Holly Springs gazette., 1845-02-01
From the Fort Gaines Whig
To The Hon Thomas Butler King:

DEAR SIR:-Those who have known
you long, as linle doubt the deep interest
you tuke in the prosperity OF Georgia, as the
competency of your counsels 10 promote 1t.
A personal acquaintance of some years
standing enables me TO advance this opinion
of your character; aud may authorIse the
call which | now propose 10 make in behalf
of one branch domestic industry, which unit l
recently the whole South has unaccoun!ably
neglected. nave illusions to manuf ictures.
Shrewd observers in other countries have
doubtless regarded the conduct OF our peo-
pie la reference TO this subject. with sentr
ments of mingled surprise and contempt
Exhibiting varieties of soil and OF climate
singularly adapted 10 almost every variety
of crop, ricI ores. water powers and umoer
equal TO every demand, and population
which needs nothing but the direction OF SCI
ence and :he stimulus of reward TO accom-
pish anything within the range OF enter.
prize and art-the present generation, IN all
that leads TO permanent wealth. are nearly
as little Advanced as that which, forty years
ago, delved as we do now, in growing the
cotton plant Such labor was indeed al that
time adequately rewarded. and 10 some ex-
tent iustifis d neglect of those mechanical
processes by which the great staple OF The
country is converted into forms immediately
subServiert TO the use of uan. But even
then, a diversion of part OF the capital and
labor of the country to the manufacture OF
cloth and other fabrics could not have tail
ed TO give large augmentation OF annual
income Now, because of redundant pro-
duction, and perhaps sull more, because OF
the advantage taken of our supineness by
the more sagacious European, tne COTTON
| crop has ceased TO yield remuneratlng prohts
the growers having placed themselves IN
the condition of a ha wker IN glutted mar
! ket, where sellers are always at The mercy
of the buyers and often compelled to submit
to capricious sacrifices.
| The clumsiest" manufacturer Of cotton
| cloth in thr United States is making more
| than double the income Oh the capital invest
| ed that now comes 10 the hands of the plans
yer: and in we'll conducted factories, the
proits are far greater By the aid 0f sultas
| BILE machinery, converting cotton wool into
cotton cloth. an hundred hands will dupl-
cate the value of crops that cost a years Ia
Dor of perhaps "a thousand This is accom-
plished by labor saUing mach1nerg--by orr
dering d, ad matter. acting under he I'M
! nnIses of Natures laws, to substitute the
strength and skill OF man, but with an accu-
racv and despatch TO which ne strength,
senses and violation of man are wholly an>
eouaL The efficacy of labor saving ma
chiuerv in the augmentation of national and
Individual wealth, has been demonstrate ed
bv eveIy writer on political economy, from
Adam Smith down 10 the humble compllers
of our la,ts school books Every Presl
dent Of the United States, from Washington
10 Jackson. has recommended 10 Congress
the pollcy ofso contIiving their tariffs OF du
ties on foreign imports, as TO stimulate IN
this country, The growth OF manufactures
! AT an early period of Mr.. Jefferson's lie, NJ
seems to have been adverse to the esiao
: ,ishment of manufactures in Virginia; bu
suhs ,quently his opinions on this suhJec
n u1dcr wen, radical ch n9e. and no states
D man in the Union has spoken more empaat
icalIv i'm recommending such employment
? of American labor and capital.
D With people SO well known TO be lov y
: ers of money as the Georgians one woue
i suppose thar these teachings OF PhliosoPnl
\ backed by the opinions OF SO many men II
II VIII )se counsels they have been accustome'
: 10 place the highest confidence wou'u U
;. conducive. And yet there are scarcely
| dozen cotton mills In State wLicn mig
,,os, nrofi,,biv employ five hundred Th
I;,Ie S,a,a ot Rhode Island, the whole ex
tent Of whose territory scarcely exceeds IN
size of single county IN Georgn, mas
c. successful operation not less than two hur
at dred ,,;on and wool factories, besides ma
10 nv for other purposes. L need not tell 70
n what are the fruits of such enterprise
IS Rhode Island. All who have visited th
U towns and villages of that enlightened lltlI
ID member of the confederacy know that ne
y growing prosperity has no parallel IN %
~ whole plantation country OF the Soa'n'
De soil. climate and other sources OF weah'
D. our comparative advantages are pre>en
nent: vet we are becoming poor ana ut
neoble rich-results which are readily a
- counted for, when il is seen that one ma
by the use of machinery can accompiis
more than twenty by mere manual iaoof,
Nothing is easier than 10 calculate ne oi
fsrence between the raw material, and III
u Of the various fabrics made of It. One tho
sand mounds of raw cotton may now
81 worth in the market OF Augusta or oaVa
nah. fity dollars--conyerted INTO ehea
u cloth and sold in the same market. the pi''
H. noiph. not fall below three times that sur
r. And this is fair example OF the seiIsH
;. aud TIE baying which ha9 and muss CO
,d ltinuc TO impoverish the planter. Ii IS
ouaIIv. TOO, an example OF tha. augmen''
.o rate Of income, were we:o shlpto ioreis
~ countries cloth, cordage. Sc,. instead oi g
M ton vooI-were we 10 Banufactare o1f -
M ME at home instead OF sending II Ior "a
h. purnose 70 New or Old England. In me
r..a,;a. of the State sufficient crops