New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-02-02
Manufactures ~ the south Georgia, dc.
Sr.rCrl Ian 10 1915

In your psper Of the llth ins.. | Observe some
remarks On the Cotton Manufacturers Of Georgia,
~ reply 70 the ErsHiug Post. Not having access
70 the latter paper must infer from your com
uen,s and quotations the scope Of It's article. II
that paper IS trying to strengthen Itself or the al.
yocates OF Free Trade and the Tsrihol i5 it must
look elsewhere than to Georgia You may be as
veI versed IN the progress and condition Of the
Manufactures Of this State ss an. bat take the
liberty to give you such general information as
possess that you may be induced to bestow some
attention upon this very interesting subject
The Manufactures Of this State are not the growth
o. dsy nor tue offspring Of Mr. Poks Tariff
They were started on sound principles OF political
economy such as are entertained By the friends OF
the American Sysiem-namely, TO build up in
dependent Home Market to save the expense To-
ciden, 70 sending Cotton abroad. to be brought
back in goods made by the labor Of other countries;
aud 10 diversity the Labor and interests Of cur own
state The principal goods made are aras and
Coarse Cottons and. saving al expenses Of
Freight on the raw material snd it, products they
have It is true, needed no Protection. The yarns
find market chiefly among the country people,
who weave most Of their own clothing and the
Osnsburgs a. they called are used principally
for Negro Clothes Formerly an immense amount
of Scotch and German Coarse Linens were i'm
ported Cor this purpose, which are now entirely
superseded by the Domestic COttons, and con
siderable surplus finds sale ia Mobile and New
Orleans few mills make coarse Wooden or
Mixed goods for the same purpose. and BY these
aud other American fabrics tue Scotch plains ind
English serges have been driven out OF use.
In Georgia there are in operation more than thirty
Cotton factories. probably averaging 900 spindes
and some quite large are in the course OF cree
k1ua IN ar1 haan ffrhI 10 nd
have doubtless made average dividends Of 20 per
cent. per hnnum, because protected not by Tariffs
but By lavoring circumstances
So lar from any doctrine of the Free Trader being
here illustrated. II is a striking exemplibcation OF
one Of your own positions You have advocated
the erection Of actOres in the Vest that the ope
ratiyes might use up the Corn and Wool there in
stead Of sending them % Eng and. Such has been
the practical effect here. Corn In the interior OF
this State is doubtless the average Of double the
value that u was ten years ago-and more than
that the effect has been TO retard the increase Of
the production n Cotton aud decrease the quantity
exported Were there no Home Market for Corn
the whole available labor would be turned 10 the
growth Of Cotton as the most valuable exportebie
staple and when the enlarged product had forced
down the price, then our planters would have mi
grated 10 more fertile lands where they have com
peted with the Gulf srowerg Our state would
then. like South Carolina. have been undergoing
drain Of its best population and capital, and we
should have been left with poor, exhausted soil,
and an unproductive. poverty stricken people Our
Victories 20 far, are chiefly I'D miles and upward
from the sea- placed in the high healthy regions OF
the State where the densest, most energetic. and
~ealthiest popu alton is 10 be found and they are
destined 70 go on and realize the proposition made
ten years ago at one Of the famous McDu Free
Trade Conventions that the South, instead ol ex-
porting its Cotton 70 Europe should send II IN
The shane OF Yarns It is difficult to believe that
ti,,. lie 81 iuf oil q
porting Yarns and Goods to the North, and shall
soon do SO 70 Europe and South America This Is
owing 20 the enterprise foresight and Intelligence
of the people Of Georgia, and their reliance IN the
principles Of Political Economy adverse % Free
Trade r. evidenced By the political complexion Of
the State. Judge Bsrrien, lately reelected to the
t. S Senate Messrs Toombs, Stephens and King.
and be- eve DR.. Jones OF the House Of Represen'
tatives coming from the most influential and best
informed sections of the State ere all IN favor OF
Discrimination in favor Of Home Industry AZ YOU
know the State is about equally divided nthe pop
ular vote between the two political parties, and by
the Whigs the doctrines Of Protection have been
for eight years past openly zraiOusly and unflnch-
ingly maintained. What a contrast "lth Soulh
Carolina a State which las no popular party
which is governed by suhseryiency 10 Mr. Calhoun
and his views and buried in the darkness and le;h-
argy Of Loco oooisml
The value Of the American System is also sppre-
ciated and acknowledged by hundreds oil our IN
teligent planters. from its simple eject on the
value Of their great product-Cotton Ihey Know
that they have owed the main lenance OF ia price
frequently o the purchases made Tor Northern
Manufacturers and that II they hsd had 10 depend
upon England alone they would have had TO aoan'
don its product. The quantity taken for home use
hiss created sufficient competition 10 MAINTAIN
prices generally at profitable point Tor production
and they realize the value OF the Home Market
thus created bv Protection. What would be the
I f..s n Ius W
on England alone FOR market "a heretofore =
None of her large merchants will advance on Cot
ton and few will buy il. and If there were no
other outlet there would have been, long since,
still greater and more disastrous decline IN price -
The position of Great Britain ct this time must
present a Notifying spectacle 70 those who have
ever advocated an entire reliance on her Tor mar
ket lor cur Cotton and Bresdstuhs, and trust they
| will read the lesson Alright
few words now as 10 Georgia generally Her
position aud condition not being blazoned abroad
/ and bOasted about is apparently unOticed by the
| friends Of our iriole country at the North. The
swasgering and buster OF South Carolina throws
/ Georgia into the shade but the same quiet pro
sress that she has made in Cotton and Woolen
/ manufactures, she has made IN other matters. she
mas built over COO miles OF Railroad at the cost OF
Twelve Millions OF dollars, and is still progressing
/ ia the work A part Of this has been built by the
/ state but chiefly IL has been done by individuals,
and nearly all with the means and capital oil Geor-
| eia You may notice the Charleston people boast
iag about their Internal improvements, bat they lie
principally in the State of Georgia and have been
! built BIZ her money and enterprise. The little City
/ of Savannah has completed 100 miles Of Railroad
to Macon which puts her u miles nearer the Ten
nessee River than Charleston while her haroor IS
the best on the Southern coast The enterprise and
rising character and condition Georgia are not the
less real because unnoticed, and in time may be APP
/ preciated but | trust she may never be cassed
among the friends of Free Trade, or as prospering
/ by it. Yours, ukoKeiAN'
Coon Smelier.