Washington telegraph., 1849-12-12
From the Louisville Journal.
Manufact ures in the South and their
TDfuence


At the late fair of the franklin Insti-
tute in Philadelphia, the first premium
! of that institution was awarded to the
Graniteville Manufacturing Company of
| South Carolina, for some very beautiful
specimens of driIlings. sheetings and shirt
ings manufactured in Graniteville. This
announcement sounds strange. tits the first
time in the history of South Carolina that
such fact has occurred. The men of
that State generally have been so much
engrossed with the utterance of maledic-
tions against the American system, that
they have had no time to enter into man.
ufacturing. Now, however, since they
have proved very satisfactorily that they
can manufacture proftably, we hope they
will curse less and work more than they
have heretofore done. To reap the SUBJ
stantial advantages of the American sys-
tenn is far better than to rail at that sys-
tenn. 1t may be very aristocratic and dis
dainful and conservative for statesman
to say, as John Randolph said, that he
would go fifty miles out of his way
to kick a sheep. that he might there
! by display his hatred of woollen man.
common sense in catching sheep, taking
the fleece off his back, and manufacturing
it into cloth. No man of sense can fail
to see that the community in which
sheep are kicked must fall far below an
other community IN which sheep are
cherished, and where their heeces are
converted into broadcloth. We are glad
to see that there are some persons in
South Carolina who mean to test the
value of spinning-jennies and spindles
aud that they have already exhibited
very decided superiority in the use OF
those hated contfivances. While the
nullifers are amusing themselves with
demonstrations of the logic of the forty
bale theory, the Granteville people will,
to the confusion of the logic,chopping null
lifers spin up forty bales of cotton into
fabrics of great strength and excellence
We have heretofore spoken of the ex-
periments making at Graniteville. Ihls
is beautiful village in Edgevllle district,
South Carolina, where three years ago
factory was commenced. The village Is
as neat and as tasteful as New Eng
land village. and presents striking con-
trast to those filthy, rickety, sloveniy vii
lagos that are to be found in the Southern
States. This company, as we learn had
capital of three thousand dollars, with
which they purchased large tract OF
land at one dollar all acre, aud commenc-
ed operations. A building was put up,
costing over sixty thousand dollars and
flied with machinery costing twice as
much more. They built a large number
of neat cottages for the operatives, and
made great variety of improvements in
the neighborhooJ. More than a year
since the machinery was put in motion,
and the company has recently got to max
inc 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-hilIers, who have hitherto been
wretched, iliterate, 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 tour, While
the children get from one to two, lhis
population will be infinitely benefited by
the establishment of factories in Granite
Vile. The education of the children,
which up to this time has been wofnlly
neglected, will be attended to, and they
will not be satisfied to spend their lives
in the worthless manner in which their
fathers have lived. They will be educa-
ted, make money and become thrifty. Ii
no other good should result from the
growth of Graniteville than the influence
which is exerted over the people, much
will be gained.
We hope that the success of the ex-
pertinent at Graniteville will encourage
similar undertakings in other portions OF
South Carolina. Instead of liste hing to
notification harangues, talking over the
propriety of secession, and dreaming OF
treason, they will then have profitable
and useful occupation for their minds ana
hands, and they will soon cease to indulge
in miserable calculations OF the value OF
the Union The pestilent nullifiers have
so sadly turned the heads OF the people OF
South Carolina, that but few OF them are
vet able to distinguish truth from false
hood, and the only certain path to renoWn
from the road that leads to disgrace and
ruin.
The great fact illustrated in Granite
Vile must do much toward the dispersion
of notification faIlacies and dlsunlon pro-
iects. 1t has demonstrated the appetency
of South Carolina for the manufacture ol
cotton fabrics, and it will not be long ne-
fore the confused perceptions OF the peo-
ple will discover that it is tar better 10
manufacture the cotton near the planta'
ton on which it grows, and thus to give
employment to large number OF lnoolen'
and ignorant persons, than to snip IL 10