The southern press., 1851-10-28
From The .Neio York Dry Goods Reporter.
Hauuinc ctures ut the South.

| The history or manufacturers Is singular huu
useful one, whether we regard it as matter OF
industrial enterprise or political speculation
Nations, rs we'll as individuals, are sometimes
compelled to serve apprenticeships and nothing
illustrates this remark as we'll as the history of
those countries which, by their manufactures,
have become wealthy and independent. We will
90 no further back than TO the time when Eng
land was in condition of yassalagc to Holland
and the Netherlands, in respect to this most im
portant feature of her industry and greatness.
The markets of London, we are informed, were
filed with iron, lumber and leather ready
manufactured The English grew food for the
Dutch, and the Dutch ate it, wool for the Dutch,
and the Dutch wove it," But this condition
listed only long enough for England to become
as thoroughly acquainted with manufacturing AZ
her ta-kmaster was; when, throwing off the
shackles which made her dependent, that impe-
rial system of British manufactures was estab
lished which has reared an empire the most
magnificent in wealth and power the world has
ever seen.
America, in her colonial condition, was to
Great Britain, what Great Britain had been to the
German States. The House of Commons so
considered IT, whsn they declared that the
erecting of manufactures In tho colonies tended
10 lessen their dependence upon the g,other
country" II is we'll known TO every Que at all
conversant with the early history of his country,
that it was only after our political independence
was achieved tNat we turned our attention to
profitable manufactures. And no lover of his
country can ever forget, that from the year 1907
to 1915, during the embargo, non-intercourse act,
and the war; dates our industrial independence
of Great Britain; and that those Very acts gave
an impetus to manufactures, trade and business,
which were beyond precedent profitable.
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cite sectional jealousy, or persuade the South
that she has been in condition Of degrading
vassalage to the North. We only wish the South
to feel that the term of her apprenticeship has
expired. We would desire to Impress upon the
minds of her people the conviction that the ad
vantages which they possess over the North for
the manufacture of cheap and coarse goods (for
to manufacture the finer qualities will require
more experience and capital than they now pos
ses,O are many and important. Cheap living,
low wages, cheap cotton, coal and iron, consti-
tute the great elements of success in the intro
ducton and successful prosecution of cotton
manufacture. No country in the world posses
Ses these elements IN a degree equal to the
Southern and Southwestern States. Hereto
fore the capital and industry of this large section
| of the country haye been almost entirely devoted
to agricultural pursuits. by diversifying their
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sure their independence both of England and the
| North while their labor, thus diversified, is made
| more profitable to themselves. the cotton is
ready at their doors, and costs them one cent per
pound less than it does the Northern manuflc
turer. The cost of transportation from the
field TO aome Southern port thence to Northern
factories, the cost ofinsuraCce, payment of agen-
ces, profits to manufactu-ers, qqd cost of retrans-
portaton back in the form Of cloth AL these are
Items which 90 to swell the difference in he pro-
fits which the Northern and Southern manufac
turer receives.
Nor are we without hope that the interest
which has bean excited on this suSajjAct Will not
be prohtless Already it is estimated tha'
Georgia has in operation 40 cotton mills, using
10000 spindles, and consuming $4,000 bales of
cotton annually! IN Tennessee there are 80 fac
| tories, and 10000 spindles; in South Carolina
there are l6 factories, $4,000 spindles and 100
looms. consuming is 900 bales of cotton; Ala.
bama has IA factories, 1850 spindes, and 800
looms, consuming $500 bales Of cotton. Thus
| in four States alone there are 80 factories, be-
sides those in process of building, working 40,
600 spindes, consuming probably $4,000 bales
of cotton annually, and, If they 90 on increasing
for the next FIVE years as they have for the past
| FIVE, we may safely calculate on some 200 cot.
| ton mills in operation in the Southern States,
consuming annually over 100000 bales Of cot.
ton, and giving employment to some thirty or
forty Thousand operatives,
Thus we see the work mas already commenced.
Southern planters have the monopoly of this
great staple. They will not hereafter be so en-
! trely at the mercy of English or Northern pur.
| chssers, They can manufacture that description
of goods mostly in demand by the planters
themselves, such as ossaburgs, sheetings, yarns,
Jeans and linseys cheaper by Far than their com
petitors They can lay the foundation for fu-
ture wealth and power as Great Britain did
| They will add both to their commercial and po-
tical power They will encourage the immi
grafton of an Industrious, hardy and euterprising
population. BY this increase of population and
of wealth, the Southern States will be enabled
to bind themselves together by network of
railroads They can perfect their internal i'm
provements increase the facilities of intercom-
municaton, develop their boundless resources,
and become what they long since should have
been, among tbs richest, most active and power
ful States of the Union.
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