The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-22

IN yoaf issg number Oi the neceesliJ ana
utility Of southern Rights Association
now propose. 70 speak Of what should be
the object Of suea Associations. II the
North continues her eueroachmenis, aud
Inc soa.h r%esists, we shall Of course be
thrown entirely upon our W resources.
Consequently our Industrial habits and Po-
ltieal economy. must undergo a very great
change. Instead Of producing our great
.,aple for the world and exchanging Il with
other nations for all our manufactured ar'l-
cles, at their own prices, we must WORK up
our material at home, and produce every
thing ourselves, so far as It Is in our power
Di iision of labor requires that individuals
should give their attention wholly to partic-
Mar branches of business, but this Is not so
with nations where a community or a peo-
pie produces only one article OF commerce
many Of its energies and resources are was
ted. Our manufactures and our market
are now too far from home, our wear and
tear and waste are too great; the pIow the
loom and the anvil should be brought and
set down together in our midst, and the
muItitudes of white population now unpro.
ductive should arise and begin to produce
the sinews of power; nearly all the ten
thousand articles of luxury aud utility we
see ourselves surrounded with every day,
purchased in the North, could be manutac-
tured here at home, by the energies which
are now wasted for want of ways and
means Of being proftably expended -
Our railroads, public Improvements and
modes of conveyance should compete with
those of the North; the ships that crowd
at the wharves of New Orleans, Mobile
and Charleston should be owned by South
ern capital and manned by Southern men,
at least to a great extent. Schools and
colleges should be established and sufficient
ly endowed and furnished with competent
teachers, to keep our sons and daughters at
home.
II a right use is made of events, this pc
riod of history may be the opening OF a
glorious era for the South. If it is not suf-
f~iciently evident now it requires but little
effort to show, that we possess within our
selves all the elements of wealth and
strength. A planter from the interior of
state, who has always lived at home,
labored honestly for a living and made good
but has not been able to lay up much
of his hard earnings, concludes to take a
trip to the Northern States he ome to
the Mississippi and is amazed at those
princely palaces that ride upon the bosom
of the majestic stream, he arrives at the
crescent city and beholds the goIgerous dis
plays of wealth and fortunes that have been
built up in a day, as it were he continues
his Journey to New York and Boston, Wis.
Its such places as Lowell, Manchester
Lawrence, Saco and Exeter, and sees the
immense fortunes of the Lawrences, the Alb
bolts and the Lowels. After passing
through all the interesting scenes OF such 9
trip, he returns home to his own plantation
and sits down to reflect. The first question
he naturally asks himself is: Whence
have been accumulated the immense masses
of wealth scattered all along my journey
course? And this question is no soone
asked than answered, that "they are mad
mostly off of the South While the Nortl
is becoming studded with hourishing cite
and growing richer and richer in commerce
and manufactures, the cotton end suga
lands and rich savanahs Of the South ar
becoming too poor for habitation. Tn
planters make the crops, but the commits
sion merchants, shippers and manufactures
make the money. Such is the concluslo
any one m ist come TO upon a moments re
Election.
Now cannot this process Of inpogerisl
ing and depletion be checked Z! Cannc
this great silence way Of our wealth and sta
PIE products be stopped Cannot we mar
ufacture, ourselves, and furnish the read
made article, as well as the raw material
t.
In my opinion, experiments enough hav
been made to show that we can. Bu
says one, we cannot plant and manufacture
at the same time in reply, | would sa
that the planter can plant and his neighbC
can manufacture. There is unemployed 4
Dor enough in the South to do its manufa,
turing let mills, factories and various otl
t er improvements be introduced among i
and a vast amount of energy now dormar