Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-08

the opinion held by many. that inanuiac-
turing establishments cannot be carried TN
with advantage where slavery PREVAILS
The manufacture of blankets is about to be
introduced in Tennessee for the FIRST time, at
Lebanon"
In March last the newspapers stated that
there were 30 cotton factories in operation
and in process of construction in Georgia, in
which $4,000, 900 are invested. From Is
to 10000 bales of cotton We're consumed last
year, and the amount Of manufactured goods
was equal in value to Sl.500,O00
From the most reliable source we learn
that there are above thirty tobacco factories
in Richmond. Va. employing from fifty to
three hundred hands each, all colored, and Of
these about 80 per cent. are slaves, and 10
per cent. free colored persons; the latter
chiefly women.
A year ago the papers announced that there
was then a cotton factory near Pensacola.
Florida, worked by four hundred colored
girls, and that another still larger in the same
neighborhood was about being erected.
During the past two years, as oft n at least
as once in a fortnight, we have met with pa
ragraphs stating the manufacture of machine
ry in the North to be used in the South.
Yesterday we republished an item, cut
iithi OtO u bhl 'ANinuHtNg SNuillH llbN d
company of Stockholders residing in Ken
lucky, Indiana, Arkansas, Louisiana, and
Mississippi, have organized themselves for
the purpose Of manufacturing cotton, at Can
melton, about 1870 miles below Louisville
Tit capital stock of the Company is half a
million, of which 5000, 900 will now be put
TO use, and 10000 spinJles will be started.
These are a few of the facts gathered by
accident, indicating TIE rapidly spreading
policy Of manufacturing at the South, and
exhibiting its praciicability there.
We subjoin the opinions Of two men who
have given the greatest degree of attention to
the general subject, and are, as they are re-
ceiye.I 10 be, most competent 10 speak of it.
Henry Clay, at Raleigh, N. c., in the
spring Of 1915, ssid;
"It cannot be questioned that the chief
cause of the reduced prlGc of cotton is the
excess of production. The price O. 1t would
rise if less of it were produced, by divertiHg
a portion of the iabor empIoyea in lis cuhira-
ton (slave labor necessarily to some other
branch of industry. + y 4 The day will
come, and is not distant, when the South will
feel an imperative necessity voluntarily, TO
make such a diversion of a portion of its la
Dor. Considering the vast water power and
other facilities of manufacturing now vast
ing and unemployed at the South, and its
possession at home of the raw material, | be-
HeUe tie day UiH come When the cotton region
toiU be the greatest MANUFACTURING REGION
OF COTTON IN THE WORLD"
Andrew Stewart, Esq, of Pennsylvania,
the highest authority in the country upon all
practical matters in the manufacturing poll
cy, in a letter addressed to Mr.. Summers,
published during the campaign Of 1914, says,
speaking of Virginia
Has she not all the prolific sources Of
wealth which Pennsylvania and other States
are now so successfully developing1 Have
you not the same chain of mountains, con-
tanning in its bosom the same rich beds of
mineral wealth, of ore and coal, the same
water powers, and all other natural facilities ?
But superadded to all these. has she not the
transcendent and empowering advantage Of
LABOR WITHOUT WAGES. Let,
then, those Southern disunionists avail them
selves of their great and decided advantages
in the possession Of the staple article and
cheaper iabor, enabling them not only tc
compete successfully ,oih their brethren al The
North, but even to triumph in a foreign mar
ket, over the Sefs of Russia and the pauper,
of Great Britain"
Now, then, we have seen the facts which
demonstrate our point, and authorities which
are good against a world of prejudice and un
instructed opinion. Henry Clay is not like
ly to blunder on the point which has beef
the study of his life, and Stewart has a per
sonal and practical acquaintance with it, en-
HANGED by no ordinary amount of investiga
ton, pursued for scientific and political pun
poses. And The statistics adduced reduce tn
matter to d certainty.
NTo,c,txo. -. nx,o;o.l - ~ -.
c%esstul in the South. Slave labor can be an
is employed in them, and-that labor is cheaI
er than the labor of the free white man, cheaI
err than the pauper labor of Great Britain-i
is labor wITHoUT wages. Let us see:
A slave can he fed and clothed fer thirt
dollars a year: doctor Brisbane says it ca
be done well in South Carolina for twent,
seven.) The interest on his price amount
TO thirty dollars more-siXty dollars a yea
t or sixteen and a half cents a day. is his CO.
q to his master. Double this if you please,
D meet the cost of supporting the infants an
/ infirm, and you have labor at thirty cents p,
diem, prime cost. When the slave dies Il
e capital invested is not lost; they double the
number once in twenty years, and not onl
replace them with the children chatte
: which they leave behind, but go far TO repa
Y the whole expense of their own maintenant
besides.
f Mr.. Stewart is right, it is labor wiIhol
wages, or nearly so.
1t is true that slaves are inferior lahore
. where, without motive, interest or any fee
! ing of duty, they must be left TO their discr
: ton and cannot be overseen, as in small farr
. ing or any other solitary occupations, b
wherever they can be worked in gangs. al
superintended as in the cotton field, the forg
t furnace and large cotton and woollen ~factorie
. compulsion can be easily made to supply Il
n place of zeal and interest-at the loom hu
dreds can be watched by a single man. as o
own factory children now are their wo
can be inspected both in quality and yuan
d ty, and the lash applied to secure their 'indu
try and bring out their skill. q.
9 Now what shall we say to the prospe
: which this view Of the subject opens befc