The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-10-08

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ern Rights Of the newspapers of the State,
we recullect but one that has not maintained
the necessity of resisting tine fastening OF
Northern supremacy upon us. The whole
matter has been so discussed and stted, and
we have arrived with such unanimty to the
same general conclusions, that we are weary
of further treating it as matter either OF
exposition or of exhortation. We need no ar.
vul,,ent.., we understand it. We need no inl-
passioned appeals. we are ready to act. Here
is the whole secret of the quietude of South
Carolina.
But in a quiet way, some practical steps
have been taken. In nearly all the Districts,
Southern Rights Associations have already
been formed, and these Associations will soon
contain on enrolment all organization OF the
whole people of the State. The Tribune will
also see in this mornings Mercury the pledge
i,ned by the planters of Prince williams
Parish, which has an exceedingly practical
significance. 1t follows like move in st.
helena Parish; and we are glad to state in this
connection, that the planters of Georgetown,
the richest Rice district of the State, have al
ready acted upon similar agreement, and de-
serve the credit taking the lead in the move
me!.t to Danish Northern vessels from our coast
ing trade.-Chur. .HrrcWy.
Southern Cotton Manufac'urcs.-The fact
that the South can successfully compete Wit
The North in cotton manufactures is now al
most universally allowed. The manufacturer
in New England himself must see the superior
advantage es enjoyed by the Southern manu-
facturer, in having the raw material at hand,
I'd the vast difference in first cost OF the arl-
Gle, in favor of the latter Manufacturing sites
c,u be obtained at the South by the side OF
tha cotton field. There is no deficiency of cap
ital, as is abundantly testified by the amount
vested in works OF internal improvements, stocks
and in every way where it is supposed that a
safe and profitable Investment may he made.
There is no want Of skill or enterprise among
Southern men, and the only remaining item
an industrial class to be employed in the man.
ufacturng cstablishments-is abundant, and
has b.eu proven in the cases Of several manu-.
factories already in operation at the South, to
be most efficient The production of cotton
goods is almost entirely by machinery The
looms in many cases are attended to by mere
children, and even negroes are found to be al
most, if not entirely, rs available in these es-
Establishments as white laborers.
Had the South engaged in the manufacture
of cotton ut the same time that the New Eng
land States did, we have no doubt the manutac-
| turers in the last mentioned quarter, would
long ere this hive been compelled to withdraw
from the field of competition, or, at all events,
confined themselves to the productions of the
finer qualities Of goods. tits within the recol-
lection of us all, when the first cotton manu-
factory was established in the South, and oven
now, we have one quarter as many rs in all
the Eastern States. The progress of Southern
| manufactures has gone OH with but little noise,
but still steadily and rapidly. 1t is estima-
ted TINT there are l75,000 spindles now
running in the cotton States, requiring not
less than 100 900 bales, or about one
fourth of the consu nption Of New England
In 1910, the four States of Tennessee. Alabama,
South Carolina and Georgia. had "a factories
(which number has been much increased with
in the present year. Taking all the Soutaern
States into account, North Carolinl having 20
manufactures, and Virginia, Florida and Mis-.
sissipp each a small number, the sum total may
reasonably be put down at from l40 to $50.
1t Is T"atl Y!nn l:tCt, t.i't' Hi'"S ''ii VIC
Southern States, Georgia stands foremost in
number of cotton manufacturing establishments.
Within few years, more than 40 factories have
been erected within her borders, at a cost Of
one mil ion and a half of dollars. About fifty
Thousand b,lcs are now annually consumed in
these establishments, aiTordhs profitable em-
ployment t" large uunb"r ofndnst|ious ope
ratiyas Tin. manufactures, most of them eX-
permcnts, and built at greater expense than
will hereafter he the cas-, are found to be ex-
ceelnnly prolilable--the dividends, in most in-
stances, being from 20 to 30 per cent.
CaDita!ists in the South have every thing to
encourage them to undertake. the erection OF
cotton mills. The successful operation of those
already established, and the profit arising from
this source, are no longer matters of doubt
The effect they have upon the general prosper
ty Of the section in which they are erected is
felt in the the unusual stimulus they give to
hone enterprises of every description Agri:
cultural products are il greater demand, and
every SPECIES orlabor is required at increased
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