The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-11-06
The Old North state.

The Hon Mr.. Mckay, of North Carolina,
addressed the lnte Macon tolnmercial Con
vention. From his remarks We take he fol
lowing
Well, sir, while l may boast of what nv
State his done, l may boast of what the
southern Con.ederacy is determined 10 do
may be pardoueti II take up few moments
or yonr uGue III showing you what the city
hail from has alreuoy ,.oae and is doing, Tor
the cause of The Southern CoDf,deracy-
While cannot say, tts IS been rem irked by
a gentieln from CnarlesJon, that his c,tI
was first IL this great cause, l may say, Ger
taiBly say, that she is second to no other
Sir, in the eity CT Fayetteville we captured
II, 600 stand of arms thai were used ia almost
ali our battle-fieids, having bevn supplied 10
soldiers from Georgia, floridt, South Caro-
lima, and Virginia, and, I think, Mississippi.
WELL sir, after securing these arms, what els e
hav. we done? My city, on the vote of the
Ordinance OF Sec ssiOn, did not appear TO do
much ste only 20 led between six and seven
hundred votes. She did not 90 her best; hut
when she came to furnish soldiers 10 fight
i'll the cause, she sends ont eight hundred
and sixty, that are now upon the soil OF Fir-
ginia.
Well, sir, there are other things which we
are doing; we are manufacturing things that
the soldiers III our army need, and that are
wanted all over this Coufeaeraey, and stand
here to day tor the purpose of thing you
know what We are doing. In the first place,
then, will show You something that has no
Yankee about it. (Mr. Mckay exhibit ted a
bundle of cocks that appeare! to be very sub
stantial.( These can be afforded at 81 10 per
dozn, cheaper than those we have been in
the ha bit of receiving from those who were
drinking up your lite blood, while they were
taking the money ont of your pockets.
In doing this our ingenuity has not been
exhaus ted. Here Is some sewing thread con-
tanning 6oo yards to the ball. This beats your
Yankee III cad, Wilson, seward Il Co, and is
Afforded ut 81 cents per dozen, as cheap as the
spoois that contained but 200 yards, and as =
friend behind me reminds me, that while
they professed 10 run that amount of yards,
run only 55i They did not run half ;is far as
the Yankees did when the Southerners were
after them.
Mr.. Mckay exhibited some cloth suitable
| for ladies' dresses-the patterns OF which were
so becoming that a gentleman, w hose wifs h lad
clothed herself therefrom last sunday, re-
marked tisat le had never seen her look SC
pretty IN al her life--a.se some iron, called
| the black band iron, which ne showed, from q
passage he read from tha report OF Il geolcgi-
| cal survey in North Caro,ins, by Professor
Emmonds, TO exist III inexhausub,e guam I'll
| ties, ard TO lie on the surtace of the ground
| He also referred 10 the coal mines, which hs
| said were able to supply not only the Who'll,
| southern Contsderacy with tn st indispensa
| BILE article of comfort. but also the whoi,
world. In the city of Fayetteville he sait
| there was seven 60 tt0n factories with an az
gregate capital of S3s4 900, and the carriag,
| factory Of A. a. IeKethau, who did q busi
| ness in 1860 Of $500 He also alluded to tn
| lead mines of North Carolina. He referred
| in conclusion. 10 the immense importanc
| ern Confederacy. Pennsylvania was no
more important to the old Constitutions
Union than North Carolina would be 10 tn
Southern Confed.racy.