Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-04

-'N C1i NOtbu1hbA w hiRN w
placed an expert operative from The North
in each story of the building as an in
strnclor and pattern to the rest"
have since learned that some Mt
temps were made at first TO induce the
poor white people 10 work side by side
with the blacks in these mills. They
utterly failed, and the question then be-
came with the proprietorS, whether they
should employ blacks only or whites on.
~; whether they should give these poor
people an occupation which, while it ten
ded to elevate their condition, secured a
more expert class of ~work-people than
the negroes could be expected 10 become,
or whether they should rely upon the
less intelligent services of slaves. They
decided ut length upon banishing the la
bour OF blacks from the mills. Al Gran
i%levilie, in South Carolina, about ten
miles from the Savannah river, Il liule
manufacturing village has lately been
built up, where the families ofthe Crack
erS, as they are called, reclaimed from
their idle lives in the woods, are settled
and white labor only is employed. The
enterprise is said to be in a most prosper.
Gus condition.
Only coarse cloth are made in these
~millS-strong thick fabrics, suitable for
negro shirling--and the demand for this
kind OF goods. | am told, is greater than
the supply. Every yard made in this
mandatory at Augusta, is taken on as
soon rs 1t leaves The loom. fell in with
a northern man in the course of the day.
who told me that these mills had driven
The northern manufacturer of coarse cot
tons out of the southern market.
"lhe buildings are erected here more
chenpIy," he continued ''lhere is far
less expense in fuel, and the wages of the
work-peopIe are less. At first The boys
and the girls Of the Cracker families
were engaged for liulo more than their
board; their wages are now better, but
they are still low. | am about TO 10 TO
the North. and | shall do my best to per-
suade some ofmy friends, who have been
almost ruined by this southern competi-
ton, to come TO Augusta and set up cot
ton mills"
There is wafer power at Augusta sufi.
cient to turn homachinery of many large
establishments. A canal from the Sa-
vannah river brings in n large volume Of
water, which passes from level to level,
and might be made to turn the spindles
and drive The looms of IL p~opulous manu-
featuring town. Such it will become, if
any faith is 10 be placed in present indi-
cations, and a considerable manufacture
ing population will be settled at this place,
drawn from the ''half.wild" inhabitants
of The most barren paris of the Southern
States. | look upon the introduction Of
manufactures at the South as an event OF
the most favorable promise for that part
of ho-eAS4atrv, since it both c~ondenses q
class of population too thinly scattered 10
r have the benefit of the institutions Of ci.
: viIized li(c-of education and religion
and restores one branch Of labor, al least,
10 its proper dignity, in a region where
manual labor has been the badge of SER
vitude and depcndence.-N. Y. Erenine
Post,
We have heard much Of late Of South.
ern Manufactures, and observe that in
several Of the most intelligent and far.
seeing of The Southern papers a manufac.
turing policy is urged upon the people
us the most certain way TO ensure the
prosperity of tAe Slave States. The
South, with the raw material, al her owl
door, should be able 10 make her owr
cotton goods, cheaper Than she can i'm.
port Them, and 10 do SO would unuues
lionably add 10 the prosperity of her white
population, as it would increase thc
wealth of her people. The question
however, first 10 be settled is, where are
the operatives! They are not the slave
holders. for they are 100 indolent, if no
too rich they are not the slaves. foI
they are too ignorant; the only class Ief
is the 'white trash ,''-the poor white
folks, who arc not shareholders, and no
quite slaves. That this is the practical
solution TO the problem of southern Man.
. uIactures, is seen by the above extract O
a letter Of Mr.. Bryant of the Ecenine
Post. who is now travelling at the South
We have more lhan once expressed
the opinion that manufacturing would ne
yer flourish at the South, if she depended
upon her slaves for operatives, and the
facts stated by Mr.. Bryant confirm III,
correctness of that view. fit wereprac
, ticable 10 make operatives of slaves,
would not be safe, and it is not practioa
BILE only because it Is not safe.
, A manufacturing operative require
some degree Of intelligence. An inlelli
! gent people cannot be held as slaves
Not that there are not intelligent me
among the servile population of tn
South, but they are scattered among III
! people, taken generally as house-seryant
where they are constantly under the ey
Of a master, and by a degree of induI
- gence to themselves. and of delegate
power over their fellows are separate
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