,
without the help of slaves, was a complete success. One planter
offered to supply me at once with one hundred and forty bales
raised in this way. The ground taken by thee that cotton can be
raised by white men, as well as by colored men, is entirely
correct. A very large portion is every year so raised. I have had
particular information of its being thus raised in Texas,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and North
Carolina. In some neighborhoods thousands of bales are thus raised
within the limits of two or three adjacent counties.

It may be urged that this is upon uplands almost exclusively, and that
upon bottom lands it is not possible, on account of their being
unhealthy.

Two statements will be made to disprove this latter assertion, and we
will then admit it to be true, and prove it to be of no consequence.

The cotton planters, deserting the rolling land, are fast pouring
in upon the 'swamp.' Indeed, the impression of the sickliness of
the South generally has been rapidly losing ground (i.e. among the
whites of the South), and that blessing, health, is now sought
with as much confidence on the swamp lands of the Yazoo and the
Mississippi, as among the hills and plains of Carolina and
Virginia.--_De Bow's Resources of the South and West_.

Dr. Barton, of New Orleans, in a paper read before the Academy of
Science, says:

The class of diseases most fatal at the South are mainly those of
a preventable nature. In another place I have shown that the
direct temperature of the sun is not near so great in the South
during the summer as in the North. In fact, the climate is much
more endurable, all the year round, with our refreshing breezes,
and particularly in some of the more elevated parts of it, or
within one hundred miles of the coast.

Dr. Barton had forgotten that white men can not perform field labor in
the South.

But admit that white men had better work upon uplands,--the crop is
surer, owing to the less liability to frost and overflow; and good
cultivation will give an equal crop. Intelligent Northern men have taken
up exhausted plantations upon the uplands of North Carolina, and, by the
application of moderate quantities of guano, phosphate of lime, etc.,
have carried the crop from two hundred up to eight hundred pounds of
clean cotton per acre; and for the last three years the writer has be