Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-09-21
The Future.

Now that all Of the benefcent measures OF
compromise, embraced in Mr.. Clay's bill, have
separately received the sanction of Congress,
have been approved Of BY the President and are
now laws OF the land, a general glow of ~satisfac-
tion, Of patriotic rejoicing, seems to pervade the
country from one extreme to the other. All
classes, all parties, all sects and conditions, re-
iolce in the sunlight of the glorious news That our
noble ship Of state has weathered the terrible
storm that lately encornpassed her as with q
funeral pail, and that she is now sailing proudly
over the genial sea Of patriotism and b~rotherly
love. Not one single State, nor half a dozen, OIL
Il dozen States, alone, share in the general Joy
but aIl.-aH, from the ice-bound barriers of the
northern lakes TO where the Rio del Norte rolls
its peaceful pillows TO the sea-from the teeming
marts of the Atlantic to the iarthest verge of oul
western dornains-there comes rolling up, as the
news spreads, by lightning wires, by railroads
and by steamboats,, one universal acclaim of glad.
ness and exultation. The general shout of Joy
and the gloom which proceeded the passage Of
the measures which caused it. brings TO mind the
noble lines of the poet:
"Tiie sky is changed !--and such d changeh-Oi
night,
And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrors strong
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light
OF a dark eye in womanl Far along,
From peak to peak, the rafting crags among,
Leaps the live thunder! Not from one Tone cloud
But etery mountain now hath found a tongue,
And JlIa answers, through her misty shrond,
Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud y
But while we all rejoice over the final settle
ment Of the fearful questions which have so Ions
agitated the country--it is the path of policy, al
well as Of duty, for us of the South to use the
experience of the past for our advancement in thu
future. II is said that the balance of %politica
power has gone from us. Admit tour wealth
the resources es our country, our genial cline, oul
mighty rivers, our fertile soil, have not. Let Il,
improve them-lct us foster home enterprise-ler
us encourge home industry-let us create q honl
market by manufacturing our cotton at home
which will dfHsw around us everywhere a hardy
and thrifty population--let lis become CONNER.
cially~ independent, in the full sense of the term
which can be easily done by the exercise of q
little enterprise and public spirit, and the South
will occupy in a few years a loftier attitude and a
stronger 70 ition, than she would had all the
acquired Mexican territory been declared slave
territory in perpetuity.
Let lis manufacture our own cotton at home
The policy of sending it TO Massachusetts to be
manufactured has built up observation-disclosures al
whose expense At the expense of the cotton.
grower, of course. He, in the end, pays the OK.
penses of the freight, storage, insurance, commits
sions, &c, to Lowell, ard then buys it back from
the Lowell manufacturer, in its wrought shape
paying again not only the profits attendant upon
its fabrication but the same freight expenses, &c.
of the return trip. This is what has made Lowell
a large city--Massachusetts a wealthy State. Let
US have these Lowells at home, make all these
profits, and save all these expenses-and our word
for it, the northern States will soon begin 10 sing
a different tune when speaking of the South.
And, in another point of view, it is vitality i'm
portant that a general system of home Southern
manufacturing should be put in permanent opera
ton. If a sectional contest should ever again
arise between the North and the South, which
Gop his mercy avertl the adoption, nor, of the
policy of home manufacturing, will place us in
such a condition of commercial independence that
we will be enabled successfully to resist, if we
cannot absolutely control, the policy of the North.
This, alone, invests the subject of Southern man.
ufaetsiins " 18th an importance worthy the deepest
and most profound consideration.