New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-23
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parisI5 Columbian, Of the 18th, with unusual sat
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We trust the praiseworthy effort above referred to
will be attended with unbounded success II started
right conducted right and carried on With skill in
dustry and economy, rtoned in equal degrees,
it cannot fail to succeed And that very success will
crown tile projectors Of the enterprise with nobler
wreath than any and Al the politicians Of the parish
ever on 81 partisan field for they have proved
themselves the real beneactors Of their section %
well Of the State at large besides setting an e1
ample which, if widely followed will rebound more
TO the advantage and consequent business entran.
chisement of the South from the thraldom OF COM
lnercial dependence, than any and everything else
combined. S5Ss3
We, Of the South need never hope for actual indie
pendence until we become manufacturers as well as
producers We must fabricate as well as grow, in
order that we may sell as much AMI buy as little as
possible. There Is no earthly reason why the cotton
growing States should not manufacture every article
OF coarse clothing they require, instead OF sending
the raw material to Lowell and Manchester, paying
all its expenses to those places, and then buying it
back its wrought state, paying the profits of its
fabrication and the expenses of its return. No
solvent reason exists why should longer persist in
this suicidal policy. Therefore, we hail with lively
satisfaction every fort that opens up prospect that
ourpeople are awakening to practical sense Of their
own interests, Let our friends in Mansfield put in
successful operation and keep in successful operation
one extensive cotton factory, and they will have ac
complished more actual good than any dozen South
ern Rights State Conventions that ever have been
held, with their reams of resolutions, full of sound
and fury signifyng nothing" and their hundreds Of
speeches signifyng less, if such an expression be
deemed allowable.
We must bring the cotton mills to the cotton fields
not send the products of the cotton fields to cotton
mills situated three and six thousand miles Distant as
we now do--if we would prosper, grow wealthy and
powerful and come up to the measure Of afflpence
and splendor the God of nature manifestly designed
this section of the United States to enjoy. Massa
ehusetts aasses her annual millions Of dollars ofpro
fits from the manufacture Of cotton and its incidents
4 Great Britain amasses her annual millions of pounds
sterling of profits from precisely the same sources
Both the countries named make money from the
manufacture of slave grown cotton than do the slave
i holders themselves! This proposition, we take it
will not be controversial by any intelligent man. Ii
it not about time we should endearor to portion
Of these profits among ourselves? We think SO ant
we are glad our De Soto friends are OF the same
4 opinion.
Here we will take the liberty of giving our friends
in Mansfield little bit Of useful advice. It is this
Wherever cotton factories have failed in the South
the cause has been distinctly traceable First, the
requisite skill has not been employed Second, the
indispensable virtue of perseverance has been lacking
Third, because profits did not Immediately flow in
the projectors Of new and untried business became
disposed to throw it up in disgust And lastly, suf
fcient amount Of stock has not been subscribed tc
and paid in promptly, to place the enterprise upon
such an extended footing would enable it to com
mand success. The projectors of the Mansfield factory
must bear these facts in mind if they would sue
coed. They must employ skill, practice persever.
ance, not be in hurry about the profits, and sup
ply adequate capital to put the project fairly under
way If they do all this there can be no doubt as to
the ultimate triumph of their undertaking.
Railroads and manufactures are what the South
most wants to enable her to complete her higl,
destiny Weare rejoiced that one portion Of our owl
State is aroused to the importance Of these two neces
sites In the Columbian of the same date, from
which the foregoing extract is taken, a railroad ar
tice appears, the reproduction of which affords us
much qualification:
The RAILROAD SPIRIT ARousED.-The repeated failures Of
Red River supply the wants of the people of North Louisiana
in their operations of trade have length had The effect
the dormant energies Of planters capitalists and
spur them something like action in the railroad
enterprise and their thoughts have nnly assumed pulpnle
shape the form of call for Railroad Convention will
by reference to another column OF All begin
to the necessity Of combined action in order the
the closing of nt only and douby doubtful
Red River will but have the effect fully peopt
from the old fogy notions that their fathers did they
do then let 1t BECOME bed Of sand possible
put their shoulders to the wheel their hopes heaven will al
/ end in nothing. @ =sgE "g
i The call contenpaes the holding convention Nac
toces of delegates from all
TO adopt measures to continue the 0peousa road from Wash
inston via Nactochcs and Mansfield Shreveport With
guises people, the object be easily accomplished Tho
lands granted by Congress along the WILL Of themselves
he almost sufficient pay the construction
they can be brought into market and the immense appreciation
property along the rond will than compensate planters
and properly holders for all Investments they make
mention the saving III the matter Of freight the great
j venence Of such public work.
We wish all success this important enterprise and shall di
humble efforts toward completion Fonly
ing tile hope that obstacles will thtowl III
distant when the snort of the iron horse shall
through fertile fields, gather in the teemin
of the husbandman and hear his wings
the wind the great Mansfield Shall
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