New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-11
mAYUrAoruleE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Next to the faulty that leads Southern mel to
send their raw cotton to places thousands OF niles
distant be manufactured instead Of manufacturing
it at home, is that which induces them to sell their
dry hides to Northern buyers TO be transported to
Massachusetts,, there tanned, wrought into boots
shoes and brogans, which in turn are sold to them
yielding large profits to the manufacturer.
Very few persons are aware of the enormous mag
nitude Of the boot and shoe business OF Massachu
SETS 1t exceeds in value any other business by more
than eleven millions of dollars By consulting the
American Almanac, the reader will discover that IN
1856 the boot and shoe manufactures of that State
reached the immense figure Of 37 500 ,4s3, giving
employment to 74,4s6 operatives while the cotton
manufactures amounted to $26 l60,537 yielding en-
ployn,ent to 81 1857 hands,
A yery important branch, if not the most important
branch of the boot and shoe industry OF Massacnu-
SETS is devoted to the manufacture Of coarse SHOES
| and boots, known under the general name OF bro
/ cans, for Southern negroes common wear. Ihese
brogans should be all made at home, where they can
\ be made cheaper and better than abroad, provided
our people will ever learn practical wisdom sufficiently
to enable them to discover the only true sources Of
i Of Industrial independence. Nothing more is neees-
! sary to accomplish the object in view. d
4 On this subject under the head Of Brogan Manu-
facture the Mobile Tribune of the LIST, has very
sensible observations which take pleasure in sub
Joining and commencing to the attentive considera-
4 tioE of our readers !:
There probably branch of the manufacturing business
which pursued in the son, than The
snow supplied principally by Sor,hsrl
ss Lou o and psy %ssh
under which they labor they grow rich on
which them from the sale their saoes In
One glance at The advantages which sufficient
suceesuIy with anuactureIs in The production q
I ,s hss ass cut e o
bark worth in nsi hy nsr
We state this upon the authority Of merchant now in this Gig,
here last cords At I'VE doa
cord and shipped 10 session. where y soa iof
Southern dry hides quoted cents pound
Negroes whs or n any ~ WAY unit o IT,
manufacture Of shoes such be had at cost
from TWO dollars The interest hi
would probably about twelve dollars month Thi
hundred cent less than paid for the
VIII all these advantages it'll the demand midst
not surprising should import nearly all the shoe
worn by negroes from remote section Of the unons
What is true as to Mobile, is true, larger scale
as to New Orleans and is true in propostonate rat
as to all of the towns and villages in the Southern
J States. sE
I We are stronger now than ever in the belief FIRE
} quently expressed in these columns, that the ind
yidual who establishes tannery, shoe shop on
moderately extensive scale, cotton factory, mil
for spinning cotton into yarns for expectation, or al
oil mandatory, is a better Southern Rights man
and more entitled to the confidence and respect Q
his fellow-ctizens than the whole tribe of mpracca
bles that seek notoriety through the newspapers a
members of Southern conventions, or otherwise.