Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-09-07
Extract from an Address OF Gov. Pat.
ton, OF Alabama.

III Alabama, from her agricultural pur-
suits, makes twenty millions of dollars, and
her people deem 1t necessary to extend that
income abroad, it is plain and palpable that
the State would not advance in prosperity.
But if, by the manufacture Of cotton and
by other possible means, she can double and
quadruple the value Of our exports, or spend
less away from home, we may more than re-
gain the power and influence which we have
lost by the deplorable events Of the last FIVE
years. We should think less Of travelling in
the North and elsewhere. We should think
less of sending our children away from home
TO be educated. There should be less South
ern money spent at Cape May and Saratoga.
The millions expended in Northern pleasure
excursions 60 to enrich those from whom we
never receive a shilling except in exchange
for our raw cotton, which is manufactured
and made to increase the monied influence
and power of the New England nabobs,
whose whole object seems to be to tax the
cotton planter and his hired freedmen in
such way as to degrade them to condition
worse and more iDtolerable than that of hew-
ers of wood aud drawers of water. We
have, heretofore, been too much dependent
on the North for manufactured articles
This unwse dependence is mol confined to
cotton goods. 1t extends to everything,
from children's toys and rat-traps to a loco
motive. A thoughtful man will find much
food for reflection by stepping into the stores
of this or any other city. There he will
find well-assorted stock Of axe-hand les,
brooms, tubs baskets, shoes, boots, saddles,
harness, cutlery, &c., all of which are man.
ufactured North, but every article Of which
| -, Ia da To- tba South In
the streets of our beautiful Capital you will
not find single carriage, barouche or buggy
that is not of foreign build.
Wemust turn our attention to manufactu-
ring. The product of the soil Of Alabama
will not now, as formerly, sustain that lib.
eral expenditure, and | may say extrava.
gauce in living, TO which our good people
have been accustomed. 1t is my earnest
desire that Alabama shall be self-sustaining
Let us make all that is needed for home
purposes, and as much as we can to send
abroad. Let us have our own literary in
siitutions for the education of our sous and
daughters, and by such means increase the
excess of our exports over our imports. W.
will yet become prosperous independent ant
rich il we only adhere to the plain and sim
pie rules Of economy which experience hai
established for our guidance.
1t may be stated as a general proposition
l and at the same time simple one, that up
, on an average one yard Of cotton goods i
worth as much as pound Of the raw ma
terial. The number of yards produced from
, single pound depends, of course, upon tn
q quality of the manufactured article. Fo
! instance, from one pound Of cotton you ma!
: make four yards of what is known in mer
camille parance as four-quarter brown mus
lin. These four yards would be worth eight.
. cents; and thus we see that the process O
! manufacturing has added sixty cents to tn
value Of one pound of cotton. Taking thi
, quality OF goods as d basis for calculation
! we can plainly see how the value of glvel
y amount of the raw material may be increases
in value, until, in the finer article, simpl
pound may he made to yield several dollars
But we may find ample inducements 10
u manufacturing enterprises, by referring +
the planest and simplest articles that cal
: be made. We double the value OF cotto
: by converting II into yarns or common osna
0 burg. Hence, we may take our two hun
c dred and ffly thousand bales worth twenty
y five millions of dollars, and if we manufac
:, ture nothing but the most ordinary articles
we may increase its value TO fifty million
that is, as much as was realized from ou
y former crop of one million bales.