Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-01-20
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stay- Road the second communication from our
northumberland Mechanic The truths
he snnnc.aes are too self-evident TO need the aid
Of argument and too important to fail to impress
every intelligent reader. The mechanics of the
sosss hardly dealt with, and no class Of people
Is ready to disregard their interests as that which
declaims loudest against aboonism, while sending
iis orders North, for almost every article needed
Years ago, we repeatedly urged upon orr resders
the views advanced by our correspondent, and
argued that the only true antidote to anti-slavery
fantclsm, was general and persistent encourage
ment Of Southern mechanics with view to the
production at home Of those articles for which we
have made ourselves dependent upon the enemies
Of the South. And nowhere, more than in Clarks-
vile, has the opposite policy been pursued to the
detrimnent Of its intesests, and the injury of
tho most useful and worthy portion of our citizens.
At this day, Cincinnati mechanics supply our agr-
cultural implements, most of the furniture in our
houses, and almost every building erected exhibits
the workmanship Of its mechanics. The carriages
we ride in, the clothes We wear, the blankets that
cover us, the plates from which we eat, almost
everything we consume, except meat and bread,
comes from the NORTH and the money paid for them
never comes back. No people cen ever prosper as
they should do, who pursue this suicidal policy
and when It is remembered that the patronage with
held from industry is freely given to enrich
enemies, who laugh at, as well as wrong us, who
can be surprised that the North grows richer every
day, and the South becomes more and more
colonial dependent of the arrogant purseproud end
over righteous hypocrites who hoard our money and
repay us with insult and injury?
Yet In tho face of these facts there Is continu-
Gus cry of hard times, and those who utter IT. from
day to day seem never to enquire why money is
snarce. What is there to kcepmoncy in our midst?
Tie agricultural products of the country are sold
for money; but as everything, almost, that the
farmer consumes is of northern manufacture the
money is paid to the merchant who retails the
goods and who, in turn pays tover to the northern
merchant, and all that remains to us is the profits
of the former, vested in land and negroes and
the profits of the merchant which go to swell his
stock of northern merchandise neither investment
tending to increase the circulating medium. IT.
however, carriages, implements of husbandy, furn-
tire aud coarse cotton a, woileR fabrics and other
articles of prime NECESSITY were made and sold here
the money paid to the mechanic By the farmer,
would bepmd back to the latter for breadstuffs, the
manufacturer would keep at home large amount of
the circulating medium now sent North by the
merchants aud systhemof home traffic would thus
be established beneficial to all classes and produc-
tive OF an amount Of wealth. and sectional indie
pendence 10 which this section is now a stranger
Labor is the basis of all wealth, and without it
there can be permanent prosperity. The state of
the produce market under the hct~bcd system Of
wild speculation may give to Carksville the semb-
nee Of prosperity but the bubble win burst sooner
or later unless labor in all its useful departments
isspeedily substituted as the true, for the false
basis Of prosperity. Towns wese once built up by
commercial facilities; but railroads have so ;ualiz
ed all localities that the only element of extra
growth is mechanical labor and without this Gle.
ment railroads. instead of building up towns, teal
them down and remove them to the nearest poin
where this element exists in greatest abundance
and variety. Then all who wish to see Clarksvill,
grow up on permanent basis must quit patroniz
ing aboltionists, and encourage home industry
Nothing elso make II grow and il Is foolish t
indulge any other expectations