The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-04-20
MANUFACTURED IN TRs SOUTHERN
srATEs.

STATES.
VIM. L. Hodge. Esq. Editor Of the N.
o. Bulletin. wss one Of the gsatlsmeu who
accompanied Gen. Taylor on his route to
Washington. 10 one Of his letters 10 the
Bulletin he gives the following interesting
account Of the iron manufacturers on the
Cumberland river, in Tennessee. His OBJ.
servations have an imporian, bearing upon
the policy Of The whole South.
"This is the frs, time (says Col. Hodge,
| have ever ascended the Cumberland. and
was highly gratifed with its general sp.
pearauce, with the undulating appearance
Of the banks, with alternate high ground
and meadow land. We stopped al some
Of the celebrated Tennessee iron works on
the banks Of this river, where the manu-
fac,ure is carried through all its stages,
from the crude ore up to the finished bar
iron. One Of the rolling mills tina, we
have visited was still in full and extensive
operation, though The suicidal tariff of
1886 is pressing with great weight upon
its prosperity. These works, however,
have one advantage over those on the sea
board in competing with the foreign ar,i.
Gle, by The additional cos, Of freeh, on
the latter up from New Orleans, as they
supply the wants Of the interior, which the
foreign article can only reach BY mourning
an additional freight and insurance up the
river. This sdvaR,sge is not much, pro.
badly - or IS per ton. but is still Of con.
siderable importance in . struggle for ex.
is,ence.
"The more I feaec, on the subiec, the
more feel as,oni.ked ., the faulty of any
man, or SO. OF men or party, opposing q
system Of policy calculated TO promote and
protect establishments Of this kind.-
IL sppears to me perfectly impossible
that any oce Gao overlook the great
and obvious advantages Of them, no, 10
those only uho arc pro1rietors, or other.
wise directly interested 10 them, but TO the
whole eocu,ry. Here, in Tennessee, sni.
NAL and vegetable food arc produced 10
ssch supsrsbundance that il scarcely awe,
remuusrativs price and the van, Of q
sunicisn. home marke, renders The supply
so much greater Than the demand ,ha. i,
is either used in unnecessary proiusion or
actually wasted. Large quantities Of grain,
particularly corn, are actually allowed 10
perish in The 6eld /; and i, is no uncommon
thing. 10 certain portions Of tie State. 10
use 6ns uhsa, 10 fauen hogs. rtis es,ab.
ilshments like these iron works and other
manufactures tina, furnish the home mark.
ct Tor these productions and could the
Slate Of Tennessee Withdraw one fourth or
ons nth. or even one.,enih Of her popula.
ton from agricultural pursuits and employ
Them 10 mining coal and iron ia manulsc.
lures, instead Of her cultivators Of the soil
obtaining, as they now do, Two cent, for
fine fat beef on the hoof, and twenty cents
tor corn, delivered in Nashville, and still
less 10 the country, they would obtain one
hall more, or even Doodle these rates and
n an equally increased ratio for wbea,
winch sometimes is sold a, thirty cents pc :
,oshel. Admit, for the argument sake
hat The Consumers Of these articles d.
pay the American manufacturers some ad.
vance on the price Of the foreign article
they woold still b greatly the gamers by
The enhanced price Of their agricultural
Productions, particularly when thew would
70 benefited BY that enhanced value upoo
10 whole Of their crop, whilst bu, a small
'or'lon OF the proceeds Of it could bsex.
'ended for manufactured articles. These
cry non works practically illustrate tho
heo'y, by the results they produce in their
espectlve vieini,ies, where ihey add "a
he general comfort and wealth OF the sur.
ounding country. BY their largo expendi.
ure, and BY furnishing a marke, for the
''oduce OF the soil. Whs, policy can be
more stupid than IN, one Which comoels
he planter Of Tennessee 10 send his cot
co. at heavy expense and risk, frs, 10
70" Orleans, and from thence 10 Man.
hester, IN order TO bs manufactured into
ee'o clothing, and the latter then 10 be
fought back at further expense and risk
New Orleans, and then sgaia conveyed
iteen hundred milss Of river navigation
his residence. whom all The expense Of
lese repeated shipments, with tho vsriou,
eishts, assurances, commissions, Iandins
I'D shipping charges, inisres, On cusisl ,
ID labor bestowed on the manufacture
'uld be retained in his own Stats. bv :
aving his cotton mills on the sso,. with .
10 "a" material and tho market for the
anufaciured article at his own door be. I,
ies obtaining regular and advantageous 4.
'me market for the gram end mes, raised !,
his fellow.citivensi Tho people of i
eoneasee were beginning to appreciate r
csc advantages. and already upwards Of r,
irsy cotton mills were established and IN "
era,'on in The Stale, and they could have :
pidly increased but for the tariff of sac :,
'lch has had such bIighring eff.c, v,oo :;
terPnses Of that kind. But for that IN. r.
'tunate law, II 10 probable ere this Ten. ;.
ssee would have at this momen, manu-. r,
tories 10 operation within her border. -
Il would have supplied her whole popu. ;.
ION al least with oil the coarse cotton :.
DDS required for her consumption "
w, so lar as she receives these goods :.
m abroad, she give. TO The foreign man. IT,
cturer i've bales Of raw cotton as nav. :"
nj fOr nm bal. e