Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-07-18
Manufacturing In The South.


subject Of manufacturing at their own doors
the raw material so abundantly produced by
her prolific soil, teeming with agricultural
wealth and covering e1haustloss mines Of
mineral ores.
The advantages which will accrue from
The establishment Of sum Factories, are 50
obvious to the most casual observer, as
scarcely to justify being mentioned. We
will venture to enumerate some Of the most
important, satisfied that no subject deserves
more attention or is likely to be more favor
ably received at this juncturo by the lusi=
ness public.
The division of labor when arises from
these establishments, is one Of the iuoat i'm
portant features connected with them. esne-
cially to an agricultural community like
ours, where there is 50 little demand for the
labor Of women, boys AID suls, who would
find constant employment in them, aui be
paid remuneratiyc wages Another IS tie
market they create at home ior otr Tread
stuhs, now without any reliable dcaaHi ~
which tic farmer can dereud. All ti4ai5
tendency and result is to keep amols u
millions of dollars which would, in their
absence, be sent abroad to keep alive atoIi-
ton madness and fanaticism among those
miserable and degraded Black Republican
Yankees of New England, who worship no
God but Mammon, and cherish no dtaref
object than the destruction Of the institutions
Of the South. An excess Of manufactures
beyond the demand at home, would inaugu-
rate new era in the commercial history of
the State-and no State, In modern times.
can aspire TO any great Or permanent pros
perity without possessing i aeariShjng com
merce The character of our natural pre-
auctions is emincntly calculated to foster
and encourage foreign trade, and when
we become a manufacturing community ii
will be found unnecessary to subsidiae for
eign lines Of steamers to keep up SICILY
show Of business The vessels q eynry corr
mercial nation viii hover upon our coast
penetrate on7 rivers, and crowd our dasks.
anxious to become our carriers and in re
turn, will bring US the fruits OF civilization
aud refinement from every enlightened aa
ton upon the globe.
We have recently been much eraiiod 10
soc that Lauderdale county, Alabama, is the
ssat Of many great and prosperous manufae-
tories. consuming, annually, from three and
a half to four millions Of pounds Of Cotton,
a consumption which viii be largely iucreas-
ed from year to year, as Macy new es;ab-
lishments are projected. Thriving yillages,
ornamented With churches, libraries, schools
and public Halls, for the accommodation Of
Lecturers, are rapidly rising up around
these seats Of industry, which have given
employment to thousands Of worthy and re-
spectacle persons, who we're, u few years
ago, without any certain means of support,
very preearious and uncertain demand ex-
sting for their labor. This is highly en-
couraglng intelligence from our sister of the
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