The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-08
Encourage your Own.

II recent events, and the lowering signs OF
,be times do not impress upon the South the
xita, importance of encouraging Its own |
industry In every department OF enter |
prise we may as we'll give mp all hope OF its |
and even security. 1t Is now
untteniap.e tina, the South must hereafter look |
alone to itself for said and comfort" In the
conflict which looms up in the future. IL must
depend upon the development OF its own re-
sources, and build up within itself those
elements of strength which have given the
non slayeholding communities their capacity
for mischief but which we only desire as
means of protection and defence.
We should have no doubtof the future II we
could see some evidence of universal ana
deep-rooted determination hereafter to With
hold the supplies from the eXchequer OF tue
enemy no matter TO what Inconvenience 1t
NAV mt ourselves. When we see such spir-
IL as that which was witnessed in the South IN
the early period of the troubles with Great
Britain. a resolution TO encourage only aru-
cies of home production, even to the article OF
clothing. and which induced the people OF
Boston and other places, to forego the luxury
of tea it will then be evident that the South
is in earnest and has both the self denial and
the sagacty to work out her own salvaton.-
But as long as we continue to purchase from
the North every article CT furniture, OF cloth
ing. of shoes for servants, household and agri-
cultural implements so long, in short, as
our manu- features and commerce are in their
hands our children sent 10 Northern schools,
our school books and other books manufac-
tured by Northern authors, and our pleasure
seekers travelling in armies every summer 10
the North, and spending millions among those
who are secretly sneering at the prodigahty
nv which they profit; so long the South may
expect to DE a province, made such by her own
self-indulgence, and treated as such by those
who do not believe that she has the self-denial
ever TO break her bonds.
We should rejoice TO see some general move
ment inaugurated, by which a series OF prac-
teal measures would be digested and adopted,
having in view the entire exclusion from use
of any article of Northern manufacture, cloth
ing. furniture, &C., which can be made within
our own limits even though il should compel
our people to be rs simple in their wardrobes
and in their houses as were the founders OF
the Republic. II is only by such course that
we can build up our own strength, and quicken
the passive conservatism of the Free States
into active measures for the general good
lnconvenient and onerous as such a course
own mechanical skill developed and
strengthened, that ere long we should be able
to produce within our own borders any work
of mechanical skill in great perfection as it
can be found elsewhere in the country.
Even if we are unable to accomplish DIRECT
TRADE with Europe. We can at least resolve to
establish our own man ufacturing industry, and
no longer TO pay tribute to the North for any
,.-l;e b 5uc pn;1rS al tyut
direct trade an impossibility The time was
when Virginia had large and llourishing
commerce. In her central geographical posi-
ton and the railroad connections completed
and in progress with the valleys of the Mis-
.issippi and Ohio, she has great advantages Tor
commercial importance. Look at her magnif-
cent haabors and rivers! Were they designed
by the Creator only for the accommodation Of
river-steamers and oyster boats! May not the
LEGISLATURE OF Virginia avail itself of these
vast natural advantages, these wide and deep
arms of The sea that run up into the heart of a
territory chock- full of mineral and agricultu-
raj wealth, and blessed with genial and gio-
rious climate, and devise some means by which
we can break away from our commercial vas |
saage to the North, and trade directly with
the nations which consume our products p
The Enquirer suggests that the Legislature
pass an act 10 encourage direct importation. |
LET the Legislature lay hold of the domestic |
trade, and by substituting a discriminating
tax and license law upon merchants, discrimi. |
nate between merchandise imported into yir.
gina through the Northern cities. as well as |
that produced at the North and such a. is i'm !
ported from foreign nations into Virginia
The rate OF discrimination is subject of lppis |
iative discretion; il ought to be high enough |
gradually to change the course OF trade. Upon
Changing the plan of the import trade every |
Thing depends. There cannot be an indepeu,
dent expect trade without the import trade is
sab)ecie he same conditions It costs
Twice unt Of freight from Virginia to
Europe thaf 1t costs from New York to Eu-
rope because the former brings back no return
cargo the latter is sure of one, of great value
"nu h''ie o"i- upon which the whole profits
OF the royS ge are made.