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The editor of the Brookchaven (Miss.) Advertiser offers the following argument in favor of raising more corn than cotton:--
We have always been persistently in favor of planting a large crop of corn, even if cotton has to be a little neglected, particularly in times like these, when communication with the Ohio may be cut off at any moment.
Corn is a necessity, but cotton is only a convenience.
A man can live very well without a shirt, but what can he do without whiskey?--Charleston Evening News, May 9.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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