The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-12
From the N. r. Dry Goods Commercial Reporter
Direct Trade of the South.

We have noticed with pleasure the advent OF
every new enterprise of genuine promise at the
South. We have long believed that she has
not made that udicious use of the talents in
trusted TO her care which her advantages afford,
and which her necessities require With a
climate and soil, the choicest of the earth, il
should be the home not of hospitality only, but
Of industry, capital and power A change has
begun TO come over the spirit OF her dreams
The swaddng clothes of the infant are about
being torn asunder, and new being will stand
erect, conscious of it, own power, clad with the
toga pirihs Of true dignity and strength We
congratulate the South upon her emancipation
from the letters of Old usages and slumbering
energies.
We have already spoken Of the Brilliant pro-
gress tho South is making in the department Of
manufactures. Every paper we receive adds
fresh evidences of the fact. The spirit of enter.
prise and progress which is rife in their uiidst, is
not confined To one section, nor do the illustra-
tons Of its efficiency belong to one class of OBJ
ects. The spirit Of enterprise is eminently
contagious. Activity begets activity, and euer
gies we'll spent engender new elements Of pro-
gress This fact is fully corroborated by the
sim lltaneousness with which the Southern States
have commenced their march of improvement
The erection of manufactures, the application
of labor TO capital in new FORMS has called into
req1isition larger and more profitable systems
of artificial INSTRUMENTATION Thus rail- Dads
and manufactures have gone hand in hand in.
creasing the necessities OF the eXistence of cach
other, and contributing to their mutual success.
Next TO the above two features of her industri
al progress, we regard the attempt now being
made to establish direct trade with Europe as
ireiqhted with the most incaculable advantages
and enduring results. Wewoud prefer not TO see
its success jeopardzcd by involving it with
questions OF sectional concern or poliiicalnirigue.
Let il stand out by itself alone, towering high
above all other interests Let its consequences
be calculated, and it's influence measured. Let
antagonistc feelings be compromised, and their
united efforts will succeed in periectiug great
and magnificent work. The position which the
South is fast acquiring demands it, The benefits
which would accrue from its establishment
would be immediate as well as lasting
The great States of South Carolina, Georgia.
Alabama and Tennessee, bound together they
soon shall be by their railroads, possess within
themselves elements which will secure the &C
complement of almost any object Their re-
sources are exhaustless and the results of their
labor abundant. Already they supply the mar
kets of the world with the great staple of cotton.
The products Of their fields will bring remunera.
tive prices at all times if sent to the proper mar
kets. Heretofore they have been content TO
dispose of them in such manner ms they could
without any effort on their part. They have
| most usually passed through long and irrcgu-
| lar circuit in finding a market for consumption.
! Their cotton their rice and their sugar, which
! find their consumers on the continent pass first
to Savannah or Mobile, or New Orlerns, thence