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we will have a splendid stand. It looks a hundred percent better now than it did this time last year, and a better season of cotton, I have never seen. I hope and trust a large crop will be the reward for our labour. I have about fifty acres in com...I am eating every kind of vegitable <sic> and have been for some time. I have a fine mess of strawberries very near eveiy day. We will have any quantity of figs, grapes, and at the Russ place peaches, plumbs, and one or two trees filled with ?nectoms?.?221As usual, there was no indication of concern over the changing national
Cotton Production at Clifton
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June 1858
Abraham Lincoln is nominated by the Republican Party of Illinois. In his acceptance speech, he states, ?I believe this government cannot endure half slave and halffree. ?
Bowman, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 17
Even though the Jacksons had experienced great misfortunes, their cotton production and CO ^
that of Claiborne doing well. In June 1858, the New Orleans Picayune reported enthusiastically, ?We yesterday examined the sample of 22 bales of Sea Island cotton, sold in this city a few days since. This cotton was grown upon the plantation of Col. J.F.H. Claiborne and Major Andrew Jackson, on Pearl River, Hancock County, Mississippi and was sold at the handsome price 35, 40 and 44 cents, 16 bales bringing 40 cents per pound; the whole consignment of 22 bales netting to the enterprising planters something over $2250, after deducting freight, commissions, and all other charges.?222
Another bad season of mosquitoes was described in Samuel?s letter of July 18th to his mother: ?If Pa were here now, I think he would have some excuse to return, and pay me a very short visit. Since I am to think of it he has never seen them at their worst stage.? [Letter reference]
politics.
221	Possibly nectarines.