. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. urevery sea; yielding the richest of cattle feeds, it willyet dot the hills and valleys of the South with amillion flocks and herds, and so restore our fam-ished old fields to virgin richness and beauty;our manufacture of cotton, now only begun, willalso grow in the Piedmont South until the hum ofour spindles shall be heard as far as those ofEngland herself; and the Panama Canal will soon forthe first time open full the doors of the Orient to ourcommerce, and Southern industry will throb afresh,as if new b


. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. urevery sea; yielding the richest of cattle feeds, it willyet dot the hills and valleys of the South with amillion flocks and herds, and so restore our fam-ished old fields to virgin richness and beauty;our manufacture of cotton, now only begun, willalso grow in the Piedmont South until the hum ofour spindles shall be heard as far as those ofEngland herself; and the Panama Canal will soon forthe first time open full the doors of the Orient to ourcommerce, and Southern industry will throb afresh,as if new blood had been poured into its , indeed, shall we have a section sunny inclimate, in people, in prospects; we shall add tothe chivalry and courage of the Old South theprogress and prosperity of the New—and in thecoming literary awakening, some more giftedauthor will at last write the real Epic of the Cotton,and in American letters the Souths own snowyfields will become as famous as New Englandsgifted sons and daughters have made the ice fieldsof the colder North. 7Fn 9;d47.


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