Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-12
II Rinfu Time.

If this war and blockade continue, the country
will soon be in want of variety of articles, the
present stocks hand being exhausted and sources
of supply cut off, The stocks of leather, wearing
fabrices, and various other articles Of necessary
use, will soon run cut, and the people viii be
greatly troubled by their lack-mOre seriously and
dssstrously troubled than they have any idea IN
til they experience. But every one of the articles
which may be considered staples of necessity can
be produced IN ample supply IN or oHn Country
and will be, if the var and blockade long continue
and ought properly 10 be 80 produced, whether
the continue or not.
The production of such articles will be com
menced-but when We know well enough when
it " i'll be- It will be when obliged TO do it,
by the most urgent and painful necessities of want
It will be when soldiers are compelled to
march barefOOted with bleeding feet, because Of
lack Of leather IN the country, and Of manUfactr-
ing establishments to work it up into shoes Il will
be when soldiers march in tatrered gsrb which
will not keep the weather out the poorer citizens
are IN rags. and our negroes work naked. When
the present stocks in stores are exhausted where
DO merchants expect TO reple .ish: When the lass
shoes and the last coat are worn ont, where viii
the wearer get more
Soon we shall begin to hear from al parts Of the
country reports that there are no leather shoes,
cloths, or wearing apparel to be had. Soon hun
dPed and fiji Y or two hundred thousand soldiers,
and several millions Of people Will have to be rct>
ed with clothing and shoe leather their Old clothes
and ''Old Shoes, even, having done their very last
service. When will they be supplied The COM
moditles are not in the country, and from what
other country viii they be obtained suppOsipg the
blockade is continued: They could not be obtain
ed and wheE We should commence in hot and nsrv-
Gus haste and with illdigested method, 20 prOdGce
them ourselves from the abundant material
which We have but before we could manufacture
in sufficient quantity, the army and the people
would suffer much, and great extOrtions might De
pPacticed by those controlling the scanty supplies
for which the public would bid
The sooner we 90 TO work the better, and we
should have begun before his Let capitalists who
since the suspension Ct business and affairs became
unsettled have locked up their money loose no time
in putting it into manufacturing enterprise. Let
tanLerIes and shoe making concerns be established.
Let spinning and weaving machinery be set up and
put 10 work on staple fabrices-jeans, lnseys and
cott0rs. jean coat will keep a citizen millionaire
as comfortable as it will patriot soldier. Let the
country people get out their old hand looms, and
trust to them as Of DID, and no longer TO store
Clothes" TIE general necessities of mankind are
food and clothing The people have rallied to their
work in season to insure abundant supply Of the
former and it is quite time look out for the lat
ter. There are various branches of manufacture of
importance which should be taken hold of at once.
Hat factories should be established, mills for ma
king newspaper saddleries, etc, etc. all Of which
would abundantly reward capital. A number of
newspapers in different parts Of interior South
have already suspended because of the scarcity and
high price of paper.
It is not safe to rely that the blockade viii soon
be raised 1t may not be, and we should provide
for that contingency. 1t Us begin IN time and not
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