Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-10
How 90 Develop the Wealth of Ten
nessee.
NUMBER II.

NUMBER II.
The wealth Of State or nation
consists in its exports. Whenever the
imports of State exceed the amount
of its exports, it is on the sure
road 10 bankruptcy and final ruin. No
one doubts the varied resources Of Ten
nessee, vet of what avail are they, if they
are sent to foreign States aud manufactured
and the money received for the raw MAJ
terial will not pay for the manufactured
goods. That We can manufacture in Ten
nessee all of the products Of our soil cheaper
than the same material can be transported
to New England and manufactured, after
our manufacturers are on firm basis, does
not require argument What is it that
keeps our railroads leading out of our
State all the time crowded with freights
IL is the transportation OF the products of
Tennessee 10 the manufacturing districts,
and their return 10 us in manufactured
articles. Suppose we could only save to
our people the freights paid for the trans-
portation OF cotton, iron, wool, hides, ce-
dar, copper and other articles Of home pro-
duction 10 the various manufacturing dis
tricts, and the freight on the same ar
ticles when returning TO us, after being
manufactured, we would soon have a capi-
tai sufficient TO build a Gotten or wooden
factory in every county in the State, and
furnace wherever there is a bed Of ore.
The Lowell manufacturer not only pays US
the home value Of our products, but the
freights and insurance 10 his mile, and
then be sells as the same goods at price
which pays him handsomely. If this
Il al. a.
districts Of the North, who have to pay for
transportation a thousand miles, how
much greater would be the profits Of the
same articles if manufactured at the place
of production We make our cotton, and
employ Lowell and other manufacturing
cities to convert il into domestics. We ex-
hibit some enterprise in taking iron ore
from our exhaustless beds, but forthwith
send IL 10 Cincinnati OF Pittsburg to be
manufactured into bar iron, plows, scythes,
axes, spades and cutlery. We even buy
our hollow ware in the Northern markets,
made Of iron taken from the hills at our
very doors. Ancient Lebanon never was
crowned with such magnificent cedars as
the mountain regions Of Tennessee, yet we
30 TO Cincinnati to buy buckets and churns
manufactured from this cedar we have
tested the value of agriculture, unaided by
manufacturer to develop the wealth Of our
STATE and to-day our bonds are at 624 in
New York, our credit impaired, our fields
impoverished by injudicious cultivation,
and the wealth of California sleeping al
most undisturbed in the bosom Of our hills.
a State has other wants beside those of bread
and meat. Clothing, shoes, hats, farming i'm
plements and labor saving machines are
as necessary to the life of a nation as its
daily food. While a State cannot become
great purely by agriculture, il would
equally fail to attain wealth by manufac-
lures alone.
Agriculture and manufactures must 60
hand in hand. They are two converging
streams, which, when united, float the COM
merce Of the world. They are the sun
shine and shower which make the desert
waste Of otherwise fruitless States, blossom
with luxury and wealth. The antagonism
which has grown up 10 some countries be-
tween The tiller of the soil and the manu'
facturer, is like the war between the foot
and hand of the same body. Agriculture
has never been as successful in a purely
agricultural country as in q region where
~ Is stlIuulateu Dy tue ChhanSON
given to all farm products by the various
wants Of manufacturers. To make agri'
culture flourish in any country, We mus
bring manufactures 10 her aid, which, by
taking from the farmerhi surplus produce
gives energy to his operations and encour.
ages disposition to extract from the soil
the largest possible yield. Without that
stimulous, the farmer in many places IL
the State has no motive 10 increase hi'
crops, because there is no demand for his
produce. But let manufacturing estab'
lishment be started in his neighborhood
which will buy every article which he car
bring TO market, and Immediately you
arouse within him thirst for greater pro-
duction, and tn general wealth Of th'
State is secured thereby.