Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-08-02
Rifbrnoi,a Dailp Iubie.
SATURDAY MoKNINs, AUGUST 8, is.s.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CAROLINA.


The lsst "souihern Review" contains an article ON the
agricultural Prospect, OF South Carolins, her Resources
and her policy which Is attributed to the pen OF Dr.
Reynod Of that STATE IN which the extension OF manu-
features advocated with great force and energy lie
ssysi
almost oil efforts for the moral advancement OF poor aud
scattered population, and compares them with the ine;
ties afforded by thriving and villegcs Inhabited
and surrounded by an industrious and happy pc'pc,
will that ~hai.Yer tends 20 improve Inc pa
s,cal condition Of man. must renders him more COM
Portable. conduce small degree. TO the Improvements
Of his morals Let those then, VINO build up msnuiae-
tories South Carolina be assured, that while they are
EXPANDING n system that will bung pecuniary profit TO
themselves. they are putting IN operation moral ma
chine, which. In proportion as At iae'as anu
tho means Of subsistence tends most eiectuAy To per
act the atom, and elevate the moral character OF
. large portion %! our people.
Ts.re nothing new in the idea OF establishing
manufs ctoties south Carolina The policy has hsd IT'S
advocates ior long p"rcd OF iimc' bit Psricu'aiY
within the last thirteen There are ateady III ihs
State fifteen and three small ~oolsen iaciSiits
Tn. mills require the labor OF go operatives and
consume near 900 bales OF cotton. They are wor
he'd partly by white aud partly by negro or slave labor and
OF them, at least are doing very p'oh'aOe ou';
, is some What surprising find this late day, men
OF eenee eouiendng that negroes Incapable OF
becoming useful operatives IN cotton factories ms no
lion be based upon the Ijea that ~ the machinery
an cotton factories j. Vt complex arrangement and has
required the highest OF mechanical genus 10 invent
it, superior skill necessarily required tor its mnnas nen'
however,
that any negro ordinary cepaeiy may be taught IN
few weeks be expert Ia any part OF cotton factory
There are several factories IN Tennessee operated
entirely by slave labor-,here not being white nan IN
the mill but the suporinIendanis OF these factories the
blacks DO their work respect as well as could be
eapcc ted from whites; indeed, SAID a oil oNeseers
who have experience IN the matter give deelueN prefer
ence TO blacks a. operatives.
here cannot be doubt that the spinning OF yarn and
the manufacture OF cotton CLOTH - capable OF econ
ing most important and profitable business IN South Car
IL
are capable o converting 1893 bales OF cotton. 3!5 10,
10 the bale into cOth-sbOut pa bales Ia tie hand;
thus adding $40 to the value OF each bale How Oh
yousy with interest would IL Se 40 ~ 10
repd our raw cotton England to be returned osua
burss taxed from 6U $50 per bale, as was the case
formerly; when the same con he converted INTO c'h IN
the immedia. ncichbaJoc of the place ~ which grew
for uue-lour,h OF tie sum How equally imp"iue Is II tor
u. now while complaining that csei'al employed an d.
recting the labor STATE Will not Sy more man
, per cent. send our raw cotton To Europe 10 Se
.pun into ynrn adding from forty dollars iiy dollars
~ the value of bale, which Yields the Eah'e' OF "e
IIsror after paying the expenses OF transpcTauon iI'
Sl2 to IS only thus paying IN double transportation
and foreign abVT tour times the amount
that would do the same Thing by the la1os
ID our negroes. Two hundred thousand bales OF Anne
mean cotton every yesr wrought into yarn IN Eng
land and thence shipped Germany, ct gain OF ut east
twenty millions OF dollars 10 England. Why canno, We
e.in some Of those miionsl Why should we sesd fsw
cotton to England TO be there wrought Into yarn and
thence sold 10 Germany Why shall work COT
ton into warn rud sell the German II will be chea.
per to them without the cost Of intermediate uans
portsuon from here &c England, and thence to Germany
Germany desires be independent Of Great Dnia'-4c-
sres intercourse with this counu, re exports OF
yarn from England Germany has inciessSd !''n
1852 TO lS4l-from million two hundred thoGs.Ei
pounds sterling in value, million AMI hal-neaTy
hundred per cent All this thirteen millions o. dollars,
like the other tweaty millions, Is just much English gam,
which ought be American. The spinning ct yarn and
the OF coarse cloth belong egatey
to the Southern States They compete with any eoan
nv in the world the department OF Manufactures, and
will possess monopoly wherever the proPe! efts are
made TO acquire IT."