Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-08-21

es great deal o travel TO IT, and loads with good, d,,
Tor each place. II has been established upon the sam.
principle that suggested for the consideration of ,, ~
Ien' IN my last letter Although would not have the
same expense and difficulties encounter vet Nc would
have an advantage In their experience, and the nek
| no~ledgcd Improvements I'm their machinery IT,
Clouds difficulties and embarsssmenis which hung .,o,d
tho eSy introduction of useful manufactures in,o IN.
American Saiea h-ve been disipated aud oyercon. tn,
Wy " ~ 'o P'''s ana ehefprsing o sep Tor
"eIo !" animate uen counirymen and benefit the poo,
Among all the manufacturing elite. mud tov,. I r.
| visited, or expect visit, have no ,,bo,, c, =
| or contemplate "a be, ms with this ul.., l.,
""nsv express myself m the belief TINT il Il, IN, ,
eiediiAblc town. taking all the eircums,,ne.. oC a.,
in'o constellation Of any plac. in ia, lJnion II 80
" "i' '"on ana gratitude for illustou. ANCESTORS
"a" ~ any other Time Of my yet but short life /,
was ~hie was passing through the (or,yodd fsc,o,,
~ "" "en towering heads to tho heavens and In
walking through the busy yet orderly street. Of ,h. ,
"~h' Wy reasons are in few words There mr.. I'm,
'e o' SIX owners Vi mills factories here that cam.
w Wv" "''i means To start business. The rest were
"'enahics ahd poor men-wih other no ans 10 li,.
" oo'an competency, but by the hard toll Of their
nanus "hen commence tn notice particular fac,ori.,
will then specify cases TO verify NV Statement, I -,
must no" he lett To subsequent communication
~ my gratitude Is worth anything to these mon il il.
"'s encenuiy gsen-shough have to do il in the teeth
an Of ungraieiu and unlu. w.rfar. nm Tho
f.rtn
wmdrawing the fostering Of tho Government, f,on
them. and making them prey 4, eor,eni,I n,.,..,- -
'ofeRh lands That rulers should or ef.r t, n,os,o,
anu employment OF foreign factories To our own i.
e"oueu 10 shro US Tor our future fate We hone vet Il,
warn " the o'ow' and save the honor Of the nation More
"h ohoha oi the buildings OF this town. have been pu,
up and raid Tor by tie operatives these mills and
es Some oi them have hne gardens and walks eo,,.,,
cd with them-thus rearing up homes for ,b,,..I, I
children, Tor, Perchancc. evil day. Many of these
houses US passed along the streets night were vocal
WIN music ard Joyous harity There are no lamenta
uons and waings from pcnury and want No bayy,rJ
ace and ragged garments TO add wretchedness To no
rance and starvation. No thieving ordes or bauy snn
make up Inc inmates OF these houses. No. peoor ,ir
tuous happy and intelligent shelter them.eye. her. a
they deserve not only wealth. but the gratitude of ,ei,
country. ~
While passing through Of the factories WINS pon,
cd to three young ladies' over sixteen or eighteen ve,
uge' VINO had from the money they had saved from the
work OF their own hands, obtained enough 10 purchase
lot each, and them u house for their widowed ninth
ers, and depostng all the means moi n.ces,,;
used ior the family, IN the Savings Bank Joseph Smith
Esq, the secretary OF the Association, Informed me tIa,
he'e was hardly week THAT OF the operatives
were not at his Office buy lots or deposit money with
hm Many of the operatives before they came here were
unable TO read write, aud very point of starvation
growing up IN Ignorance and vice. whose condition now
Is changed in all these relations On IN, Sabbath yam
could hardly tell them from the wcahest families and their
deheanor Is every way praiseworhv and conimendable
Inc prudent and industrious habits thus insied into them
prepares the and young ladies at the ages IA
and II to have house and lot for themselves and the
next Thing alter that Is % get married. and by economv
and energy Of purpose, they thus able in few wear,
10 start on their Town hook mistress of the ho,.
and he as master Of factory. Should the proposi,iop
winch made heretofore citizens be adopted IN
commence manufacturing town above Richmond | find
that not more than $4,000 need be paid in-,be rss,
would be made by selling the boarding houses,
hotels, stores and churches after the had been
commenced and confidence in the public MAD had been
secured Besides, than one.half Of the bou,e. in
this place being owned by the operatives there are thirty
eight boarding houses, and twelve hotels could nstanc.
more than twenty towns in New York aud New Jer
sey which were commenced in the way proposed and
could now commence one under less expense, and with
superior advantages.
There five thousand operatives in this plaee on
gagged IN ie factories making about thousand men
women and ehden who dependant upon these e,,sb
shmcnts, directly or indirectly for support and the whole
entire population is kept together Numbering near ,,o
thousand by them solely. Without them the town would
be deserted. Should the Tariff be repealed an, inform
cd by both Democrats and Wings that two thousand ~
these hands would be without employment in two week =
after 1t known. There paid out to these ope,,va
yearly, by the Factories near eight hundred thousand dol
lars the half OF which circulaes among the Farmers f-
their produce.
All the Farmers around the place rich and are max
ing ten times much oil their Farms in propor;jon IN
the capital invested as the Manufacturers do Hundreds
OF them make from four acres of ground and that all
hill, than majority Of do from their three hundred
acres Some OF them from three alone in raising
Strawberries, Rasberrie- aud dewberres, make over
$1,000 profits per year. And this all the result of ,out
two months work. The OF them have their Carriages
and find better market Tor their produce than they can
| in New ofk he Emit II,
rounding yearly in New York. is greater than IN.
entire Agricultural crop of South Carolina and the fri,
aud vegetable crop larger than the Agricultural produce of
the Great State OF Virginia.! do not wish to te,ny Won
but they facts. Slew this statement 10 our Politicians
and then tell them the shop and take
drink of and commence lecture on the immoali,v
of the Tariff and then ask the tenants of dapda
and farms ragged starving pennies and wrech.d millions;
OF the South TO bend their knees before them and suppl
cate Gods blessing their for IT, and they
| will call you simple and untcrrifiod Republicans.
The difficulty lies here, Farmers and planters pro
ducc hardly any thing else but Cotton and Tobacco md
these for foreign consumption the price Of which is
lated by the spectators and Manufacturers Of Europe
But the injury does stop here. BY preventing tho in
crease OF our own Manufactures and the establishment of
towns through hem unable these men
and nJurc at tho tho value and demand of other pc
duce from the soil We without town to create bor,
market for them, and OF the Farmers must sur
~ Oee 'o"S ea"ho' DC erected without Manufactures,
and Manufactures will not be established without being
protected That very clear case. The injury is fa,tb
er extended by the increase OF the growth of Cotton and
the British Tsrf which shuts our Grain for her mar
kes But that makes difference, does 1.-TWO must LEI
her goods come IN here free Of duty. Must we not She
says so, and must submit Ask our Politicians
| SoUTHERNER.
Ioi's'"i 1oodeeo Cr0p.-The ST. Louis Republican
which some weeks spoke Of the growing tobacco crop
OF Missouri ~ promising fully large product AZ that of
last year, las changed its That paper of The o,l
ultno says"Wo arc sorry hear dismal account. of the