Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-08
From the Philadelphia Daily ReiH41he'
Manufactures at the SOuth---the Tariff.

The advocates of a protective or inciden-
tally protective system of duties upon foreign
manufactures, put it upon the ground of de-
tending the labor Of our own people against
the destructive com petition of the pauper
laborers of Europe" The workingmen of
Europe, they say, are compelled by their ne
cessities TO sell their industry TO the capital
ist at a rate so low that the product comes
into our market at a price so reduced, that
the cost Of the foreign article TO The purcha-
ser here must be increased by custom house
duties, or our own manufactures will be
driven from employment, or compelled 10
accept wages reduced to nearly tie
starving point. Assuming the truth of this
statement, and conceding the obligation Of
protecting our honest free industry from a
rivalry SO fearful, and a fate so depiorable,
come from what cause or quarter it may, we
ask attention to a few facts and reflections
which bear with none the less force upon
the same subject, because they are not gen.
orally perceived and a~cknowled ged.
BY the census of 1910, it appears that
more than
One-ffth of all the cotton factories,
One-fourlh of all the metal and castings an
nually manufactured,
One-third of all the FORCES, bloomcries, and
rolling mills,
One-sixth of all the bar and rolled iron annu-
ally produced,
One-fourth of all the persons employed in
the manufacture of iron, including mining
operations, and
One-fnth of all the capital employed in manu-
features of every kind in the Union,
were found in the slave States! Recollect-
ing that the same States have but one-third
Of the free population of the Nation, it is a
matter worthy OF attention that they had,
eight years ago, so nearly reached their fail
proportion Of the manufacturing interest oil
the whole country.
In Niles Register of the 18th February,
1874, we find Ih1 following:
1.-The Courier and Enquirer says there are
now fifteen cotton mills in South Carolina
all Of which have been established within
the last ten years, and it is stated on gooC
authority. that Notwithstanding the last five
years of that time, during which business o
all kinds was seriously embarrassed, there
has heen no failure in any one Of these es
adjustments to produce fair returns for CAPT
tai invested, when the business was properl,
attended to. Tit manufacturing system a
the South is even better adapted to be per
manent and uniformly safe than at the North
Experience shows that it is less injuriousl,
affected by commercial revulsions for i
1000 ~ ~ SuCCe6ulHS pSIlOu u 1eHeId
disaster, although many of the largest an
finest establishments at the North were sol
under the hammer at immense sacrifices,
is stated in the South Carolina Temperate
Advocate, that out of 25 cotton factories /
North Carolina, Is in South Carolina, an
10 in Georgia, 1897 from the best inform;
ton, only two have changed hands, and on
Of them was sold for three-fourths of its or
ginal cost. In Virginia, both the CaIelinai
and Georgia, it is said that not a single fat
tory was closed, or put under the ~necessit
of running short time"
The Philadelphia Spirit fMe Times {
November, lS45, has the following
"There are, says a Tennessee paper, n
less than fifty cotton factories in TENNESSEE
They consume annually about ten thousan
bales Of cotton. There are many others EN-
ployed in spinning and weaving both cotto
and wool. Jeans, Osnabergs, Linseys, he
seys and bed-ticking, are made al Lebanon
Shelbyville, Franklin, and Winchester. A
Lebanon one hundred hands are employed
the manufacture Of the coarser kind of cottc
and woollen negro clothing. One half
these hands are black-slaves, Of course, an
they are said to be expert in every depar
ment. The goods manufactured are dispose
of at home and in the South Western State
The Nashville 0rthopolitan, from which "
learn most Of these facts, considers the su