Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-02-20

agriculture, is in plain language, telling her that the
past wrongs the drained and weeping treasures of the
South not to be relieved that the present contest
is not to work out her thorough independence, give
her those domestic and financial advantages of which
she has been long deprived and for which all have
so long hoped and prayed. Let Congress, shortly
to assemble under permanent Constitution fail not to
gravey look our past present and future relations both
domestic and Oregn, sterny in the face to counter
ance and encourage such shall safely guar
antee to US the financial, commercial and agricultural
we'll social and political independence all of which
is much needed and deserved by brave, true and
loyal people.
Let Congress remember that while We must and will,
from necessity and conUenaence be agricultural peo-
pe a1so must and WILL from necessity and true poi
cy be manufacturing people, To follow agricultural
pursuits s simply to be respectable and halt lndepen-
dent have always been. But to follow pursuits
Of agriculture have done, and will continue
to dO and n addition manufacture, at least the Deces
sary and principal w Wood Iron and Tin Wares, Cotton
and Yarn Fabrics of all description purchasing from
bome only the luXuries-whch We have not done but
and must do, is to be nation truly great self rel
ant and thoroughly independents desideratim so pal
pabe to forciby strike every one with an argument
and policy, for u.s. embracing either national strength
or weakness, may now choose. The South has
never before had such opportunity to choose Tor her.
SELF and if she fails to choose wisely then the result
and censure must necessarily follow upon her own head
1t easily be seen, that for all these pursuits and in
eTeSlS, We are over all OOnieu-
eracy, people and country having natural advantages
possessed by no other people or country. We ask
for a pa tia high and exclusively protective tariff
against the commerce of people, except the North ;
but 1ce must encourage home industry Of oil knds-
manufacturing as well as aQricutural-and therefore our
Congressmen must, with wisdom devote the attention
OF true patriots and give eye of friendship to this
very important and vital question, also, other impOr
tant subjects awaiting their impartial deliberations 1t
may not be amiss to notice few facts relative to
the financial intercourse, was between the North and
South. From reliable sources it is estimated that the
annual profit derived from the Southern by the North
S ates, was So 100000. What prodgiOus annual
profit and draining from the South But when we
member that $75O0OOO0 of HlS IS derived etcLuSlUety
from Northern mInufuctures sent South 1925 900 900
from toeagn manufactured goods coming to usthrough
the NOrh making in the aggregate annual net pro-
tit OF $lOO00OO00 from this one branch OF Industry
aone then the manufacturing interest OF the South is
no longer matter of little consequence to sink or swim
the current of affairs may perchance go. In est-
mating the $4,000 900 profit which the North
nualIy making from foreign manufactures IN addition
to the 100000 derived from their say moth
ing of the profit which is made from these foreign goods
before they reach the NOrth, which at fair eStl
mate of ten per cent would amount to 81 900 900,
thus increasing the annual profit derived from S one
branch Of induSryto the grand total of $fli 100000
Behold ye people OF the South this dangerous vampire,
annually increasing, prom ssing to manufacture your
surplus products at the expense of your financial death!
Southern men, from your past apaby, and, with
the strength OF Hercuas destroy this glutted and yet
hungry vampire by erecting and establishing Southern
Manufactures. No longer allow your cunning and in-
duotrOus enemies be thus burdened with the annually
increasing millions which they have so long been reap
ing from this neglected branch OF industry
In order to see the great wealth and power lying IN
this manufacturing interest it is only necessary to look
at it, it exists among our enemies of the North; and
it this interest in the North had only the producing
country OF the South, then, indeed the North would be
not only wealthy, but a powerful and independent
people-havlng the same natural advantages which the
South has, and hch she must longer tail to i'm
prove. The of 1850 shows that the value of all
manufactures of the State of New York in that year.
amounted to 500 904 4O3, and in 1855 it had increased
to $3l7428, ,33l-showing a grand increase of three
hundred per cent. 900 per cent? III five years. Now
compare the cotton manufacture of all kinds of the
North which in 1920 amounted to about $4000000
with the estimated manufacture of all kinds iu the
North at the present, which is the wonderful sum OF
ST ,230 600 900. Behold what an increase of wealth
and therefore poWer-trOm one branch of industry
within forty years! The precise manufactures OF all
kinds ID 1920, we cannot show, but 1t must have been
very small from the cotton interest in that year
which was only $4,000,000. Now the natural advan-
iages Of the Southern States such to admit O
each State bel agricultural one, and at the same
time to manufacture either greater more limited
eXten-thereby excluding the grounds which the eter
nal wrangings made and existed, between the
North aud South, in the Federal government. And
the natural advantages throughout the Southern
States either in branch of agriculture the other
is such that of the states need be forced from
policy to adopt almost exclusive manufacturing n
terest in order to support and give employmentto bel
population, as was the case with the New England
States of the North which not produce the necess
ties of life.
From what is just stated it is evident that no part
the C0ntederacy will have to adopt from necessity eth
er Of the extremes which, from the beginning, was The
cause and final rupture of the old Federal government
The difference between the old high protective tariff
the U. s.. and tariff for the Conederacy, sufficient tC
c0untenance and gradually FOSTER not particular
but all classes of home industry is that the former
eTpte exclusively to the interests of the North
ano directly against that of the South while the latter
will be equal and just to the protection Of home indus
try in all the States each of which. unlike The majority
of those composing the Federal government is suited tC
both branches of industry. It will do for the
complete and thorough independence of the South to
adopt trade and open ports leaving her home indus
try protection 1t will keep the South just where
she has been for the last 30 thirty years-sinkng intG
financial ruin, national weakness and dependency, to
the emoument and glory of others. What mol
right and just for 1927 thitywo States having conf
ing interests, may be equal and just for Q5) States
having somewhat varied yet homogeneous interests
IT the Confederate government shall establish free trade
then it must fail not to adopt some just system e
protection which be done-for home or domestic
industry, which cannot live with licensed burden OF
foreign goods flooding the whole country and pressing
to death home manufactures already started and vrtu
ally orbiddng any further introduction We have more
confidence in our government than to believe it will
counenance single principle which must speedily as
sail and forever destroy the manufacturing interest
the C6nfederacy. The blessed blockade" is not tc
last much longer end then, what is to become of the
few manufactures already, and the many expected to
be established? Let government-and We believe
it i-adopt just tariff, or other suitable pro
tecion, sufficient to allow ats domestic interest
chance to breathe Though the opposition of foreign pres
sure and then, independent nation, cannot fa