The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-16
From he Louisville Journal.
Manufactures Ina the south, and their
Influence.


pany of South Carolina for some very beautiful
specimens of drillings, sheetings, and shirtngs
manufactured in Graniteville. This announce
ment sounds strange. II is the first time in the
history of South Carolina that such fact has oc-
cured The men of that State generally have
been SO much engrossed with the utterance of male
dictions against the American system, that they
have had no time TO enter into manufacturing.
Now however, since they have provedvery satisfac
torily that they manufacture prohtaby, we hope
they will curse less and work more than they have
heretofore done To reap the substantial advan-
ages of the American system Is far better than To
rail at that system II may be very aristocratc
and disdainful and conservative for a statesman to
shy, John Randolph said, that he would go fifty
miles out of his way to kick sheep, that he might
thereby display his hatred of wooen manufacture;
but there is much more common sense in catching
a sheep, taking the fleece off of his back and man
ufacturng it into cloth. No man OF sense can iall
to that the community in which sheep are
kicked must fall far below another community in
which sheep are cherished, and where their feeces
arc converted into broadcloth. We are glad TO sec
that there some persons in South Carolina who
mean to test the value of spinning jennies and
spindles, and that they have already exhibited a
very decided superiority in the Of those hated
contrvances While the nullihers amusing
themselves with demonstrations of the logic of the
forty bale theory, the Granteville people will, to
the Confusion Of the logic chopping nulfers, spin
up forty bales of cotton into fabrics of great strength
and excellence.
We have heretofore spoken of the experiments
making at Granteville. This is a beautiful village
in Edgevie district, South Carolina, where three
years ago factory commenced The village
is as neat and tasteful as New England village,
and presents striking contrast to those filthy rick
city, sovenly villages that are to be found III the
Southern States The company, we learn, had
a capital of three hundred thousand dollars, with
which they purchased large tract of land at one
dollar acre, and commenced operations. A
building was put up, costing over sixty thousand
dollars and filled with machinery costing twice
a number
cottages for the operatives, and made great variety
of improvements in the neighborhood. More than
n year since the machinery put in motion, and
the company has recently got to making money.
In January it is expected that they will be able to
make very handsome dividend. The persons
who are employed in the factories are the whites
who are known by the name of the Sand Killers,
who have hitherto been wretched, ilhterate, and
degraded class of persons. They now can earn far
better wages than they have ever before received.
The men earn from four to five dollars week, the
women from three to four, while the children get
from one to two. This population will be infinitely
benefited by the establishment of factories in Gran
iteville The education of the children which up
to this time has been wofully neglected, will be at
tended to, and they will not be satisfied to spend
their lives in the worthless manner in which their
fathers have lived. They will be educated make
money and become thrifty. If no other good
should result from the growth of Granieville than
the influence which is exerted over the people, much
will be gained
We hope that the success of the experiment at
Graniteville will encourage similar undertakings
III other portions of South Carolina. Instead OF
listening to notification harangues, talking over
the propriety of secession and dreaming of treason
they will then have profitable and useful occupa-
ton for their minds and hands, and they will soon
cease to indulge in miserable calculations of the
value of the Union. The pestilent nuifers have
30 sadly turned the heads of the people of South
Carolina, tina. but few of them are yet able to dis
tngush truth from falsehood, and the only certain
path to renown from the road that leads to disgrace
and ruin.
The great fact illustrated in Graniteville must do
much toward the dispersion of notification fall
lacies and disunion projects. 1t has demonstrated
the appetency of South Carolina for the manufac-
ture of cotton fabrics and it will not be long before
the confused perceptions of the people will discover
that it is far better to manufacture the cotton
the plantations on which it grows and thus TO give
employment TO large number of indoent and ig-
norant persons than to ship il to Liverpool whence
it is carried to Manchester and worked up into fab
RIGS to be brought back TO the planters who raised
the raw material. We do not think it will be
many years before the conviction that the Ameri-
system ls quite as applicable to the southern
States TO any other States will be clear and for
chile to effect great revolution in the habits OF
thought well az the habits of labor in the South.
The most clear headed men in that region have for
years been striving to impress on their fellow
citizens the necessity and policy of manufacturing
we'll as producing, of bringing the loom into the
neighborhood ofthe plough. The success which has
attended the establishment of factories thus far in
Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, is be-
ginning 20 speak language of facts that cannot be
resisted or gainsayed. Even nullfer, when he be-
comes convinced that, by an investmentof a portion
of his capital in manufacturing, he can make more
money than by employing all that capital in agri-
culture, will be willing 10 act as sensible men in
other sections Of the countrya act. When they begin
TO handle the profits of manufacturing enterprise,
they will experience sort Of necromancy on their
minds, and they will see the beauty of such logic as
the Wings have for twenty years been using in vain
he of do
be stripped OF all those beauties which its advocates
now fancy to be associated with it, and they will
think that the protective policy and judcious sys-
tenn of internal improvements afford the true
of increasing the common prosperity, and of Sc
curing the permanent welfare and rcnown of the
nation.
While sciolists and nnnes Of various kinds are
prating of the greater happiness and virtue that a
people agriculturale facts every
day laughing all such absurdities TO scorn. Ten
years ago the nulliers talked of the moral and So
cal condition of the people of South Carolina
perior TO that Of any other people, and accounted
FOR il by their exclusive devotion TO agricultural
pursuits. They said they had no extensive COM
merce 10 introduce foreign vices into their midst,
great marts Of trade TO make the atmosphere OF
the State impure, and factories to degrade morals
and increase pauperism. 1t is true that, at the
time while some talked in this strain, others
gave vent 10 ercmiads the fallen prosperity OF
the South, and accused the "accursed tariff" Of the
ruin which was every where discoverable. They
former hospitality, until the whole country became
fearful. Between the wide apart courses of these
two classes OF men there a safe middle ground
ON which but few were seen 10 enter. The success
of the manufactures thus far established has already
had the effect Of bringing thousands Of the more
honest and sensible people ON to this safe ground
and they see that by diversifying their la
bors they can stop the progress of blight, rcillu
mine the extngushed lights of hospitality, give
profitable employment to halfsarved idlcrs, pro-
mote the cause of education, morality, and religion
and turn back that black and baleful tide of desoa
ton which seemed 10 threaten the whole State. We
have had cloquencc and pathos enough, and it il
now time for those southern States which wish u
prosper TO be less eloquent and pathetic, and GO to
work and build up workshops and factories, and
thus TO bring the farmer and the manufacturer into
proximity. We hail with great pleasure every cvi
dencc Of the existence of that spirit of enterprise
whose manifestations are seen at Graniteville ant
al other points, and on which alone the people o
the South can with safety permanently rely.
The Wing party of Alabama has been for years
on the advance, while ours has been retrogradng
SO long have the Democrats been in power in TIM
hat thnNyh atg =.