Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-17

public mind no doubt, notwith-
standing.
Mr.. HORACE MAYNARD, of Ten
nessee, in Congress recently said, in a
speech favoring a protective tariff,
that " one most important and valu-
able lesson to be learned from the war
is the impolicy of relying upon inn
ports to supply articles Of prime ne
cessity which we car produce our
selves, even at a disadvantage and a
higher cost" To this Mr.. Duncan
Stewart, a business man of Detroit,
who, though misled as TO u social
condition, has a clear head for facts
and the tariff question, has replied
through the Tribune, Of that city, He
says the South has made great pro-
gress in the mechanic arts during the
war, and still greater since. We sub
Join the following extract:
Old and abandoned works have
been resumed and carried IN success
fully, aud of these there was no small
number. Of the new ones that have since
been established, the Southern papers
nave been full, so that these busy works
nave given new impetus to many sec
TONS. 1t is ven said that some Of these
Southern mills already have possession of
their local home markets. In b produc-
ton of coal, salt, iron, copper, zinc, lum-
Der and naval stores, great progress has
been made.
1t is a most pitisble sight to see q man
of an intellect like Mr.. Msynard's do his
utmost 20 sustain protection principles on
the ground that Tennessee needs protec-
ton against foreign salt and iron. Mr..
Maynard must be entirely ignorant ofthe
cost of producing pig iron and salt, as
well as of the 7 ich deposits of the latter
that are to be found in his own State. If
The salt springs of Tennessee are no richer
than those Of OnOndaga, salt, with the
cheap fuel everywhere on hand in that
State, can be made for less money
per loo lbs, than it can be carried from
Liverpool or Turks Island via New Or
leans, TO any port in Tennessee, except,
perhaps, to the river towns. Everywhere
else, the freights and charges from the
places named into the State, will exceed
the cost Of production in the State. Does
Tennessee need protection to her salt in
terests, when she can make it for less
than the freight and charges from foreign
countries.
With regard to iron and coal 1 will state
a few facts for Mr.. Maynard's considers
ton:
L. The coal area of Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama is computed at 40, 700 square
miles, or 1900, 600 square acres.
2. Within the area stated is a coal and
iron deposit, one-third the extent of Great
Britain, which, if developed to the same
extent as there, GnROt be exhausted in taD0
thousand gears.
8. The proposed railway south from
Cincinnati to Chattanooga ~traverses coal
fields for 200 miles and iron ore beds for
$50 miles. These are nearly 100 miles
wide, which gives a coal area in this re-
giOn lone equal to three times the total
coal area of Great Britain.
4. With coal, the iron ore, the lime,
sand rock and fire clay, lying side by side,
q superior quality of pig metal. can be
produced in this section, and at less cost
than anywhere else on this continent.
5. Nowhere else in the world is there
such 3 favorable combination of manufac-
turing advantages, ana nowhere else so
many and powerful elements Ofindividual
prosperity and national power.
l have just returned from the South,
and l have examined the cotton, salt and
iron question with care.
8. Prom Pittsburg to Nashville it is CSC
miles by rail. From New Orleans to
Nashville it is 790 miles by rail. With the
advantages named, pig-iron can be made
in Tennessee for less than the cost of trans
P~OrtatiOR from Pittsburg to Nashville,
and for very much less than Il sOOlId cost
10 freight English iron from Liverpool, or
any Of the Welsh ports, or the Clyde, via
NeU Orleans, to Nashville.
On this " hOla tariff Onauffon HonUraaa
has been ~overpowered and ~bewildered
with false statements. I think that nine
teen statements OWt Of every tapeNty made TO
Congress are untrue and calculated to mis-
lead.
The only protection Tennessee needs is
a mild application of the judicious hang
ing of midnight murderers and assassins.
b needs protection for life and prop
erty; she needs no protection for salt and
iron. Let Congress make the former Sc
cure, and the latter will take care of them
selves. Let that august body stop free
trade, in the use of bowie knives and re-
volvers In that State, and its salt and iron
can stand all he tree trade in these arti-
cles that any free trader can desire.
I believe with Mr.. Maynard tina it is
impolitic TO import articles of prime
necessity that we can produce ourselves"
Tennessee can produce salt and iron for
less money per ton than the freight now
costs her from the points named. Why
does she not do it? Simply because her
people are too unruly and too shiftless at
present TO do much of anything but abuse
Union men and shoot negroes.
MI. Stewart is evidently one of the
willing Radicals that readily believes
every thing he hears against the
Southern people, and he is about as
wild about facts relating to the good
order Of Tennessee as Congress is with
reference to such as affect the tariff
issue. With the exception of frequent
-arcenies by the negroes, the law is
as well as in any other State
in Tennessee before the war. 1t is
remarkable that any man not an
Enemy should pass through the State
low, and then go home and say Union
men are abused and negroes shot. 1t
hOws how Tennessee Radicals will
lie to strangers and travellers passing
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