The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-10

SITS or laborers, are the least part Of the adj
Svantages which tho community derives from
s!heir existence and prosperity. They may be-
gin, hen, to apprehend the possibility tha,
\ manufacture may be, in 4 high degree, hene-
i icial TO people, although in the FIRST instance
4 not able to furnish its products at as cheap d
1noney-prico as they could be obtained abroad.
\ rhey will come To see how it is that such prof.
l ,ection as will build up and sustain manulac-
cures Is Of quite as much importance 10 tAoI
4 Consumer as to the producer.
4 1t cannot be but that the manufacture Of the
] 'oarser cotton goods in the South will increased
continually, and that The Southern people Will
jpush their new notions farther As the planters
d.eaIn how much safer and better is the domestic
han the foreign market for therlaw material. !
\ hey will regard with increasing favor thcI
spolicy which aims TO encourage and extend IT,
az the Northern mills are forced 10y Southern
competition TO abandon the spinning and weav
Jung. of the heavier fabrics, il will bchoove thcE
ipanter TO encourage the transfer Of their CAPT
sal and labor to The production Of the finer audt
most costly qualities, for he win SEQ that next
H. nothing can be gained by stopping giyens
lumber Of spndles and looms in one place I'll
! start them in another.
The same social and industrial progresss
which coniers independence on the South, must
ring with 1T the knowledge that It's interests
md those of other sections are not antagonis /
dout in perfect harmony.
She, too, viii try to work her way, as thief
I North has done, irom the grades of manuiac |
lure requiring the lowest skill and least labor !
10 those which demand both in the highest de
gree and will see that the ability is only to bel
] attained by stimulating the inventive talent OH
1 New England to further efforts to 0vercomeb
1 'heap labor by superior machinery, as it has.
lone heretofore; for it is plain that if the re-
! luisite skill and machinery arc to be had, they
Twill be got soonest by those who have already
made the greatest advance towards them /
and that when attained the same advantages
# situation which have attracted the spinner
and weaver Of plain goods to the cotton-fedsE
I will attract the makers Of the finest aud cost
lest fabrics. In short, that the South musts
water and cultivate the young plant in thes
aNorthern nursery, to transfer it in its maturity
md hardihood to the sides Of her own hillsi
! md warehouses;.
! From time to time, paragraphs aiming I'll
stimulate the South to engage more largely i'll
manufactures fall under our observation, which,
ire based upon sectional considerations. Wei
/ ire glad 10 see such counscls, in whatever
Esprit they are conceived, for we have an abid
ng faith that their adoption will tend to pro
Amote harmony and allay discord.
l They spread the knowledge Of facts and prin-
a,iples which inculcate in their legitimate ap-i
splication the Investigation Of industry by ey-
1ery other practicable mode, as well as that of
manufacturing cotton.
Every step in that direction renders the next
more clearly desirable, and prompts men to dc
snand that every obstacle shall be removed
(which nnpedes them in taking il, and wthE
1 EVERY advance thcy see more clearly that thes
1chief obstacle is that system of abandoningE
them to the edicts OF foreign legislatures, andE
;the policy Of foreign merchants, which calls ii
l self irec-tradc, whose Only real claim to thaiI
sitle consists in the fact that il would leave the!
! radc that American labor would be glad to oll-E
gage in free to be restricted by alien govern
lnents, free 10 perish before they attain The
] power of selfdcience under The monopoly sys
iem Of England