The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-05
sutheru Enterprise.

The Northern ideas OF southern eutcr
prise have never been very elevated.
The capacity of the SOutherner, accord
ing to his Yankee brother, had relation
entirely to political heresies, dnellinS
pistols, Quixotic notions of chivalry, and
the coercive development of negro mus
Gle in the cotton or rice field. He was
what political economists call" "a useless
consumer" .frlVss consamsre matt was.the
nntlattering description of class of
men whom Northern opinion never
deemed capable of personal exertion in
any industrial department, or even OF
existence independent of negro labor.
The circumstances of their present re-
duccd condition are showing that the
Southern people can not only sustain
themselves without the assistance OF
negroes, but what is more remarkable,
without the aid of Northern industry
and brains. in matters concerning which
the latter have hitherto enjoyed mo-
uopoly, Ii is true, that under the Old
system. of which "the institution was
So important part, the actual manual
labor throughout the South was not
performed by the whites, and that IN
none of the mechanic arts were the
Southern people accomplished, but the
supposition that because they did not,
therefore they could not, WELD tiIe I'M
plements of labor, or plan, invent and
use the thousand appliances of progress
in the development of their resources, is
an error which the facts are fast
refutinr. Not only is the Southerner
demonstrating his ability to succeed In
q spherc over which his Northern brother
has heretofore reigned supreme, but III
spite of the desolation which ove
surrads his land, he is becoming nobly
INDEPENDENT of Northern brains and
enterprise. The following somewhat
Grabbed statement from the Sandersrille
Georqian exhibits the progress OF the
South in that development of her own
wealth and resources which is essential
TO her present welfare and future prog
rcss:
Virginia is setting an example to her
sister Southern States. Her magnlfi-
cent water power is being laid under
contribution by the hands of genius
and industry. The hum of the spindle
and the loom. the noise of busy machi-
nrry in every department. OF the me.
chanic arts, is waking the echoes OF
those lovely valleys, where, but few
months ago. "a crow in lying over
them. would have had to carry along
its ratiOns.'
Tennessee. with the incubus of Brown
low and his hungry pack OF Loyal
ISIS" is reported to have twelve mlilS
in snccessful operation, with an invest
ed capital of 800, 900, and producing an
ANIMAL aggregate of manufactured
goods to the amount of 81 100000.
South Carolina, ,iupon whose devoted
head Sherman poured out his walls OF
wrath, brings into play, from her ashes,
eleven cotton factories, running - ,oVo
spindles and 996 looms. In the vicinity
of Fayetteville, in North Carolina, there
are one dozen factories. AT Raleigh, IN
the s3mG State, mammoth building IL
to be erected for the manufacturing OF
cotton and woolen goOds-while Char
lotte is now producing cloths and cassi'
mercs of superior quality. This latter
mill alone runs $1,000 spindles, and
consumes about 5000 pounds of wool
weekly. Mississippi and Alabama are
working out the problem of their lnde-
pendence: while Georgia, our own
scourCed State, sends out loud amen
from ~ mills in operation and II in pro-
cess ofexeeution. OF these latter some
are projected Oh scale to rival the no
torious Lowell, or the pretentious es-
tabishment of the learned Senator
Sprague. Three miles frCm Covington,
and but 30 from this office, has grown
IN since the war the village of Stead
man. Under the magic touch OF Its
founder, Mr.. f.. Steadman, mills for the
fabrication of prints, woolen goods,
homespuns and yards are rapidly rising
and will soon supply demand which
has filled heretofore the pockets OF our
New England tax assessors.
Only keep your hands Oft, ye self
righteous Pharasees, and we will soon
demonstrate our equality, if not oul
superiority, in your own boastsd art OF
manufacturing.