a field he had rented down the road, and which he was getting ready for cotton-planting. Slogan was astride of his bony horse, which was already clad in shuck collar and clanking harness, and carried on his shoulder a cumbersome plough-stock.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking