The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-25
The Advantage OF Cotton manuf.otor,e..

When Cotton is ten cents pound, the charges
attending its transportation to Liverpool amount to
over four cents pound. The Cotton which comes
back to us in the manufactured fabrics, pays first
the charges Of export, profit to the manufacturer
and all the charges attending the return. New
Orleans exports 100000 bales, which, at ten
cents, would amount to $45,000,OOO. The cost o
transportation will more than cover all the expense
OF converting the raw article into yarns and the
various kinds of cloths. So that if the English
would spin and weave for nothing, il would be a
better business for us to manufacture it at home
and pay our own people for their work. This mil.
lion, worth now only $45,00O,0 900, if converted into
yarns and coarse cottons, will be worth $3.50 OOO.
900. If it is asked how this wealth is to be re-
tanned, the answer is obvious. Divert part of the
slave labor from the field to the factory. Diminish
the quantity Of the raw material and increase that
OF the manufactured This will keep up the prices
OF both. The banks of the Mississippi are the true
places for Cotton Mills. The supply of fuel is in.
exhaustible Coal floats down to the factory bv
the cheapest channel in the world Corn, flour.
meat all the comforts of life, will be brought to
the gates of the factory. The slaves will form the
most efficient and the cheapest operatives. Thus,
instead Of paying away millions on the cost Of
freight, millions for the labor of foreign artisans
and the use of foreign capital, we can save all this
If England can afford to buy our Cotton, carry it
across the Atlantic, manufacture it and then resbp
It to this country, can not afford to make it at
home! Why should there not be a factory upon
every bluff on the Mississippi? The present sys-
tenn OF employing slave labor in agriculture exclu-
sively is suicidal. The independence of the South
will be effected, not by secesson-not by anv DO
Iitical revolutionbut by the bloodless revolution
Of labor. Every cotton factory established. is a
blow struck for the only independence we want
Instead of prating about Southern Confederacv.
let Southern planters establish factories. Georgia
has led off in the good work-South Carolina is
following with tardy steps. The Powder Maya
zine OF Charleston is source of anxiety and alarm
only to its citizens But Graniteville is her true
Gibraltar. Why should not Louisiana take hold of
the subject! May not the overfows which are so
'njuriously affecting the lands of lower Louisiana
result after all in great gain The factory has no
overflow to fear, no late early FROST no drought
no caterpillar. Its crop is safe, subject to no CON-
ingencies-no casualties. II is controlled BY man,
Independent of the elements. As an investment
Tor security, for certainty of results and uniformity
Of income, it has no superior One of the evils to
which other manufacturing establishments are SUBJ
ect, does not exist here There can be no seces-
'soatsts in the Southern factory A strike is a
moral impossibility. And yet with all these adj
'anages in favor Of dvertng part of the labor from
departments suffering from over employment none
If the Louisiana slave owners have the energy and
,oldness to engage in the new and most profitable
employment