The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-18
From the North Carolina Star.
PEOPLE OF the South ReadI!

People q Norfh Carolina, especially, read! Re
fleet! Seize the opportunity!
We have often urged upon the citizens OF
North Carolina the importance of entering large
ly into the business Of manufacturing. 1t is the
best investment that can be made for individual
proiit--the best for the public welfare. This
can be easily demonstrated by figures; and the
capitalists of the State, who have plenty of
money to lay out in bank stock ut $l20 per
share, would do well to portion of it for
this highly profitable and useful enterprise. Let
them hear and weigh the testimony of one who
knows MIR. James, the newly elected senator
from Rhode Island, has set in motion as large a
number of spindles as any other man, and has
an extensive knowledge Of the practical opera
tons of the enterprise. He says the Scuh has
''many advantages for manufacturing her o,on
cotton that the North DOES NOT possess and
that by using her natural advantages, she could
"MoNoPoLlzE THE WHOLE BUSINESS" This is
true, every word of it; and it addresses itself d.
rectly 10 the understandings and pockets of
Southern statesmen and Southern capitalists,
with force thai must carry conviction to every
mind The South has Gotten on the spot, the
product of her own fields, and that cotton costs
the Southern manufacturer less per pound, by
about two COSTS than it costs the manufacturer
at the North. This saving alone from the cost
of the manufactured fabric at the Northern
MILL will amount to at least six per cent, per
annum on the capital Of the mill, and which,
added to the profits of Northern manufactures,
must be much greater than the profits of the cot
ton field. Mr. James adds:
"if she will accelerate her peace and keep
away from the North, and achieve and maintain
the relative power and influence she truly de-
serves, she must do as the North does She
must cease to purchase from abroad every manu-
featured article she wants, from steam engine
to penny whistle, and make them for herself;
and, if need be, for others There is no branch
of business, especially at this moment, that is
more worthy of her attention than the manufac-
ture of cotton there is none in which she can
so readily engage, none more profitable. There
is none, to her, half as important; no one that
would so rapidly increase her wealth and popu-
lation, enhance her political power and inhu-
ence, and enable her to cease to be tributary to
the North. No doubt, such aggresslons have
frequently found place in your mind. In my
view, they are the most powerful cnes that can
be offered. And if these, and the train of argu-
ment to be deduced from them, prove insufficient
to accomplish the object you have in view, it
might as well be given up in dispair."
The construction of the central railroad Open
ing the way to the markets of the world, will
remove every objection that conld arise against
making North Carolina a manufacturing rs well
as an agricultural State, and now is the time to
commence rearing factories all along within
reach of the line--let them go up pari pdssu
with the road. They will mutually aid each other,
and set each other off with life and animation
from the moment they go into operation.