New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-13
succhssFUL soUTHERs ENTERPIsKIsEs

ISSSSAhssrOA SOUTHERN ENTERPRISES
since the North commenced waging an unhoIy
war OF snbiugation upon the South, the exhibition
Of Southern enterprise, thrift, industry and inven
tive faculty, has been in the highest degree graft
tying, and has demonstrated the absolute verify
4 Rnat We have said on numerous occasions, il
months and years past, that the Southern people
once compelled to rely upon their own resources
would speedily become, within themselves, tn
most independent nation on the surface Of tn
globe. We have never known what we were ac
tualy worth or all that we are really good for or a,
until the Abolition war and blockade compelle
us to. rely upon ourselves. This brought us on
II magnifcently and the lesson we have learned il
the stern school Of necessity will never be forgot
81 ten, and were the war to terminate finally to.mor
row, that lesson would in the future, be worth to u
many scores Of millions more than the expenses Q
the war up to this time. s III
We are now making cannon, aInuskets, bayonets
swords riff es, powder, shot and SHE'LL in quantitie
81 amp to support our immense armies in the field
Had any one asserted that this could be dom
Il twelve months ago, q vast majority of our peepl
Il would have deemed him q ct subject for lunati,
Il asylum Yet weshaye the indisputabie fact starin.
MS in the face. There It stands; let all donbters
! look at it, and be encouraged as to the future
4 Whenever necessity arises resource is always
4 found Ell
1 The article of copper is Indispensable in war
i times. We have heard doubling Thomasses ex.
press apprehensions on that score. Yet all diff
] cnlies have vanished before a pressing need
The mines d the Duektown Glenn. company will
alone furnish an adequate supply to the Govern
Ment, and soon rolling mill will be established,
bat the time not very far hack when people held
to the belief that manufa ctures tof copper must
come fromdhe North or foreign countries. The
war has proved this not to be- the case. p
n was believed at one time that we were all
bound to 60 to ruin on account of the scarcity of
salt. Salt became enormously high; batthatgery
fact developed the capacity Of our saline springs
and the resources of our sea coasts. It s.now alb.
solutely clear that, with the proper ppliances the
Confederate States can produce three times the
amount of salt the people require.
We are row manufac turing sewing silk, eartlfen4
ware, brooms, buckets printing paper, type, ink, :
presses, machinery, cotton and woollen goods,
corn shelters, hand looms, spinning wheels, fur
nitnre, clothing, wheat fans plows, eultiyators,
rope, Irvine, ETC., ETC., in such quantities. and all
improving 50 rapidly, that twelve months cannot
elapse, il the war CONTINUES, b efore home manu-
factufes will fully supply all needful home wants.
We;may be deprived of some foreign luxurIes, hut
We will be all the better off on account of the de-
priyation. For the development of all these
manifold advantages We are indebted to the Abo-
Gtion war.
Thousands supposed that the Cairo embargo,
cutting off the usual supplies of pork, bacon and
lard, ETC., would produce an immensely of distress,
if not downright starvation. What has been the
consequences - High prices, tits true have ruled,
arfsY I l.
considerable Inconvenience. But there has been
no actual distress, mach less starvation and if the
Southern people continue the poreine culture as
they have commenced, in q, very short time they
will become exporters Of hog products, instead Of
IA ,ss 45;s sf 4
And, as with the foregoing, so with innumerable
other things. The Southern people, in the past,
content with growing three or tour chief staples,
seemed resolutely determined to discourage all EFF
lorts Of home enterprise, looking to home indie
pendenee. They wanted to sell abroad and pnr |
chase abroad, and the more they.were cheated the
more they appeared to be delighted. The war has
happily cured this unhappy state Of AFFAIRS and
low Southern enterprises are appreciated and [
anded and our citizens throughout the length and |
breadth of our Confederate land emulate each |
ether IN words and deeds of encouragement. We |
nave notable instance in point, which we shall /
proceed to illustrate by facts, showing how great
source Of wealth and Independence to the South
vas ne elected, discouraged and even frowned upon
oy Southern men, and an inferior Cincinnati arti-
lie preferred and purchased at double or treble /
he price We alludeto the article of oil. Oil is I
~ indispensable article Without it the machinery
# all the earth would come to q stand-still. In
be manufacture Of the hugest anchor and the
NEST cambria needle, its use cannot be dispensed
WITH Heavy machinery and railroad earboxes,
like the consumption Of powder by ponderous
olumbiads and huge mortars), consume the
,reater portion of manufactured oils. For two Or
hree years the Southern Oil Company--made up
u the best citizens of the South-ahas had hard
'truggle to get along. Our railroad men preferred
osbuy from Cincinnati, andpay two prices for lard
III when every fair test demonstrated that the oil
i the Southern Company wasSnot only cheaper,
sut q better article.' Such was the Tremendous
hect Of habit and prejndice-the habit Of pur.
hasng everything from the North creating a pre- T.
udIce against everything produced at the South,
Except the Leading staples. Still the Southern Oil
company fought'its way bravely throughSthe mists1
v Southern prejudice in favor Of Northern oils, II
md would have eventually succeeded if war had
not ensuedits meritsybeing SO solid and so great.
oat, thS War 5preugHt IT, out at onces The supply
# Northern oils being cut off our Southern rail-
oad men and others concluded to turn a listening
'ar to the claims Of the Southern; Oil Company. f
strange asst may appear it is nevertheless true
hat all objections to the oil st onee disappeared
md the experience Of few weeks led to the uni.
'ersal expression that it was the best as well as
be cheapest railroad oil that they had ever used
This dispersion Of an utterly unfounded prejudice
y destined toSbe of immense value to the soath,
The. consumption 1of this kind of oil amounts ia
Millions annually. Hereafter this will be made in
he South and saved to the South, as we cannot
believe that our chief machinists and railroad
men will ever go, to the North hereafter for their
supplies If they can possibly avoid it. a& t.
10 give an idea Of the value Of this Comnanv To-
he sonth--its power Of production being almost se
llimitabla, ii the demand should arise-and ia
great natural resources, we will submit few !
igures from the statement submitted to the stock.
lolders on the lst Of January, which we have !
'een kindly permitted to copy. The effect pro.
luced by the war was almost like magic. An EN-. = =
Company became suddenly relieved of
. embarrassmens, to the universal satisfaction Of