The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-08-14

each, and an academy, where education and school
books can be had gratuitousy. There are several
stores well furnished with every description OF goods
usual in country villages and an orderly and we'll
kept hotel. No liquor is sold within reach of the
factory, and there Temperance Associations
which tend to promote sobrety and good order
The whole air OF the village breathes wholesome
spirit of quiet ind ustry and honest independence;
and the very sight OF the machinery, all of the best
quality, and in the most complete order, working
with the incest accuracy and the greatest efficiency
impresses the mind with an active and energetic
impulse. The operatives, consisting of near three
hundred men, women, and children, all in appa-
rent good health and Spirits seemed TO feel the in
huence of the enginery by which they
rounded and attended to their various duties with
promptness, and skill, and cheerfuness that it
was pleasing to behold. The wages, too--the wages
for beautiful and pleasant as Granitevillc is and
happy as the working people appear, 1t must not be
supposed that they are fed and clothed either by
fancy magic; that their liberal employers say
to them in the language OF one of shakspeares cha
racters,
'Ill employ thee, but do not look for further re-
compense, than thine own gladness that thou art
employed'-the wages are such as to enable every
one to make reasonable support. Many families
live comfortably upon the labor OF themselves
their children; and what is a great point gained,
instead of this kind of labor being deemed disre-
putable and degrading, each person seems to feel
attached to the place and to the peculiar task al
lotted them, and an honest pride of industry APP
pears to be generally felt. The congregations on
sunday consisted Of well dressed and we'll behaved
persons, who certainly bore marks of being
overworked, and more order and quiet tho
Christian Sabbath could scarcely have prevailed
anywhere. One feature In the arrangements at
Graniteville struck me peculiarly favorable. Ii
was that the family principle seemed to be very
much preserved Instead Of large boarding. houses,
where the people would be crowded together, the
houses were built for the accommodation of fami-
lies, and in many cases were occupied by separate
families; but even where boarders taken, the
number was not SO large as to destroy the feeling
hone
has been, that degree of morality and propriety
has been maintained, that, considering what va
riety of persons have been gathered together, and
from what a variety Of quarters, 10 very remark
able. An increased interest in the subject Of reH
gion has been felt recently and additions have been
made to both of the churches.
"The quantity of cloth manufactured during the
last year near a million and half of yards,
and they have received the first prizes at two fairs
that OF the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and
that of the South Carolina Institute, Charleston.
1.-The influence of Granitcvie upon the mechan-
ical and industrial character of our population
will doubtless be immense. Many lad who has
genius for mechanics business, but who
would otherwise have probably rusted III obscurity,
Will there be stimulated to mental development
which will enrich and illustrate, not only himself
but his State. II is the pride Of South Carolina,
that while many of her distinguished and useful
citizens have sprung from the old and time hon
ored stock of her first settlers, very many others
have risen to the very highest places, aided and
sustained only by their intrinsic talent and hardy
perseverance, and by that fostering care which she
has ever given to the humblest of her citizens.
May she pursue wise, and LIBERAL and temperate
policy in regard to the factory system, which is
springing up within her bosom, Gas she has done,
let me say with the ingenious pride of one of her
sons as to every thing else,) and we shall
an impulse given to all departments of business
and labor that will astonish not only her enemies
but herself. She is not old; she is not decrepd;
she Is not worn out; she is not without resources
spirit Her disease is excellence carried to a
fault. Her disorder is too much dignity. Let her
stoop a Lttle-not to meanness. No, never; but to
work-to toil-to hard, honest, profitable toll. Let
her strip herself not Of those laures which her
have woven around her brow, and of which even
death shall never divest her; not of that hardy adj
hesiveness to principle which, like her own Pal
metto branches, rustles the proudest when left alone
to the Storm but of that tenacious devotion to
the line of things that have been, which, like a
robe Of beauty and stateliness proves too cumber-
some for everyday wear. Let her but come down
to the homeliness and wholesomeness of her duties
and her station, and instead of looking sadly and
hopelessly at her decline, her yet TO be born
will catch the inspiration of her watchword, and
cxclaim in the darkest hour: Dunn spiro spero.' "