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The South-grain growing.

The Richmond Examiner publishes the following extract from a private letter, written by an intelligent gentleman residing near Yazoo City, Mississippi:

‘ "We have health, and an abundance of the necessaries of life. The crops were never more promising. Of cereals, twice as much, and more than was ever made before, will be raised. We are fixing for a long war if Old Abe desires it. All of our planters are raising more or less corn for the Army, some as much as thirty acres of our rich alluvial lands, capable of producing 2,000 bushels. They will starve us, in a horn. We have been buying their produce because it was more profitable for us to raise cotton and sugar; but now hey will see. There is nothing that we can't beat the Yankee at, except making wooden nutmegs and bragging."

’ Every word of this is true. The South can feed and clothe herself, and if the rest of the world can dispense with her cotton, let them make the experiment.

The Daily Dispatch: may 22, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 22, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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