The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11

Col. L. d. Myers made speech to a
large audience in the Courthouse, Mon
day, on the subjects of Manufactures
and Internal improvements. The
HERALD had q reporter on hand and
took down his speech in full, but the
crowd I'd condition of our columns compels
us to publish only an epitome of what
he said
He said that all the rich men of the
nation were at the North; that no legal
or constitutional discrimination made
them so, for in fact, for half a century,
the government was Offered by South
ern men, and the laws OF the land favor
ed the the people i'll no particular locali-
ty. 1t was not because our people were
not intelligent enough or did not work
enough; MT because our soil was poor,
or climRte not solubriOns, or our sea-
sons were irregular, but simply beca Sc
our energies were misdiracteo I'VE
were crude producers and consumers,
when we ought to be manufacturers
The speaker here made a graphic state
ment of the superior money making ad-
vantages that the South had over the
North, and to sustain his propositions,
cited statistics largely, He also showed
that the South was not properly en-
ploying her facilities. His remarks
were PARTICULARLY applicable to Tennes-
see. He said that no agricultural peo-
pie eyer got rich. That Egypt, properly
called the gr4lnery Of the world, was
to-day poorer than it was when the
children of Israel crossed the Red sea.
That rnanufacturing was the only way
to procure solid and lasting wealth. 10
was easier to collect money in 1866 than
in 1877; and the reason was that IL had
all been sent to the North to buy names,
aX-handles, tooth-picks, shoe pegs, and
numerous other articles, mace out OF
. sv~.l, cl,
upon which We paid profit of fifty to
five hundred per cent, besides freight
boil ways. All this must be stopped,
AID we must 90 our own manufacture
ing He said that Maury county had
raised as much as 9, S67 bales of cotton in
a year. which would average Sl00 90 to
the bale; produced S64l 900 worth OF
= aughtered animals, and $2,6S2, 900 of
agricultural products, aggregating 49,
O00O 900 i'm all, or about 500 90 per
cdpitd That political e"Onomy t8usht
that YOU could not use over $65 per cap
ttG, aud that the surplus SIS per capita
had annually been sent to the North for
articles that ought TO be made at home.
Pig iron was shipped from Lewis coun-
ty to Louisville and Cincinnati, made
into stoves, shipped back and sold to US
at profit of 200 per cent, and freight
both ways.
Alter the Colonel concluded his re-
marks on the subject of manufactures,
he made an ell borate argument in favor
OF a Railroad running from Fayetteville
to Jacksonville and on through to st.
Louis, and one running through this
County, on a line Lassing through Mt.
Pleasant in the direction OF Chapel
| Hill, onthe Northeast. The value of such
| roads to this county was stated in unmis-
! taxable and mastery language. He
stated i'm his conclusion that at the July
/ term OF the County Court he would ask
| that body to Submit bill to the people
aPpropriating $500, 900 to aid In building
| the two roads referred TO, and severa
| pixies radiating from Columbia. We rs
( gret that we are not able to give his
/ speech in full,