New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-07
MArUrACTunIxG IN LOUISIANA.

MANUFACTURING IN LOUISIANA.
| gpirit Of improvement and enterprise is apparen
throughout this State and the South. We see It il
the liberal subscriptions 70 railroads We notice 1t il
the encouragement that is being given everywhere t
home industry. We feel it in the unpoken, yet prac
tical turn, the minds Of our people are taking. w
know it in the sentiments that are enuncated on ever
side that the time has arrived when the Southern
people should avail themselves of the unsurpassed
natural endowments of their section, cease furnishing
to the hands of their enemies weapons for their OWL
destruction and, by becoming selfsstaning people
| prepare themselves for the mighty contingencies
which the reign of abolition fanaticism in the North
will bring upon the country in the course OF few
brief years.
We have noted and spoken of this sentiment and Of
its results immediate, contingent and prospective
from the awning Of its to the present
moment with satisfaction as strong as is our attach
ment to the section Of country in which our lot has
been cast and that satisfaction will become pure and
unalloyed when we the realization of grand sys
tenn Of Southern industrial, manufacturing and com
mercial pursuits, for then the South will be independ
emit in all the practical of the term and more
able to stand unframed the shock of dissolution thar
the Northern portion Of the confederacy.
The last Mansfield Ode Soto parish) lEgis, pub
fishes an act of incorporation of the !" Mansfield Cot
ton and Wool Mandatory" We learn that the sue
cess Of this enterprise is beyond the reach Of perad
venture number of the wealthiest citizens of that
wealthy parish having put their shoulders to the wheel
with determination that !. no such word as fail shall
be found in their vocabulary If this be the CASE and
if the affairs of the concern judiciously and skill
fully managed, its complete triumph is as certain as
that the sun will rise again. as is also another
great truth, that it will yield munifcent returns to
those public spirited gentlemen who have invested a
portion Of their means in the enterprise. ..a
1t has always been marvel to strangers as well as
to u.s. that the people of the cotton planting States
have never discovered hatthey could manufacture a
goodly portion Of their raw material with ease and
profit that by bringing the looms to the cotton they
would possess at the start. fully twenty per cent adj
vantage over those who constrained to carry the
cotton to the LOOMS Massachusetts has grown great
by the manufacture of Southern raw cotton, and vet
Massachusetts, has to transport that raw cotton some
thousands Of miles before reaches her factories The
colossal fabric of Engand's commercial might rests
upon the fabrication of the snowy staple of the South
and yet England has to transport her cotton five or
six thousand miles before it reaches her factories
These significant facts have aroused the attention of
the people at last to such an extent that we shall not
be surprised If the South supplies herself with most
of the fabrics necessary to home CONSUMPTION
in less than half decade. The invention of George
G. Henry, Esq, of Mobile for spinning raw cotton
into yarns on plantations as it comes from the gins.
by the same motive power, is destined to work of
itself stupendous revolution in home industry. which
will bring incalculable benefits upon our section of
the Union.
For these reasons, and many others we could
educe were it necessary, hail the establishment of
q cotton factory with unaffected pleasure. Let one
factory be established and put in profitable operation
and it will be but the precursor of dozen similar
enterprises and so the good example will spread and
widen until it extends throughout the commonwealth
All honor and success, then, to the Mansfield Factory
and its truly Southern originators.
The Shreveport Gazette, speaking of this proiec. in
with that section of the State has some
excellent remarks and statistics, which we append;
We are wholly unable to conceive why our great
staple should not be manufactured successfully into
yarns and CLOTH nearer its regions production than
is now the case We have seen it somewhere stated
facture in England was more than the home cost of
it into courses fabrics. This we believe to
be essentially true but particular facts are more
illustrative and comprehensive than general truths,
we will attempt to present few to fortify the posi-.
ton contained in the assertion quoted and which we
unreservedly endorse.
Let suppose cotton to be ten cents ner mound in