Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-10-26

So long as the Southern States owned and
controlled an immense body of agricultural
laborers, there were many who doubted the
expediency Of directing its capital and labor
to other industrial, especially manufacturing
pursuits. was certain that from her agri.
culture alone she was deriving great wealth
and prosperity, and it was natural to let well
enough alone. But the case is different
now. The normal labor of the country il
no longer reliable for the great productions
of past years, and the South must explore
and open up new avenues to wealth, and
hold out new encouragements to population,
and to the internal prosperity and political
strength which population affords. The mos,
obvious field Of enterprise is in the manufac-
ture Of our own great staple. There can be
no doubt Of the profit of the pursuit. If we
only spin the fibre into yarn we double the
value Of the crop to our own advantage and
all the examinations of men conversant with
the, business have resulted in facts and fg-
ures TO show that we can manufacture with
greater cheapness in the South, and under
sell the mills of the North and under the
high tariff, those Of Europe. II, hereafter,
We produce no more than million of bales,
worth, at 80 cents, $l75 ,000,O00 it would
enormously increase our internal prosperity
to double the productive value, by simply
turning 1t into yarn. That an energy that
should thus work up our own crop and force
the New England mills to look to Europe
for their supplies, would. be diversion of
the course of trade, not at all agreeable to
our Yankee neighbors, and would, besides,
read them practical lesson on their own
Abolition philanthropy, is circumstance
rather 10 recommend the thought to the con.
sideration OF the Southern people. In our
present situation, standing upon the same
platform of industrial advantages with the
North, there is no reason why we should not
start ont upon the same career of develop.
ment that has made that section OF the coun-
try so prosperous and SO mighty in all the
resources Of peace and war. The path is
blazed for US. The problem has been solved,
the deductions of mechanics and science have
been proved by actual and successful expe-
riment, the tools and implements and ma
chine power are all waiting to be used, and
nothing is wanting but the will and energy
to apply the means ready TO our hands. In
deed, we must exercise our own ingenuity
for the supply OF our daily wants. We can
no longer affori to buy with ready money
every lucifer match, nail, axe, shoe-peg, sad
die, wagon, hat and everything else we need
from the North. The late war has given an
emphatic denial to the SANDER that the peo
pie of the South lack either in energy or in
genuity. The develosment of both were
wonderful while the dire necessities of the
struggle and the blockade were u. on u.s.
In guns and gunpowder, and in all the ap
pliances of war, the stimulated enterprise Of
the people wrought prodgies to wlish nothing
like justice has been done. Let us turn the ge-
MUS OF our people now 10 triumphs in the
arts Of peace, and be stalwart competitors of
the hardy men of The North in the race of
Industrial development.-lMobike Adpertiser.