Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-12-07

aTHE FIRST SOUTHERN LoooMoTIvE.-A Georgia |
made locomotive win soon be completed ct the /
shop of Messrs Noble, 10 Rome Ga. This 10 the
6rst locomotive ever built south of the Potomac"
The above item we find floating In the papers
OF the country, and take OCCASION 10 correct
the error. During the years 1898, nine loco
motives were built in this city, By Nashville Manu-
featuring Compsny, one of which was sent to the
Meuphis and Charleston Railroad. The others
were purchased by the Nashville AID Chattanooga
Railroad These locomotives have proved them.
selves upon thorough trial to be more durable and
powerful than those purchased from the NORM
and used by the roads named above.-Patriot.
We are grstifed with the increasing evidences
of Mechanical and Commercial prosperity in the
South. It augures the dawn of new era, long
talked of and hoped for, but which it seemed i'm
possible to reach. With all our superior sdvants-
0es of soil, climate and population, we have per-
mitted Yankee ingenuity and enterprise, schooled
in their necessities, to reap the profits OF oar labor
and to revel in the wealth that might have been
ours BY right. The palaces Of the rich merchant
nrin,es of the eastern cities, their Lowells and
other great manufacturing towns, their great print
ing emporiums and institutions OF learning, have
all been built up and sustained in great measure
ont OF the pockets of Southern people We per-
rnitted the incubus to grow upon US until the great
natural arteries of the South were stsgnsnt and
bsr internal strength almost pslsied beyond resusi-
,stion. Commerce, Manufactures, Trade, all have
bssn neglected and undeveloped, for the want of
arch necessities as the sterile poverty of the
North produced, sharpening their wits and quick
ening their enterprise.
satisfied with what Nature had done for Us, we
have been content for the North to manufacture
our products, monopofise our commerce, regulate
our nricss and FIX their own profits TO their liking
Instead of dependents they are claiming now to
ba masters until the grinding necessities have
baap shifted from their shoulders to ours 1t is
o,r time now to look to selEpreservstion.
What have we to do1 Simply to learn that
thera il no reason why railroad locomotive
NAV not be hamered out by the skill otthe mechanic
;, Tanne.ses az well as in Msssachusetts-thst
there is no reason why railroad car may not De
L.zo,tnsn in New A1k-thst the hundred and
ono things for which we are dependent upon Gin
cinust and Pittsburg can be Just IS well made st
home if we would only think SO. It's remaFka-
he 10 reflect that not only are we dependent upon
the looms and spirdss of the North for the manu-
f,cture of large portion OF our cotton ana
unon Northern merchants to ship II 70 Europe
sar IA hut cannot buy the simplest prlmmer
for our children nor pAything for their amuse-
,nent without contributing to the wealth OF
Northern manufacturer. Most every thing we
use about our houses, from the knives anal orks
we eat with to our family bibles are purchased Of
rho North. Custom and habit has sc grown upon
MS in these respects, that the North having grown
rich st our expense now feels called on TO supply
oBr moral restitution from her over abundance Of
preachers and to build up our schools and colleges
with her surplus teachers.
Looking at this question in an economic point
of view and aside from its important political
bearing. if the south would grow rich and Prospe-
rous ike the north-if we would have our cites
Swinging I'D Is if by magic-our towns busy with
the hum of industry-our fair country poisoning
a. the rose--the steam car tracking over every
mountain and every Vsle-we must develop our
own resources establish our own factories, print
our own books, furnish our own preachers and
sescbers-ye must ct least relieve ourselves from
che monopoly the north has built up, and establish
our Independence of the abJect control which abe
now exercises over our commercial and manufacture
ing concerns.
We believe the time has at last come when the
south will rapidly retrivs her lost fortunes and rise
TO thst dignity and power which 10 legitlmately
bers. We believe the people of the south are pre-
psred to encourage every effort to establish and
deyeIops manufacturing and commercial resources
szithiu themselves Let our own men OF enter
prise take courage, and the common sid of al be
contributed to result in whitehall are SO vitality in
terestsd.