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Show CAPACITY i)F THII SOUTH TO FEliI 1TSULP., A creat error that the llcimbllcati prcsjos are how luslilling into tho portli-crn portli-crn mind is that the South has not the capacity to feed ikkclf, They find it stralghteneil for food ut this, time, aud therefore, conclude that such .must always bo tho case, if cut off from northern Snir-plies. Snir-plies. The !cvero drought last summer is the cause of the nrcsent scarcity of food at tho Spilth, lvauras Is suffering from the same cause. Tho uorthcrn jwirt of Ohio, n few years ago, suffered from a like cause, and so severely that cattle died for want of provender, No jtart of our widcly-cx'tended country is exempt from such n calamitous visitation. To show that thfc South can proituco tho articles necessary to sustain a pcoplft in war, wo have made the following exhibit from thp census tables ol 1880. And it. is only necessary ne-cessary for tho South, to doublo these llgurcs, to put uudcr cultivation only about one half, the number of acrcit now devoted to cotton and tobacco, and tie-Vote tie-Vote thp other to the raising of corn,-wheat, corn,-wheat, potatoes, &c The follbwiug arc from the ceiisu? sta tistics of 1S50, of article produced in the slave States, that year; Corn, 342,035,011 Buihpls. Wheat...,..,... '37,735,028 " Oats..., 48,419,101 " Sweet Potatoes. . . 33,3i8,290 Irisli Potatoes 0,008,902 Hogs 20.47,7,183 Sheep... 6,278,081 Horses , 2,037,763 Mules " 503,498 Cows 2,615,922 Oxen 838,289 Other cattle...... C.078,454 Hay , 1,058,040 Tons. We have not enumerated the rice, ry, barley, and other products that aro largely cultivated in some of the Southern States. I Wo give only a part-of the yearly pro- ' ducts of the Southern States of such artij clcs-na are required to support a people in j itlme of war, Tho people of thoso States ; jean, if put to, Supply from their own soil jan abundance of the necessaries of life, ! Jwithout bciug dependent therefor on any other cople. Alt they bavo to do to; raako that, certain is. to defoto more of their land to tho cultivation of corn, ; wheat, &c, and less to coltou, tobacco, I . . .Cr - -f"3nu and sugar. Heretofore the Wlton,'rice ahd susar Stales have, found It to be mprp profitable to cultlvato thoso staplcx to the eXclusioir"of all othcrj prbdnctn, and-depend ujon thp nbrthwcKt for, com, tbrfc! flour: . Atd.. That, wast a matter of -choice not 6f necessity Tiio.l-ord'tr stare States Can supply thrf whdld South wUh all tlip torn; pork, and flour it can cdnsuine, and hvo a surplus, Vimnnaii jinqvirtf., - |