New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-27
\ u Ao.rnsnrrs COTTON MANurA oruRns.

~. followinr account Of the cotton manufac-
turee. ETC., of Holyoke, Mass, We publish u
With a view of spending few comments
EIolvoke is a small town but the motion Of
straw shows just as accurately which way the
wind blows, as the proudest vane On the summit
of the loftiest steeple, and an humble iliussra.
ton yindicates and proves an Important iao'
or principle, just as unerringly % reiesence
n IN most ponderous authorities Ihefelofe,
Holvoke answers our purpose as well as would
Z owell Lawrence, or any other great manufac-
turing town. Here is the paragraph adverted
| to: .,..,.. ,ss
I'M and lass females and during the year ending with
he III Of June, 1856, 426 9S5 pounds OF cotton were
~ 125l7lI9 yards II miles Of cloth raanu-
sscfured, the gross value OF which was VI pe
this 1os 600 pounds Of yarn ssusS a AZ " ma
eh;aerv Was manufactured giving employing 70 IVY
hands The quantity of stock used In the paper mi WI
xs,ne II ina manufactured article $4,000 value q
eotten and wooden cards manufactured $50 OF piano
and card wire sl4Go0 Of power loom PooYV
| and of power loom reeds, Slzo0. 4#& q
Well, what do we deduce from the foregoing
| We viii proceed to show. Holyoke 10 now an-
lauestionably, thriving little place. Le' US
II yast;uate the souroes-the living and sus-
4 tanning sprinrs-of its thrift. A hasty cal
4 ou1at;on demonstrates that, of its aggregate
nopnlation. 1893 persons derive their support
exclusively from the proceeds Of the employ
ment which the manufacture Of raw co1toh
Affords At q reasonable estimate, each OF the
naraons 90 employed supports two others COM
nosed Of children, aged or intirm parties, ms
would make the grand total Of individuals sus-
tanned by cotton, 4479, We find, also. that
i 4. 1857 1856 pounds Of raw cotton we're manuiacr
4 tnred during The year ending on the lst OF
lime. 1855, making seue,s and half miles Of
e,oth. valued at 81, 16l ,l78; l00,0oo pounds OF
/ warn were also spun during the same period.
Flowing directly from the manufacture Of COT
4 ton--for there would have been no necessity
for machinery without ootton--we ma tnae
ss25 900 worth Of machinery was ianricatea,
giving work to 500 hands. Assuming that our
4 sormer calculation is correct, and that each OF
n these hands supported two other persons, we
i have AGO persons, which, added to the number
4 above riven, 4479, we have complete total o.
lba7e human beings maintained and supported
i directly and indirectly, by fabricating the
! slave grown staple Of the Southern States. The
other branches Of industry enumerated propa'
bly. gave employment to one Or two hundred
additional persons.
i For aurht we know, Holyoke is pestilsn
lnest Of Aholitionists. The probabilities or
mat il is; for majority Of the people Of Mas
: saehusetts appear to have partaken OF the IN
sane root. and TO have become furious and de-
mented. Very likely we, Of the South, are stig
j matizea BY them as constituting the worst com
bination and concentration Of oil that 10 ina
nous, vile and yillainous
Yet, they gladly buy our cotton fabrieate
. into coarse and fine goods, make money from tn
1 products Of slave labor, become rich and strong
and oyerbearing, and more righteous than thei
il neighbors therefrorn, and then turn round an
tell us--the real architects Of their fortunes-
that we are the basest wretches upon earth
dealers in lesh and blood, oppressors, slave DIR
} yers, and the like. If there was the smalles
!. smount Of honesty in their pretensions, If the
were as righteous as they assume to be, and
their assertions exercised any control over thei
actions, they would at once refuse to buy slave
crown cotton, to grow rich by the fabrication
!. slave. grown cotton, or wear any garment mai
u ufaotured from slave-grown cotton II the
ne would do this we would be constrained to accol
q them the merit Of sincerity, while We regretts
the hallucination under which they labored.
~ From the figures taken from the Massachl
N setts paper, it is clearly evident that Holyol
would be nothing without slage-grown cotto1
!. The same thing may be said about every man,
featuring city and village in the State, Witt
out slave grown cotton Lowell would withs
J, into nothingness sooner than did Jonah's gour
" So would Lawrence So would innumerab
K other affiuent and improving points, Near
d one hundred millions of invested, and now pro-
. table capital, would become worthless, al
g thousands and tens Of thousands, if not hui
dreds Of thousands Of people, would be throw
out Of employment, should an event they see
70 most DESTROYS to bring about-the abolition
4 alavsry-be accomplished.
. There can be no doubt OF it, All histol
\ and experience proves the proposition Abe
y ish slavery, and no cotton will be raise
. and without cotton where would Holyol
% Lowell or Massachusetts, actually be Whe
would England be? Why, she would soon
+ undertake to conquer thousand Sebastopt
!, than 20 without cotton twelve months! S
q might enter upon war with all the nations
9 the earth, except the United States, with |,
i danger. The "sea-girt isle is impregnable
" hostile attacks !. but deprive her of cotton a
2 the stupendous fabric would speedily orumt
4 to its very foundation. The flag that for
: thousand years has braved the battle and t
q breeze, has to veil its naughty crest before
!. humble, slave-grown cotton bale, and all t
! mock philanthropy and expensive sympatl
:, that has been bestowed upon the branded d
! scendants Of Ham is as worthless as the pueri
!. ties Of an idiot or the rawlings Of a wanton.
~ Really, we're the question of slavery left g
!. olusively to Massachusetts, and England,
i. would not carry. The people there like to
dulge in the luxury Of mourning over
y imaginary woes Of others Of investing larg'
;. in sympathy that costs nothing and of pars
!. ing before the world the fact that they prof
!. to be the most exquisite philanthropists extar
n But, touch their pockets-tell them that
n dimes are in danger-that further indulgeI
4 in philanthropy will be ruinous--and they v
~ pitch sympathy, .'Sambo" and philanthrol
! overheard in the shortest possible order.
" the fact go forth that the abolition of slave
!. would result in closing all the cotton mills