The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-11-05
rHE OLD NORTH STATE.

W. Mel. Mckay of Fayetteville, n. c., ad-
dressed the late Macon Commercial Convention.
From his remarks, we take the following:
"Well, sir, while may boast of what my State
has done, I may boast Of what the Southern Con-
federacy is determined to do l may be pardoned
if l take up few moments of your time in show
ing you what the city hail from has already
done, and is doing for the Of the Southern
Confederacy While | cannot say as has been
remarked by gentleman from Charleston, that
his city first in this great cause, [ may say,
certainly say, that 81 second to no other Sir,
in the city OF Fayet. evie captured 10000
stand Of arms that used in almost all our
battle fields having been supplied to soldiers from
Georgia, Florida South Carolina and Virginia,
and l think Mississippi Well, sir, after securing
these arms, what else have done? My city on
the vote Of the Ordinance Of Secession did not ap-
pear to do much; she only poed between six and
but when she came to furnish soldiers to fight in
the cause, he sends out eight hundred and sixty
that are now upon the soil Of Virginia.
We'll, Sir, there are other things which We are
doing; We are manufacturing things that the
soldiers in Our army need, and that wanted all
over this Contederacy, and l stand here to-day
for the purpose OF letting you know what we are
doing. In the first place, then [ will show you
something that has no Yankee about it. (Mr
MChaY exhibited bundle OF SOCKS that appeared
to be very substantially These can be afforded at
Sl.75 per dozen, cheaper than those we have been
ia the habit Of receiving from those who
blinking up your life blood while they taking
the money out Of your pockets.
In doing this our ingenuity has not been ex
haused. Here is some sewing thread, contain
ing go yards to the ball This beats your Yam
kee thread, Wilson, Seward & Co., and is afforded
at Sd cents per dozen, cheap the spoos that
contained but 200 yards, and as a friend behind
me reminds me, that while they protested to
that account Of yards, only 70. They did not
run half as far the Yankees did when the
SOuthcrners after them.
MIR Mckay exhibited some cloth suitable for
ladies' dresses-the patterns of which were so
becoming that a gentleman, whose wife had clothed
herself therein last Sunday, remarked that he
had never her 50 pretty in all her Iife--also
some iron called the black band iron, which he
showed, from passage lie read from the report of
geological survey in North Carolina, by Profess
Eumons, to exist i'll inexhaustibIe quantities
and to lie on the surface of the ground. He also
referred to the coal mines, which he said were
able to supply not only the whole Southern Con
tederacy with that indispensable article Of
fort, but also the whole world. In the city of
Fayetteville, he said there were seven cotton
factories with an aggregate capital Of 1854, 900,
and the Carriage factory Of A A. Mcclellan, who
did a business in 1850 Of 500 900 He also al
luded to the lead mines Of North Carolina. He
referred, in conclusion, to the immense Importance
that North Carolina would be to the Southern
Confedsracy Pennsylvania was not more mpor-
tant to the old Constitutional U1ion than North
Carolina would be to the Southern Contederacy"