Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-03-21
WEDNESDAY,, MARCH 81, 1880.
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facturesu-EUtraOrdiHa Frotttss
We have heretofore endeavored to convince our
readers that one Oft the most fnot the most effective
mode Of convincing aggressive Black Republicans
Of the error Of their ways, politically, is to touch
the pocket nerve Of the negrophilists. The only
sure method Of doing this is by stimulating Southern
enterprise and Southern selfreliaace. We are
too largely dependent on Northern capitalists.
Ii is a matter of great qualification that in
certain portions of the South they are awak-
ing to the Importance Of Southern manufactures.
Are not the people of Tennessee as deeply interest
ed in the promotion Of home industry any Of her
sister States? What more available place thanNash-
vile for manufacturing. Both in political and pc
cuuiary point Of view it would be well for the cit
liens Of our State to manifest more interest South
ern manufactures. When Southern enterprise shall
begin to be felt in the manufacturing towns OF the
North TIE masses Of the free States viii curse the
day in which Black Rppubicanism was born
In future years, saws the States and Unioa' the
whole North VIII denounce WILLIAM II. SEWARD and
those who have excited the existing hOstilties be-
tween the two sections, as the direst enemies OF
Northern prosperity.
The country was il harmony The Southern
States employed their capital and labor in the pro
ducrions Of agricultural staples. Content with their
success they cheerfully left to their less favored
sisters Of the North the pursuits OF commerce and
manufactures
There was in the South even large party-which
has now not a single representadve-that voted for
protective tariff with the knowledge that the bene-
fits of the system could only 10 the manu1ac-
turing interests of the North.
We expressed the opinion, few days since, that
the discomfort which prevails among the mechanics
Of New England arose from the disadvantages under
which mechanical industry labors where al the ex-
peEses living are SO high-where all the materials
which enter into a manufactured fabric must be
imported from abroad, and the article manufactur-
ed must be sent to distant consumer with all the
charges attendant upon this operation.
The practical result Of Black Republican doe
trines as carried out at Harper's Ferry, has ex-
cited the Indignation Of the South. 1t has stimula-
ted Southern men To promote the manufacture Of
articles Of primary necessity at home, or to import
them from foreign countries.
With the combined advantages which the South
possesses in many localities, we may expect the
manufacturing interest viii prosper greatly, and il
cannot be many more years before large proper
ton of the goods consumed in the South viii be
manufactured in she South.
Wedo not douot that this supposition will be rid
iculed by Northern men, just the attempt to plant
the interests referred to upon the soil Of New Eng
land was sneered at by Great Britain; but causes
are at work which viii occasion transfer Of much
mechanical labor from an ungrateful and unpro-
ductive location to the genial climate cheap sup
plies, and cash demand OF the South.
Why should the shoemaker who is starving in
umeguited toll at Lynn hesitate to establish him
selfin Tennessee? Has he not all his life been max
ing shoes for the master and the slave. Would il
be inconsistent for him to place himself nearer his
customer that both might profit by the REMOVAL
It viii be impossible for WILSON and GREELEY tC
conceal this great fact from the operatives much
longer. They cannot be kept in a blind madness
against tie hand that feeds and clothes them. They
VIII take up the little all that oppression and fanati
cism has LETT them and emigrate to a country where
labor is better rewarded. and. in fact, more res
pecteJ.
That our readers may not suppose we are entirely
governed by theory upon this subject we give tht
last annual statement Of the Eagle Cotton Manufac
turing Company at Columbus, Georgia.
It appears from the report that this factory be
gau operations I'm 1852 but fer the disaster &
the dams caused loss of seven months time added
To which the difficulty and delay in procuring anC
teaching operatives. ina community where all haC
20 hetaught might fairly place operations as be
ginning in sj3 NOW : ears) ard witha the draw
backs for first five years. by insufficient water, &c
We have earned and divided in stock. Sl3S50O o.
lave earned and divided in Cash....-.-. 6g,25O o.
And retain undivided profits .......... S6Cl 81