New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-26
MANUFACTURERS.

ton. For years has this want been fel
: and acknowledged, but never as much a
now do this people admit the necessity G
home manufacture and of the establishment
e of manufactures in their midst.
These States have no lack of resources
: and all that Is necessary is the development
OF those natural advantages that lie within
reach Of the man or set of men who maj
choose to embark in such enterprises. II
, North Carolina and in Northern Alabama
cordial invitations have been extended tC
and accepted by active and energetic mer
from the North, who have erected manu-
factories and other extensive works, where
are employed numbers of mechanics and
) laborers, thus adding population and
wealth to the community where they are
located. The great power and influence o.
the Eastern States is mainly attributable
to their manufactures So 1t might have
been with the Southern States had
they displayed the same energy and inter.
est in manufactures as the people in the
eastern and northern portion of our eoun.
try. There every inducement is offered to
mechanics and artisans to become a part
of the community where their ingenuity
and labor is required; thus their capital
adds to the wealth of the place in which
they make their homes. An aggregation
of such people in their employment with
the wealthy manufacturer bring prosperity
and population where the mandatory is
established 1t is well known historical
fact that when the prosecutions of Philip
the Second, of Spain, drove from the Dutch
provinces the artisans and mechanics who
gave them wealth and revenue; and when
the bigoted and cruel Charles the Ninth, of
France, by the wholesale slaughter of his
Huguenot subjects, who composed the arti-
sans of his empire, these industrious peo-
pie took refuge in England, where they
were protected and encouraged, and thus
added to the resources and revenue of this
asylum, which they sought from oppression
and persecution. In our own South, be-
fore the war; scarcely any respect was
shown to poor, honest mechanic, because
he esrned his living by the work of his
own hands. He was tabooed and so har
raised by the aristOcracy who ruled in the
South, that he was compelled to seek an
asylum in the North, where his honest toll
was appreciated and rewarded.
Before the breaking out of the late civil
war, it was the enterprise of the mechani-
cal and other branches of Industrial pur-
suits which gave to the one section its DOW
Grand greatness over the other; by which
the southern people saw that they were
decreasing while the North was increasing.
One Ofthe great, and in fact the most i'm
portant element or source of this increase
was its manufacturing interests, and it was
in great measure, owing to this interest
under an overriding Providence, that en-
abled the North to.triumph in the war. As
an evidence of what has made the New
England States what they are in wealth and
population, and how their diversed indus
try has enriched them, it is said that the
STREAMS which wind about the wooded |
hills and mountains of this region, useless
as they are for navigation, shallow, wind
ing, rocky and rapid, frequently have such |
descent that there can be factory vii |
lage every mile or two of their course for
many successive miles. Travellers by |
such railroad as the Housatonic, know
this to their sorrow, fer these villages are
so frequent along the bank of the Housa-
tonic river, that there is stopping place at
some parts of the time every mile-and-a-
half Among the glorious wood crowned
heights of Berkshire a traveller passed in
an afternoon ride the following manufacto-
ries: An iron smelling furnace; tive very
manufactures of the finest wri-
ting paper, the linen rags for which are
brought from the shores of the Mediterra-
mean; large wooden mill; a small factory
Of folding chairs and camp stools; manu-
factory of something in cotton; mill for
grinding poplar wood into material for
paper; and some others, at little distance
rom the road, the nature of which could
1ot be disoerned. All these may be seen
n ride of ten miles along Houastonic, and
MI are kept in motion by that little busting
Itream."
To prove the attractiveness of these fac
ories in the New England States, and
which would be the same in the South if /
he people would show the same spirit of
diversified industry as these "infernal Yam
Iees," as they are called, it is stated that
n some parts Of New England, Irish and
German emigrants come much faster than
hey can be assimilated to the people among
whom they settle. at is curious to
zee how these emigrants, who arrive in
he county at the rate of a thou (
and a day, distribute themselves |
'ver the land and settle just where they !
re wanted. Tn g obscure factory vii |
ages swarm with Irish people and Ger 1
mans; but no Yankee sends for them. They I
'ome. II they do well they induce their {
Citations and friends to join them; If work ,
s scarce, if the factory closes, they either |
cater among the farmers TO subsist, and
Vait for the reopening, or band of them
moves off to Iowa, Wisconsin or Mime {
ota." agl e. II
If the people of the South would only I
ealize the simple truth that diversified in
ustry is one Of the chief secrets of coun- i