The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-04-11

yenient TO permit this duty TO deyolve on
our careful friends, the Yankees. Even
our boat. and hand-spikes for rolling
logs, are furnished, ready made, TO our
hand, and what limerick can possibly be
invented Of which we are no, the purchas-
ers! These are the drains which are im-
poverishing the Souih-ihese are the true
sources of all our difficulties. Need |
add, to further exemplify our excessive III
dolence, that the Charleston market Is
supplied with fish aud wild game by North
ern men, who come out here, as regularly
as the winter comes, for this purpose, and
from our own walters aud forests olten
realize, in the course of one winter, sui.
ficiency TO purchase small farm in New
England.
Oh fe, Gen. McDufie, why are you
not engaged in the great cause oil reform
ing the habits Of your countrymen on
once counted the profit of Cotton-Splnning,
and, to use the language of one OF your
copartners, came 10 the conclusion, that
the establishment you were erecting, would
be perfect mint. You engaged in this
business with great zeal. Why did you
permit the establishment to dwindle, sick
en- and die, purely for the want Of that at
teniion, which you well know is essential
10 the success Of your cotton plantation
Why did you not follow the patriotic ex'
ample Of the Lowells, BOOTS, Jachsans
I Appletons, and Lawrences, OF Bosionl who
after fighting for years with their native
State against The protective system, ant
finding il fastened upon her, did not sloI
10 preach The doctrine Of State resistance
but at once withdrew their capital Iron
the channels Of commerce, which had hiIh
erto yielded them princeiy fortunes, an'
commenced cutting their way into the for
ests OF Massachusetts, damming up rivers
digging canals, and erecting mabulacturln!
establishments, which have yielded to lhei
country tenfold The capital invested il
them, and they that are now living, ar
ENJOYING weIl-earncd fortunes, aud hav
the satisfaction of knowing iha, they CAV
the impulse 10 a svslem which has elcitc,
every energy that the State is capable Q
cxertng.
Had YOU, in your new. born zeal lor man
ufaciuring, mixed a little more pntfiotlsr
with your efforts, you would have take
the pains TO ascertain why your Nauclu>
establishment did not realize the sanguln
expectations of lis proprctors. You woul
have put your o~R shoulders 10 the wheC
and by investing u portion OF your ldrg
planting capital in the concern, with you
known industry, you could not have tale
to build up an establishment, far more ID
cratiye than your planting interest. Thu
itself would have given an impetus I
manufacturing, worth millions 10 our State
Had our respected Gen. Hamilton, in hi
zeal to build up Charleston, engaged i
manufacturing instead Of commerce, wit
/ his known talents, business tact and pei
severance, success would have been Iney
] table. This would have placed him b,
j yond the reach of that whitening storm
e which ship wrecked the fortunes and b,sgh
It ed the prospects of the wsest merchan
d in the world. With his large capital al
I duo attention, there can be no doubt as
a what would have been the result Of his c
c gazing in Cotton Manufacturing in e33
!. Had these two gentlemen, Gen. McDuf
}. and Gen. Hamilton, put their capital IN
e manufacturing in 1888, there is no ,eIlil
T. to what extent it would have changed {
Is investments of the State. Ii would, in
:, probability, have saved the greater porli
h of the large sum los, 10 our citizens by /
le failure of the United States Bank, and
n would certainly have made valuable pI
lie ducers Of many individuals who are n,
m worthless consumers.