From ihe Soulh- CHolmlGn. TO THE COTTON PLANTERS.
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The Cotton Planters are perhaps the most uncalculatng portion ot the human family who can pretend to civilization. There never was a moment when this fact was more stri- kingly exempifed than the present; and it is melancholy to reflect how many of them must be irretrievabIv ruined, and how many se- rionsly injured, by their own folly, indepen- dent of the many other powerful causes at work to produce the same effects The Plan- ters cannot realize from the sale of the pre- sent crop of Cotton more than 1 cents net per lb., the crop round. It is admitted to be very doubtful whether they will do better with the next, or any future crop; and il is pretty certain that cotton will never sell for any length of time hereafter, for more than 6 cents net. Yet sec the prices which Planters are giving for everything they buy, and at what rates they suffer themselves te be allafed into debt At public sales on twelve months credit, prime negroes will command $500 |; fer mules they will pay as high as Sl00; ! and for everything else ln proportion. And they de this without the least reflection, sim ply because they have given as much or more heretofore The question is, how are these things to be paid for; or Il paid for already how is the purchaser to be reimbursed ny planting cotton, or any other crop We know ols fhc expense ol every hand on cotton plantation may be estimated al e23 per an-

 nn-eyen to lhose who purchase no provi- sions. II any one doubts this, let him sci down what he has paid out for overseer rages. Doctors bills. haggtng, rope, eon' ssl,. nails. clothes. blankets, hnts, shoes mules. wagons, gears, hoes, axes, locks blacksmih- and carpenters bills. &e. &c. aad divide lhe amount by lhis number o hands. | have never got oil under S30 pei haul myself

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