New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-10
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.

FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
Manufact ures in the Souih-Thefr ha''fory
| -CbstncIes 10 Their Estabiishment-
Pre- Trade Eninous to the Sonih-He".
edcial Effects OF Manufactures When
E.,nbiished -Pre.ens Condition mud
Future PrOsprcis-The Negro rs Nc.
ebaoic aud Factory IIand-A Protee.
tive Tariff Needed.
From Our Special Correspondent
NEwBERS. Feb 20. 1866.
When wrote from this place several weeks
ago promised ms letter to speak OF the manu-
factares Of the South gladly avail myself Of the first
oppo rtuny presented to discuss question Of such vital
import the future wclbeing Of our country. To
stranger travelling through these States one OF the
chief objects Of attention and thought Is the almost
total absence OF the manufactures so abundant IN the
North. He passes through Virginia with her iron and
coa with water.power en- uah to drive the machinery
of the world and finds people mourning over the loss
If human slaves but unmlndful OF that bondsman Of
science which doos the work Of millions OF human cha.
tels without the Lash, and without q groan.
| He comes to North Carolina and finds her
with a water.power almost as ine1hsustibe.
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buylng back the manufactured articles at enormous
advances. All through the South hc finds the same
political exravagaDce-the separation of the producers
Of raw materials from the manufacturer. Together
with this he notices the poverty and ignorance Of the
population the WORKOUT. wretched condition OF the
land. aud general hopeless desoa'ion Of the country
Ii thougltess enii.Slavery man, he ascrbes all this
poverty to the direct influence Of Slavery while the
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nuuberless negroes and unbounded acres, claiming
those wealth corresponding to the capital at the
North An observer looking little closer and seeing
how Duch of this poverty and ignorance Is due to
the absence of manufacturers might say that this too
was due Slavery that manufactures and Slavery are
p,tble and such has been the reasoning OF
of tho most celebrated writers upon this subject OF
course If this view is correct obstacle exists
10 tie general establishment Of this branch Of industry
as remedy foi these evils a, the South. But II this
Should happen be unsound think 1t IS II the alb
sence Of manufactures the South is not caused by
Slavery. then Its removal will not exert the effect de
sired The opposition to manufactures become Of their
democratic tendencies hostile to the institution. un
doubtedy possessed some power. but it was confined
to limited localities and rapidly weakened By the
sad experience Of their necessity. SO much this
{ @ case, that We find a Governor OF Virginia re-
recommending the Establishment OF manufactures In bis
annual message Just before the A few factories.
built by Northern capital destroyed at the South
but these rare, exceptional cases. such happen
in every country where machinery is first introduced.
Another very different power ives at work, and one
which we at the North well appreciate. the power Of
competition To understand the peculiar force Of this
at the South must look back 900 years. toths
first establishment OF manufactures Mt the North. The
attempt during the seventeenth century to do
mesiicate manufactures In Virginia and Massachusetts;
they failed In the Old Dominion. while succeeding In
Massachusetts. The cause was. the superior fertility
Of the Southern soil and the peculiar products which,
exported purchased from Europe the articles which
the New. CHAMBERS xefe obliged to produce or 60
without.
This same cause continued TO operate for nearly two
centuries prohibiting manufactures from the States
where they we're unnecessary They grew slowly In
New England. until the embargo and war Of 1912 has
tened them with gigantic strides. and tho subsequent
tariff preserved the advantage thus gained Still the
South did feel their necessity though many Of her
ablest statesmen supported tariff ON theoretical
grounds But then came the change In Calhouns mind
upon the tariff Calhoun. the evil genius Of the South.
exerting his evil influence dsastrously upon the
material interests upon the politics Of his native
ton country entered upon its free-trade about
the time that the Southern States beginning to suffer
exhaustion from cotton growing and negro labor. began
also to feel the necessity for manufactures When the
tariff OF 1912 went into operation. and began TO
be- felt Southern manufactures took Q sudden
start the cotton factories using 100 900 bales per annum
more than before Into this state $40 600 600 Of North
ern capital was drawn ard invested In manufacturer
mining. and other internal improvements; thousands
Of acres Of swamp land. considered useless we're
claimed. farms were improved by sub-sol blowing and
draining Not only was immigration to the West
checked but emigran returned and repurchased their
O d honesteads .r o..
Had the tariff continued the South might have had
thousands OF factories. employing hundreds OF thous
ands Of operatives But there followed the free
trade edict Of lsG Under Its influence some OF the
best Northern manufacturing stock sold twenty cents
on the dollars the great wster power. dam. &C., of
Hoyoke costing 1900 COO sold for $500 o0O one
tenth OF Its cost
Wbea suoh were the effects upon long established
Northern manufacturer how the infant
OF the South have suffered Millions were lost Most Of
the factories went down; were established.
In the succeeding years some few establishments strug
gied into existence bat tho contest for life was severe
not only had they encounter foreign competition, but
also that Of the North for the congratulated
features Of possess much the same power
over the South AZ was eIerted upon them by hose Of
Eogand, fact not often nohcedby writer's vDon the