The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-01-22
Southern Manufactures.

The South is making steady advance il
manufacturing enterprise. No sudden rusl, i,
witnessed into new business engagements. bu1
quietly, ~ city after city, over the extent o
the Southern States, a movement is made &c
set the spindle and the loom in notion-thu,
varying our employments and adding to thu
sources Of our prosperity.
In the present condition Of the country. any
advance in demonstrating manufactures IN The
slave States is a favorable indication. /,
sho rs q disposition to acquire industrial indie.
pendence, and brings new agencies for har.
monizing conflicting interests into action.
Mississippi bus made several successful &c
forts to establish manufactures. The most
profitable factory in the Union is in one of the
eastern counties Of that State. 1t may be due
20 TINS TACT that a disposition is gaiuiDg strength
~ that State To embark to ii greater extent s.
this species Of industry.
Many OF the cotton planters have intro
uuced upon their plantations the new machine
lor spinning the raw staple at the gin. This
perhaps adds to the favor with which invest
tmeit IN factories begins to be viewed.
AZ q meeting of the Warren Agricultural
Society, held IN Vicksburg on the 3D. inst, It
was resolved 10 establish q cotton factory in
stnal county, under the protection of the asso-
.cialon. The design is to manufacture coarse
COTTON iabrics, and the members OF the associa-
lion pledge themselves to each other to give
me enterprise their undivided support.
ne enterprise Is TO be commenced on n
scale and Under a management which will So
cure success. Negroes are to be turned to SER
wee IN the various departments of the factory,
ana the whole enterprise is to depend, at the
commencement, upon a home market.
rms project, 10Y on the eve of cousumma.
tion, Is worthy OF remark as an illustration Of
the advantage Of agricultural associations,
Inc organization Of the planters of Warren.
.houghsof late origin, has prod tcea, as one of
us flrst fruits, the establishment of a factory
and . determination to manufacture at home
oil the cotton fabrics of necessary consumption
their W plantations. The intercourse be-
tween the gentlemen Of the country in nnricul.
inrai meetings has secured, what such oppor.
fnnity for an Interchange of sentiment must
always effect, a practical movement to render
Independent of foreign factors and
manufacturers. Such is the natural canse.
qllence Of such organizations wherever thew
are effected. Dirested of all political influence
they direct the attention Of our iourishiu@
aggricnlturists to the adoption of the means IF
~N'N ''e.4%0 nulll SOHH1HGfCIaI conventional
utterly fail in effecting.
\, ms IS a movement in the right direction.
! ~ oouth can manufacture cheaper than any
part of the world. With the raw mat
rial growing ID sight of The factory with slave
labor that, under oil circumstances and M all
lines. is absolutely reliable; with provisions
Of every description and of the best quality
and CHEAPER than in any other quarter. fur
hlshed without cost of Transportation. the
manufactured fabrics can be produced so rs
% compete successfully with the world. The
and Europe herself, will ultimately find
nat the South has advantages for manufae.
inrins purposes that even panper white labor
viii not counterbatance. Success to the move.
nent 10 manufacture in the South 1t. is
destined TO form one of the most powerful
dement's in our advancement in wealth and
power. IN. o. Pieayune.