The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-22

1 and Domestic Industry
l IRON the Charleston Is. c. Mercury, Feb. 49,
me iabore OF The Augusta cotton mills has done moro
pct back the progress Of manufacturing The South,
nAn any isure that has taken place, and the SUCCESS
Granievie has been beacon light which has kept
ncesce alive in that most needed and simplest
| Of all branches OF manufacturing With the Augusta
Company some twenty I've thirty cotton
establishments In the South down and others have
dragged out sickiy existence from ,he
From the same cause the various attempts 10 make
buckets and tubs, 10 different parts Of the South failed
They far betler buckets than those II tina
North, but our merchants would not purchase them
Twenty i've cents the price Of dozen buckets would
tempt country reliant 70 buy Yankee article in
stead Of the home made whchwould give twice the
faction 70 the consumer, but would not pay 30 good
~ s
mt and protection Of Southern enterprise and home
dusiry, Of which will treat fully progr
with the subject There was quite asprit abroad some
years ago for raising broom and manufacturing
brocms that business has failed and been abandoned
from the cause Chair making another branch OF
that ought have succeeded at the South
but that sbaed the fate Of other enterprises from the
causes
Paper making another and very important branch OF
business the South and that has suffered seriously
from the want Of Southern patronage Even our news
and some stu usipg Yankee article One or two
teDsive establishments in New Orleans, great advocates
lated Journals Northern paper-no for the reason
they cannot procure Southern and better article We
Will however, deal lightly with the editors, for we must
confess that We have never known who not
friendly 70 home enterprises
(For the SUM-
THE PICAYUNE-PRACTICE VS.. PRECEPT.
The New Orleans Picayune quite rampant upon the
subject OF encouraging Southern Industrial enterprise
yet the type the NIX the paper press which she
uses to illuminate her patriotic Southern sentiments are
all manufactured al the North Southern paper manu-.
actureIs have tried in vain 10 furnish her with paper
some have gone 20 FAR to consgn paper Of best
quality ar superior 70 what she uses) her address,
guessing the proprietors 70 aix the prce-but
must have her paper from old Boston, the Of abo
Almost every sheet Of Newspaper used by the press
of Southern manufacture. Three fourths of all Is
used In New Orleans made at the North In Tennessee
s divided between North and South. The Southern
Methodist Book Concern gets most Of theirs from North OF
Mason and Dxons Line Most OF the newspapers Of that
State are manufactured South The Pioasune is sound
the Southern question: except when her feelings
her early preudces or her interests draw her Norhwad
Consistency, thou art jewel
tai mainly for the wantof steady home demand its
products That company labored long and hard TO intro
how doing web and making money for It's proprieors
rs now becoming generally known TO publishers that
St that IF ~ vii Inc be sSa t
OF itself, particularly the purchases di
recty from the manufacturer which not the with
manufacturers in other branches, who the
sumner only through the merchant who, II he be like
other men, will have his attention directed 70 making
money and they all succeed best carrying that
object by selling goods that made far away from
home for every BODY knows the worth OF leading article
home manufactured doescs therefore the trader
may not be able 10 realize large profit may satisfy
| his thirst for gain.
We have mind another branch OF Industry which,
though small enters into the general list Of neglected
Floy ments-th the manufacture OF silver In old
times, when from the scarcity Of money little silver
silversmith TO make spoons, cups &c How stands the
matter powe There is not village In the whole South
whee you may ;hn not hnd o xkee SILVER spoons for
silversmilh at work anywhere In the State out of
Charleston Even that city does not support,
IL ought to do, one siversmth. There is es-
Enlistment in that city which has been struggling for life
for thirty past scarcely able TO live and almost
goes The establishment has been working always against
hot Northern competition besides wind and tide against
in that proverba indifference about Southern patron
age TO home industry Tho proprietor of that one estab
fhment s proverbial for hs honesty and industry and
has struggled through and raised family Of useful
descendants but has not amassed the wealth has
been the better fortune Of those who dealt In Yankee s
We inspected beautiful silver tea set made by the
proprietor Of that establishment, which exhibited
the Institute Fair two years ago. which, 70 the manufAo
MUM Which was awarded 70 articles Of Yankee manu-.
facture We use the word "Yankee' in speaking Of al
pretend TO say that we lack patriotism At the South.
and that there are not Thousands whose breasts
40 warm up 2, the very idea Of domestic en-
scarcely find man who does not rejoice to see
any kind Of manufactory growing up among US, and
particularly at the idea that make articles Of
sumption rs good and cheap they may be made 1t
| the North Everybody Is ready to commend the spirit
that will prompt capitalist invest his money IN any
branch Of manufacturing; but when the goods manuac
tured have find customers, in order 70 sustain the
mandatory there is unacoountable Indifference and
apathy and that gives the merchant power dictate to
the purchaser, and he be governed BY selfish motives
he viii offer the article which he make the most
and viii be likely to put forth article which been
manufactured far away from home. Everybody knows
the price home made goods and not much chance for
In purchasing supplies there unscoountsbIe indf
fer everywhere at the South about patron
Zng home industry That fact IL strongly exemptned In
the almost universal Of Yankee shoes when every
body knows that they will not half as long as
SoSnen maoe article ana ha. they are dearsr IN the
OF carriage and wagon harness. One good set Of
home made Is worth two Of such as you able
to buy ready made, and still we ind people unwilling
pay reasonable advance in price for substantial home
made article. Those who not with such
at the South will confirm what we say about the want Of
Southern patronage 70 enable them 10 dispose of their
manufactured articles.
Politically, the most suspecting, wide awake
people on the face OF the globe-economicay the most
careless and unsurpectng
ern people for thir five years. first account OF the
riff, then negro slavery expansion. At the beginning OF
tha etrfe, when ought 70 have commenced system
Of manufacturing supplies, and furnishing our
selves with everything people ought 70 make at hoe
the three great centres Of American commerce contained
collectively, about four hundred thousand people, II we
had begun then, whore We will have to begin now to
make and import for ourselves, would have built up
BY this time three considerable commercial cities al the
South, with the profitable commerce derived from u.s.
| and the money that we have lavished on them 70
nearly million and half Of people 70 those three
Cities They have amassed millions on millions, until
their private capitalists have been able open In
ter communcations-until that whole country . net
work OF rsilroads-whe VIC, At the South, under
taking to follow their example, by the construction of
railroads TO be built by State governments from
capital they have store but by the issue Of bonds
entailDg on generations 70 come tho payment Of tho
debts.
with our immense exports such not known In any
Of the civilized portion OF the globe, where able
to point signs of accumulation Of wealth? They are not
10 be found exceptn the enhanced value our lands and
negroes Our four millions OF negroes have risen in value
by the depreciation Of money, from thousand 10 four
thousand millions in vase and lands have increased
In value nom the same cause. But any better of
than in 1843 when cotton brought AZ much
as does now? Except from the increase Of our
negro population, have not grown actual wealth.
negro aboreY is not capable Of producing larger
income than he then produced Our soil has not been i'm
proved where let ask 10 be found the signs of
our accumulated wealth