The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-12-30

appear a thousand miles from home. Ii
we find ourselves behind the rest OF tie
world, we are likely to brush up and return
somewhat changed By travel But II we
ind that We are up fully with the age that
we live IN, we see home again with greater
satisfaction, at the thought that, when we
differ from others, we are right and they
are wrong.
Beng a mere listener IN the Senate OF
Georgia Some three wears since, | heard
Judge D, of c.. speak to the fol.
lowing effect:
"Mr PRESIDENT was ID New \ ork the
las; summer; and as ! passed up aud down
Broadway, observing the equpages that
relied by, and tho indications Of wealth and
leisure on every side, the enquiry rose IL
my mind, how II could be that three hun.
dred thousand people existed there, dong
bot little, producing nothing, aud yet enjoy.
ing the Injuries that the rest OF The world
are aiming al! After some speculanuns
that threw little light IN What had puzzled
, me, | went through the commercial part Of
The city there saw q wharf covered With
bales Of cotton. wen, to another, aud
there, again were piles of cotton on a
third, ! found rice aud tobacco. passed
on, aud still found cotton, rice, aud cotton
asain--co;ton every where. Aud said to
mysolf-the wonder is explained-ihese
people live on exchanges. Il IS the ex
change Of our products that suslains them !?
Our great staples feed them, ciolhe them,
, -nd I'll their pockets i
The Judge enlarged with some enthusi
asm 90 this view Of ,anss. ! admired his
zeal Tor Southern interests aud his warmth
10 Maintaining the rights that seemed
founded on Southern productions. lie was
listened 10 With deep attention, and most OF
bis hearers, probably, weut hone with a
coavlcuon that this matter has yet 10 be
set right iha, It Is misunderstood 10 the
mddle aud Northern States, and tLa, the
South is entitled 10 redress for uaa:ou dis
regard where deierence aud gratitude are
due to her. Ii certainly Is not dsa greea
bic to the PRIDE Of q Southern man, to think
that great benefits are conferred BY tbe
South, even if they receive 10 ac.ino leds.
ment.
1 The speech made lasilag IMPRESSION Cd
NY mind. once gave an account Of Il to
a Trend Of niue, planter, who frequ-utly
i visits The North IN the summer. lie smIl.
ed, aud said sAot shall Tot ropeat-but 4,
led me 10 state the case repeatedly stnce,
very much u the language OF Judge D,
TO such scquaIniances as have made 10
travelling, tina, ! nigh, hear the remarks
winch It would elicit.
| snail give YOU those Of Boston man,
/ @ho iateiy came 70 rue $780,, --4..s~
/ was 10 New York.
NJ. York subsisiIng on The products
Of the South !" he exclaimed Philedel
phla and Boston, too Of course Ii that be
true, II would be we'll to enquire chat sus
tanned Us ten years ago, when the crop Of
cotton was ab0u, one hall what II DOW is -
g al we lived upon twenty years ago, when
the crop wns scarcely q fourth land how
We lived fifty years ago, when the prico Of
cotton vas less 80 value than The crop of
green peas 10 1871 there wsre mol orc
thousand bates OF cotton exported from all
the United States. Yet, a! the close Of the
/ as, century, New York vas an IMPORTANT
( place IN relation to the rest OF the Union,
probably as much so as COW, # we make due
I allowance tor the effect Of new canals IN her
oau State. There we're great fortunes
TOO, here II those days. The eqmpage'
/ zero even more spendld than nov. Pro
badly there IS 20 establishment rev 10 New
! Iurl. equal IN magaia-ence to several tia
existed here ct that Ine, They belonged
too, 70 pec5.e who had never troubled them
selves about rice, or tobacco, or the ludIst
,ha! was oacs raised 10 South Carolina
Ba, hero was a grea, trade here 10 co:;c'
produced IN India aad manufactured thore
yielding, perhaps, greater profit than cny
such business nov. A great change ba
taken place sIEce, the cotton beng now pro
dlced 10 our Southern States, and chlefy
manufactured a, The North. i! curiog
iact that this change has been brough
ahou; by Inventions, for which toe South &
principally Indebted TO others.
"l'lrs, came the Gotten gin, the lUyCn
non OF Northern man. Without this, 4
you wei! knox, II would be impossible t
prepare the presen! crop for market
Then came tie invention Of the po%o
loom aud other Improvements in machinery
which reduced the cost Of manufacture 6
so low that manual labor, cheap as It IS 4
lGdla, was completely ouldouc, and sc ar
enabled 10 send back TO that region, and 9th
er q;ariers Of the world, millions Of yard
Of cloth made from our Southern cotton, an
thus extend The cultivation Of il.
al IS supposed By some that the improve
r meets 10 machinery which have led TO hi
are due almost entirely TO English inyen
ton. Il you investigate this subject yor
Yltl find tbal, suce the aitentloa Of GU
Northern States vas turned to ,nanuiac
lures, a lull share Of these inventions ha
been produced by them; some of the mosllm
pouaui Of them aimo5, simultaneously will
those 10 England. TIE result Of thea al
IS, that cotton cloth IS nov made and s1lt
for considerable less than II cost twenty iy,
years ago merely TO weave II. Take, 70
instance, the cotton shectlng, or the drlllu,
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