The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-02-11
COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURE
AT THE SOUTH

the great detriment of the North. This is
one of the last of the irrepressible tunes
piped by the satanic minstrels North, and
ventured upon by few Of the more reck-
less organ-gfhders South. 'Let me make
the songs of nation, and care not who
makes the laws" said an astute writer, and
it may be that the parties in question are
acting upon the suggestion. But, be all
this as it may, we care not who pipes nor
who harps, nor yet who indites these plan
tation songs about Southern manufacture
ing and commerce. We are not among
the number who have any faith in either
the ability or desire of the South for these
undertakings, nor yet in her possession of
the right materials for permanency should
they be begun.
Men who live off of the earnings of 9TH
ers are always reckless of expenditure
They know nothing of that wise economy
necessary to great practical operations
The chivalry of the South, existing by the
toll of others, without the skill even to
keep ends together, are too poor to enter
into competition with the go-ahead bust
ness men Of the world, if no other impedi-
ments were in their way
The South has the raw material, but
that is always engaged in advance to liqui-
date the debts Of her booted, spurred, and
gloved sons, contracted long before the
seeds even were sown. She has slaves in
Vulnerable, but even these are mortgaged
to the same doleful end-the old debt
She cannot and never will be able to get
over this, for when she does she will then
have ceased to be South with master and
slave.
At present she can produce the mere
raw material, but she has not the skill to
change them to the wants of man-not even
to her own rude wants This is her state
today.
But, suppose the South carries out her
chivalrous determination, and sets on her
own hook, who are to be her operators I
Certainly not her own proud chivalry.
Who then-the sons and daughters of
New England? This would be jumping
out of the frying pan into the fire, heated
seven times hotter, since it would be af-
fording the Yankee his needed employ
ment-the same attempted to be denied
him at home-and enabling him in addi-
ton to carry his peculiar principles with
him among the domestic institutions of the
South.
We hear much Of fre-brands now, and
we can scarcely imagine what would follow
such a course then. While it would be
mere transfer of an intelligent branch of
labor, it would carry with it all the force
and strength of the Yankee character,
which is SO antagonistic to the Southern
peculiar institution. No, no; it will nev-
er do to get operatives for these Southern
factories from this quarter. 1t were better
to keep the New Englander genuine
Northern Yankee-at safe distance.
From whence, then, must the operatives
for the Southern factories Gomez From
old England? Even if that were practical
BILE in manufacturing point, it would
prove hundred times more disastrous
than the transfer Of the New Englander
We can see no other alternative, then, than
to take the slave To do this his standard
of intelligence must be raised; he must be
made into different man, such as we doubt
the South is yet prepared for. Elevate
the slave, and he will send the patriarchal
institution to the place where things are
only remembered.
No, no; if the chivalry desire to pre-
serve their much-loved institution, to keep
the irrepressible negro down and foreign
influence out, and foreign encroachments
at safe distance, let them stick to the
plantation, and, as one after another wears
out and blightS beneath the tramp of in
jured and bleeding slaves, let them, (the
propaganda,) like semi-barbarians as they
are fast becoming, wander about from land
to land and from section to section, till
they shall have exhausted, if not their por-
ton of the country, certainly themselves,
together with their peculiar institution and
all its appurtenances.
Let commerce and manufacturing re-
main where it is The North and North
ern hands, where capital and skill are, are
the only safe mediums for this kind of bus
iness. The tools to those who can use
them-this is our advice. Let the South
take heed, and let its Northern paid ad-
visers, who are continually cheating her,
cease longer to be dishonest, and proclaim
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