Let us manufacture, because it is our best policy.

Let us go more on provision crops and less on cotton, because we have had everything about us poor and impoverished long enough....

We have good land, unlimited water powers, capital in plenty, and a patriotism which is running over in some places.

If the tariff drives us to this, we say, let the name be sacred in all future generations."[12] Next year William Ellison of the South Carolina uplands welcomed even the low price of cotton as a lever[13] which might pry the planters out of the cotton rut and shift them into industries less exhausting to the soil.
[Footnote 10: Augusta _Chronicle_, Dec.

23, 1818.] [Footnote 11: _Georgia Journal_ (Milledgeville), June 5, 1821.] [Footnote 12: _Georgia Courier_ (Augusta), June 21, 1827.] [Footnote 13: _Southern Agriculturist_, II, 13.] But in the breast of the lowlander, William Elliott, the depression of the cotton market produced merely a querulous complaint that the Virginians, by rushing into the industry several years before when the prices were high, had spoiled the market.