The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-03-14
From the Louisiana STATE Republican,
Southern Manufactures.

S0uLleT0 WdQ0IdCCuT6Ss
The recent sectional controversy has been
productive of, most excellent results, in one re-
spect 1t has caused the Southern people to look
nearer home for articles necessary TO their COM
fort and luxury 1t has induced them to patronize
home mechanics and artisans-home industry
in ali branches Of mechanism, home manufac-
tured cotton fabrics, ETC., in greater degree
than they were ever known TO before. 1t has
stimulated the building of more factories, en-
larged the business of the ones in operation, and
wakened spirit of enterprise among the South
ern people, which we hope will not be allowed
again TO slumber, until we'll directed energy
shall have rendered the South commercially in-
dependent of our Northern brethren. This can
be done in very short time-in very few
years-if Southern enterprise, assisted by Sou
thern capital and patronage, is set properly to
work. Let the cotton be manufactured in the
States where it is grown, let the Sugar be re-
fined at home, instead of sending it abroad and
paying all the expenses of transit, as we'll as
profits of fabrication. to English and Northern
capitalists and mill owners, and the thing will
be done-and glorious era will have dawned
upon the fortunes of the South.
Among the numerous instances of the graft
flying progress which Southern manufactures
are making in almost all directions, we noticed
with great pleasure, the announcement that a
"Paper Manufacturing Company" had been
formed in South Carolina, and that it would
commence operations in six months upon an
extensive scale. Success to the enterprise, say
we, with all our heart. We wish it was in oul
power to chronicle the frution of similar en-
terprise in Louisiana Our South Carolina
kbai~ mill uofc in
operation, be enabled ID write their fiery pream-
bIes and resolutions, ifthey choose. on their oacn
paper, "a thing, we imagine, they have not vel
been able to do,) and i they have any geese in
the State, (feathered, we mean.) can obtain a
sufficient number of homerais quilts TO an
swer their purposes. We consider this paper
mill project comparatively small affair though
it NAV be, of more real value to the State and
to the South, than all of the high-sounding bull
letins written and published by her sons, upon
Northern paper, by Nrthern peas, with Northern
ink, for the past six months. Let South Caro-
lima continue to erec paper mills. cotton facto-
ries, and develop her great natural resources
and she will soon find that the right sort of act
ing is more profitable, if not more respectable
than the strongest dolbly-dstied sort of talking.
Georgia has become the leading Southern
Otdt6 py tte eHleEpftbe Ol neT SOILS III eIeCltbS
factories, building railroads, and developing, in
many other ways her unrlvalled gifts of nature.
Alabama is nobly folbwiDg her example. We
wish that Louisiana vas not so supne as she is,
but we have great hopes of her tor the future.
Mississippi has several cotton factories in sues
cessful operation, aid Tennessee is gaNantly
striving TO lead the van in the great cause Of
Southern relief from Northern commercial thrall.
She has cotton factories, woolen factories, and
iron fonndries, and furnaces for smelling her
own native iron ore.
1t is by such means that the South will be best
able to resist the aggressive encroachments OF
the North. 1t is by such means that we can
best make the Northern intermedders feel, and
at the same time compel them to respect our
power and our rights. 1t is, by showing them
that We can manufacture as well as.produce the
necessaries of life--that we are determined to
be no longer dependent upon them for almost
everything-that We will no longer pay them
the tribute which has made them rich, and re-
ceive abuse IN return-that we can ensure ''se-
curty for the future" if not "indemnity for the
past.
An eloquent writer most truthfully observed
recently, that the building up and encourage
ment OF irregular system of Home industry is
the 'plllar OF cloud by day, and pillar OF nre 0v
night" which alone will guide the Southern
States from the perils which always environ tic
weaker party in sectional controversy, to the
haven of safety. The proposition cannot be
| coniroverted; for while the weaker party is de-
pendent on the stronger for almost everything
necessary 10 civilized life, the position is one. o.
comparative helpnessness. There may be latent
strength existing. but it is the might Of the gi.
ant settered Therefore. the necessity is appa-
rent, and must be remedied, if we would evei
achieve the position we talk so much about
We must refine our sugar; spin and weave oul
own cotton and wool; fuse and work up our owr
minerals; improve our navigabe streams. ant
develop the capacities of the country, where
artificial aid is needed, by the use Of the iror
horse. Let these things be done. and there vii
be no more necessity for talking about Northern
oppression. Then, the North will be as depen
dent upon the South for many things, of tht
highest importance, as we are now upon her
One cotton factory, running 1000 spindles, vii
do more real good to the South, than the holding
Of 365 Nashville Conventions, and twice tina
number of Congresses.