The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-12-22
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cial, contains q very seusluls Al1AS'0 '5
the above title. and though It is addressed to
Northern men as a warning against the lnIurl'
Gus results to them, Of the success OF Free
Sellers in restricting the slave population to
the presen, slave States, yet it is no less ip-
s~tructive aud interesting to the planters OF the
South, and we therefore call their serious at
~tention to il.
Depend upon it, every cotton factory started
in the South, is blow to Northern interests
and if the South would generally adopt the
policy and fill the cotton growing States with
cotton factories, those interested in the ProsPerl-
" Of the Northern manufactures would soon
be brought to reason. g.5 as fg
The following is the article to which we ale
lude. IN. ~. e.r .eat .ar... 4aNs
What we predicted some years ego would be
the effect Of the course pursued BY the north
towards the south, is being rapidly realized.
We said that if the proscriptiye policy Of the
north was not changed, the surplus laborers OF
that section would be put to work as operatives
in factories. The progress made in building up
factories in the south, within t.ee past two.
years, il truly astonishingtc those who conldnot
calculate effect from cause. Georgia has sew
enty-two cotton factories in operation, ana
in course Of construction 5. Carolina some
tbirty-six or forty. North Carolina and Vir-
glnia about the same number each, and Ala
bama nearly as a'4any, making all together
some twohnndred cotton factories in the South.
These are not as large as the Lowell mills it is
true; but some Of them are extensive, and
turn out vast quantities of cloth and yarn. As
we have heretofore stated, cotton yarnsa are taken
from Savanna and Charleston to Philadelphia,
and there sold at the very doors Of the spinners
Of that city, and we would not be astonlshedit
tomestics from the same point were sold in
the northern cities in avery few years. While
the northern manufacturers are clamoring
about losses, and for additional protection,
the southern manufacturers have been dividing
heavy dividends, and setting aside large sur
nj usses. We have not heard of a failure or
stoppage of a single cotton factory in the
south We observed some time since much
graduation in many Of the northern papers be-
cause the operatives in a factory in Georgia,
were, or were to be, white persons, but we
would ask what are the operatives in the other
one.hundred and ninety-nlne! The inference
is. black Indeed it is known thati in those
mills that have declared is to- 10 per cent
profit, that they are.
Every intelligent man knows that by ltinlt"
ing the slave territory, the slave population is
not lessencd. The ouly effect is to overstock
the labor market. This being now done for
planting purposes, in some Of the Southern
States, the hands in a certain district not re-
quired to cultivate il, is put to manufacturing
what the others produce, and each coming
year, from the increase OF population, add
tlonal hands will be sent from the plantation
to the mills. We do not pretend to say that
the entire increase Of slave population hereaf'
ter will be put to manufacturing, because there
are large and fertile plains Of the South, still
in a state Of a nature which will be rede emed;
but we do say that through the action of the
North, the South has engaged in maunufactur-
ing and the interest has struck its root deeply,
has fourished, and must, while the laws Of ina
ture and trade remain, unless thwarted by the
sword. The Northern States have long enjoy
ed q monopoly Of the manufacturing Of the
Union, by which, they have become rich. In
their faaeied security they preached, then Urg-
ed the doctrine now likely to Overwhelm and
impoverish them. H. G8 a.
But It'll not the lords Of the spindles that
we pity, it is the operative. AS the Northern
Manufacturers are pushed from the Southern
markets by Southern fabrics, and pressed north
by the same, to their own doors, they will not
raise as heretofore, the cry Ofincrease of tariff
that the success Of Southern manufacturers
has si!enCed already, but they will reduce the
wages Of the operatives to a point Of means o!
almost beggarly existence. .f'
But what do t csc men hope to gain by their
course? The adage used to be, : divide and
cOnquer,' but they must have discovered some
new light. Surely it cannot be hoped that by
concentrating slaves in a State, until the mar.
ket for labor is so oversize cked that every man
not owning slaves is driven out, that then
when a portion Of every famliy's wealth is ia
this kind of property, and all the labor done by
the slaves that an emancipation law will then
be passed. That would be folly.
We have made som of these illustrations
more for the purpose Of showing the folly o.
the cry about the danger 10 the North, Of slave
territory being extended, than from any actua
inf uence opening the whole territory acquired
from Mexico would have, for Of it all there il
only a small strip along the east bank of the
> Rio Grande and large tributaries entering it 4
, which any sane man would think of taking
slaves. But the duty of the North is to TAXI
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