Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-05-03
From The Charleston Msrcary.
MANUFACTURERS ATT THE SOUTH

Having shown that on her rugged and
roekbouud soil Massachusetts makes
saving Of at least one-lhird part Of the
expense Of Experimentation. when com
pared with Suuth-CaroIina. let Us now
see how the. excess is employed in the
former State, in order to learn what may
be done ia the latter. In the year lo4o
Massachusetts employed in manufactures
and trades 1908 PERSONS; vast number
of them females, and multitude OF boys
and girls from twelve TO sixteen years OF
age Included in The mass. The entire
number.of both sexes and all ages was
less, by more than $4,000. than The num-
Der employed in agriculture the same
wear in South Carolina. This number Of
operatives turned ou, in the year products
TO the gross amount of sixty millions ot
dollars. The capital invested in these
operations is stated a, fprty-two millions Of
dollars. The rate Of ten per cent. per
annum on this amount ofiuvesiments will
show clear net profit to tho employers Of
nearly -four aud quarter millions of dol
lars. II will be pretty safe to say that this
prnfit is greater Than that On the entire ae,
.riculturaI products of South Carolina, and
vet al least thirty three and a!hird per
cent. Of the entire amount. or fourteen
hundred thousand dollars, is The fruit Of
labor saved in Massachusetts on compari
son with South Carolina, ami which is
actually wasted in the latter State from
the wan, Of proper application and direc'
sion. By the application of proper sys-
tenn ii then becomes quite evident that the
people Of Sou,h Carolina might reap of
lhe fruits of the earth TO as great an amount
:as they now do, ard save labor enough
from the amour. pow employed 10 yield
clear profit Of fourteen hundred thousand
dollars at very moderate calculation, in
trades and MANUFACTURES" Certainly this
is an object worthy of'the trial. ~
Again, the portion Of The aforesaid capi.
tai of employed in the manufacture of cot
ton was fraction less than seventeen and
"a half mlliousu dollars. Reckon The profits
-as before, at ten per cent. only, and you
!s,ave the aggregate amount Of one million
seven hundred and fiji = thousand dollars !;
:and.this result was Produced by the labor
about thirty thousand persons, malo aud
and female, old and young. To earn
this amount Of profit, therefore, to their
employers, less than the labor of QUE half
the number was required, compared with
the number whose labor is actually wased
in lhe. fields oflhe South. In other words.
lby a similar mode Of The application Of
labor with ,ha, adoped a, The North.
South G carolina might, without The slishles,
reduction in the quantity of her agricul,u-
raj products, take Rom her fields and ap-
pIytlo the manufacture Of cotton twice the
amount Of labor employed in the latter
branch Of business inehe cotton manufac-
lures Of Massachusetts. TEat the measure
would be a source Of great prolific the
community al large, as we'll as 10 iudividu:
al capitalists, there canno, even be rooms 20
doubt; and should il:in fact be; found ne:
cessary 10 curlail agricultural pursuits 10
proportion TO The labor withdraw from
them, even then the result would prove
highly beneficial. In The FIRST place, the
cotton crop of the Slate might be man1-
faclurej al home, aad all'lhe profits oft!le
process be retained at home also, instead
OF being transferred elsewhere; and when
we reflect On the great prosperity and the
constant accessions of wealth in The manu-.
featuring districts Of The North, it seems
astonishing that,he South is not awake 10
the reality. 4athe second place, the home
demand for the agricultural produce would
be increased, together with It's value, with
ihe increase OF MANUFACTURES. Greater
economy would be introduced in the ap-
plicalion of labor, because it would assume
a higher value. In the third place, new
aud abiding impulse would be impaired to
the energies Of the people. Emigration to
The other States weuld be checked, by The
fact that all would be Profitabiy employed
at home. Population and wealth. and lin
provemenss of every description weuld
rapidly spread themselves over the land.
Wbete millions Of acres Of uncullivaled
pine barrens aud desslate savaHnas, now
pain the eye, would soou be seen the well
cultivated field, the thriving town, and the
populous village. Tho rude log cabin
would give place 10 the comfortable man.
sion, aud The place now wild and desola'e
would become animate with life and ac-
tivily. And should the passing traveller,
some fifty years hence, inquire the cause
of a change at once SO great and so favora
bic. he will mceI bis reply in the puff
fling Of the s1eam engine. the roar Of the
waterfall, the hum OF the cotton spindle,
and the elat.er Of The loom.
In all the foregoing au,icipations there
is nothing chimericaI, nothing tar-fetcIed,
nothing speculative. Yhe examples Of
other States fully corobora,e all that has
been said. They have tried the expert
ment, and have succeeded-succeeded,
100 beyond all previous calculation And
yet there is no, State north Of the Poto-
mac possessing anylhing like the facilities
and advantages for the manufacture of
Cotton as the State Of South Carolina, or
any other Southern State. Why then
should they Not profit by the position in
which they are placed, and vie with New
England in The race for wealth and i'm.
provemeal To arouse their energies,
aud 10 come TO the work with deier-
mined spirit. is all that is requisite.
G.. T-J.
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