Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-20
southern rranufacture..

The South il making steady advance in
manufacturing enterprises. No sudden rush
is witnessed into new business engagements,
bnt quietly in city after city. over the extent
of the SoutbeFz States, movement is made
to set the spindle and the loom in motion
thus varying our employments and adding 10
the sources of our prosperity.
In the present condition of the country any
advance in demonstrating manufactures in the
slave States is a favorable indication. 1t
shows disposition to acquire industrial indie
pendence, and brings new agencies for har-
monizing conflicting interests into action.
Mississippi has made several successful
efforts to establish manufactures. The most
profitable factory in the Union is in one Of
the eastern counties Of that State. 1t may be
due to this fact that disposition is gaining
strength in that State to embark TO greater
extent in this species of industry.
Many of the cotton planters have intro
duced upon their plantations the new machine
for spinning the raw staple at the gin. This
perhaps adds to the favor with which invest
ment in factories begins to I've viewed.
At a meeting of the Warren Agricultural
Society held in Vicksburg on the Sd inst. il
was resolved to establish a cotton factory in
that county, under the protection of the. as
ISOLATION. The design is TO manufacture
coarse cotton fabrics, and the members of
the association pledge themselves to each
oth"r to give the enterprise their undivided
support.
The enterprise is to be commenced on
scale and under a management which VIII
securr success. Negroes are to he turned TO
service in the various departments of the fac
tory. and the whole enterprise is to depend,
al til commencement. upon home market.
This project, now on the eve of consumma-
ton. is worthy of remark as an illustration OF
the advantage Of agricultural associations.
The organization of the planters of Warren,
though Of late origin. has produced, as one
Ofits first fruits, the establishment of a factory
and determination to manufacture at home
all the cotton fabrics of necessary consump-
ton on their own plantations. The inter-
course between the gentlemen of the country
in agricultural meetings has secured what
such opportunity for an Interchange OF sentl-
ment must always effect. practical move
ment to render themselves Independent OF
foreign factors and manufacturers. Such IL
the natural consequence of such organizations
wherever they are effected. Divested Of all
political influence, they direct the attention
of our fourishiug agricuturists to the adop-
tion of the means of home reliance, which
commercial conventions utterly fail III effect
ing.
This is a movement in the right direction.
The South can manufacture cheaper than any
other part Of the world. With the raw mate
rial growing in sight of the factory; with
slave labor that under all circumstances and
at all times. is absolutely reliable; with pro-
visions OF every description and of the best
quality. and cheaper than in any other quar-
ter. furnished without cost of transportation,
the manufactured fabrics can be produced so
as to compete successfully with the world. The
North, and Europ. herself, will ultimately
find that the South has advantage for manu-
featuring purposes that even pIuper white
Ill n
the movement to manufacture in the South
1t is destined to form one OF the most power
full elements in Onr advancement in wealth
and power-N o. Picayllne.