New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-12-06
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this Dct0kcnS Il great cnan Te alTCt'lN III SOUTH
ern modes of thinking upon certain Subjects
The rebels have shown an unexpected readi-
mess 70 modify their notions IN the stress of
circumstances, and an amount Of industry
and enterprise in the accomplishment of Sc
we're physical labor. for which we should
have hardly Given them credit at the begin
mig of the contest. We see how much they
might have done heretofore If they had not
cherished 50 absurd ideas about mechanical
Observation-Disclosures, LR. I. Jovrnal
The fore going extract from n journal
hitherto identified heart and soul with
every movement tending to favor class
legislation, is significant. It will be
recollectea by those who have kept an
eye to the progress of public scnti-
ment, with what odium the South has
been treated because it permitted the
more enterprising North to supply It
with nearly all its manufactured arti-
Giles.
1t will also he remembered by those
familiar with the autecedents of Great
Britain, how pcrsistently she prohib
tied the colonies from engaging IN man
.ufactures while subject to the King
and Parliament; and that tie mother
country after becoming rich from the
labor and traffic of the colonies, repell
ed them. 1t will also he recollected that
when the colonists resolved to buy no
more English goods, but to wear ''home-
spun," how they were ridiculed by the
Manchester manufacturers and Liver
pool Ship-owners yet that in twelve
years thereafter the amount of domes-
tic fabrics of the growth and manulac
ture of the despisal and derided colo.
nists amounted to many millions of
dollars annually, with an annual in
crease fully keeping pace with our
growth and prosperity as nation.
The report of the Secretary of the
treasury reports the sale of Northern
manufacturers to Southern consumers
at s $50, 100000 per annum. and from
the West at about S 3O,000,O00 annu
ally, making an Interstate traffic per
annum of s18o,000OOO besides the
imported goods sent South for which
Northern goods had been previously
exchanged. The efforts that are be-
ing made at the South to favor the
production of goods there to the exclu
sion of those of Northern manufacture
are not unlike those Of the colonies to
supplant the English fabric when dis
satisfaction began to run high, and
though the South can never achieve
its independence, it will have system
of manuf: cturers established that must
for all time destroy the monopoly we
of the North have held over them. 81
From statistics of the most reliable
character it is now demonstrated that
the South is using its capital success
fully in prosecuting manufactures, and
that in short time even il peace be
restored, their extent and capacity
will create a ''home market" for it's
raw material heretofore exported North
for the manufactured articles, and
place it foremost in the ranks rs an
exporter; thus it will annually dimin-
ish its purchases from ths North, and
also curtail it's exports.
All, or nearly all the Southern states
are becoming active in this direction and
great results must follow. IF no more
serious consequences result from their
movements, large increase of local
manufactures will furnish tho wants OF
the local trade, and thus struggle
takes place between the Northern and
the local manufacturers in the even,
the latter must triumph.
1t is certainly one of the most extra.
ordinary spectacles Of the world, that a
great, intelligent, and manufacturing
people should have voluntarily permit
ted a few political hacks to attack theil
h1t customer, and destroy his means
of purchase merely for an abstraction.
Every piece of domestic, every pair
of shoes. every yard of broad'cloth
manufactured in the fertile and produc
tive South is so much misapplied labor
..,h;1., thu cturdv /. horer cf Now Fpp