The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-12-10
[For the South Western

. and improvements, and that these are neceSSar
to give our social and political system that de
gree of strength which will procure for us tn
! respect and proper Difference of neighbour!
States and of the world, | propose in practica
way Though requiring some little lberality
, if not sacrifice at the start, on the part of GU
Ecitizens to make an effort TO relieve our neigh
borhood of dependence on other Stays for
few of the necessaries of life, for which no in
considerable amount Of our annual expendi
lures are made, and for the production ofwhicl
we have unsurpassed resources and material a
home.
1st. I propose to be one of one hundred in
dividuals who will each give, or loan for tern
of years without interest, one hundred dollars
in all ten thousand dolars-to any intelligent
competent and reliable mechanic, W 10 will es
tablish and maintain for five years in CUR parish
a leather and shoe mandatory of suficien
capacity to supply the wants of the citizens o
this and the surrounding country trading t
EShreveport. ..-
Cd / will be one of hundred, who will give
in the same way 500 each, to any reliable ant
competent mechanic, who will establish man
ufactory of ploughs and agricultural nipple
ments in this parish, capable of supplying the
entire wants Of our planters and others who gel
their supplies through Shreveport,
1t is to be understood as a condition of the
above, that prices are to be as low as the same
articles can be imported from other States and
sold for by our merchants.
3D. l will, likewise, be one of hundred who
will give $25 each, to establish mechanical
and agricultural fair in Caddo parish, for the
encouragement and promotion of those depart
ments of industry.
| 1t occurs to my mind that an effort, or rather
determination, on the part of southerners to
create and sustain manufactures will draw to
our midst large increase Of productive white
labor, in which element our State is deficient,
and which it must have to make it independent,
great and powerful. There are certain contin-
gencies, some of which it is probable will be
brought about by the fanatical antagonism
which the citizens of most of the northern States
have assumed towards the SOUTH when we will
be thrown on our internal resources for the alb
solute necessaries of life, and which we may be
deprived of for a time, unless we emulate the
example of those same northern States and of
Europe, in fostering every branch of industry
do not envy the north its growth in popula-
ton, its enterprise, its learning, or its great
ness, but claim that the same reasons which
have impelled her onward in all those respects
appeal now to US. There is an intense section
al anxiety and struggle going on in the north
ern mind for supremacy in the management of
the general government, and this they wish to
possess exclusively for no other reason than to
humi]late and oppose the institutions and pro-
gress ofthe south. The contamination of the
schemes developed in the recent presidential
contest would, in my estimation, be the greatest
calamity that could befall the world Shall we
prevent it, is the question in point, and how is
this to be done, unless we of the south hold out
inducements to intelligent white immigration.
and in this way regain an equality in the fran
chlse OF the government, as we'll as industrial
and military strength.
believe that the whole south is waking up to |
the Importance of the subjects presented above,
and as an individual | am disposed to put my
shoulder to the wheel in cur own State and give
a forward movement The subject demands
the consideration of planters. On
he scale indicated, the two establishments I
nave proposed to build up, will probably en-
oloy one hundred hands The money paid to
hese hands would be put in circulation again
n our parish and the whole community be ben
There is an abundance of surplus capital in c
ur midst to start dozen similar establish
nents, and in the appropriation of which no one !
,ould be the poorer SoUrHERsER. a
Shreveport, December 9, 1856
IHE BRITISH IN NEW GRANADA-John Bull t
AS sent fleet to New Granada to collect debt.
was the affair of one of the Mackintoshes-
ngllsh subjects, well known in various Cen y
al and South American States for many wears, a
) largely engaged in business and in specula-
ons. The old Columbian government owed q
EN- large sums, and when that confederation
ssolved, New Granada assumed to paw her &c
oportlon. TWAS afterwards put into the Shape tt
an agreement between New Granada and ~
reat Britain that the debt should be paid in a Co
certain way. The New Granadian govern
ent do not deny the liability, but dispute the Of
1ount They set up claim for certain credits nc
llch reduce the amount largely. Lord Pal up
'rston will not listen to any such pleas for on
atement or delay. He will allow no discus DO
n OF the old accounts, but must have bis "itt
'ney, and that without delay. The Granada ito
ople won't pay, what they say is unjust, on of
n peremptory notice under compulsion; and ed
d Paimerston, following bis own precedent, Nei
which he collected from the king of Greece ap1
little bill of the famous Don Pacifico, has of
led execution and sent down few ships of cor co
I to serve it. Oh
Perhaps these people owe the money, altho' thy
y pretend they do not Still this proceed VIII
OF Great Britain, in coercing feeble State an.
is, to say the best of it, harsh c or
inconsistent. IfNew Granada were State citi
armies and fleets, which could not be as ciel
ed without resistance, we should not hear Gus
eprsals and hostilities on disputed account fror
IRE would, on the contrary, be some defer pail
to the right of independent opinion be- and
en- States, and the British journals would be ch L
mated with so much of the spirit of peace as abo
eprecate any collision between two govern rain
It's, without some renewed effort at accom- T
iatlon, at least, by resort to the arbitration pi
power witt
our disputes. with Portugal, when it was as c
posed that this government, weared out with A
frivolous delays and obstinacs in wrong VIII; wr,'
about to send fleet to Lisbon to enforce J pss,
'ttlement, the British journals acclaimed in a
INST 1t as mschieyous disturbance of tbe Dix