Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-03-21
OUR MANUFACTURES.
The wonderful story OF Tea Years.

UUk MANufAU UnEo,
The wonderful story OF Tea Years.
It would be difficult to compress
into smaller space the vast amount Of
useful information which appears i'll
the tabular statement of the manUfao-
lures of the whole country. We have
fortunately been enabled to obtain this
highly important exhibit from advance
sheets. in anticipation Of the regular
publishing day, about two weeks hence.
Let no one be repealed by chronic
dislike of figures from examining the
remarkable statistics. The arrange
ment is simplicity itself By single
glance across the Hne one may trace
the growth in manufactures of each
State, between the decennial periods
when the last three censuses were
taken. Looking up or down the
columns he can instantly compare the
development Of any State, in this
respect, with that OF any other State;
and he must be dullard if the figures
do not set him a-thinking on to the
causes of the startling disparities he
there finds. In point OF suggestive
ness-as key notes to possible ed1to-
rails, lectures and books-the tables
are solid masses of texts.
We will not undertake to preach
from them much to-day; but refer to
the accompanying letter Of ollr Wash
ington correspondent for out of the
many interesting deductions and
| moralizations which noturally arise
from their perusal. To our mind, the
| most striking thought is this: What g
| terrible thing is civil war; how it blasts
| and curses the fair land over which it
RACES! Here are the Northern States
led off by New York, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts,, which always stood at
the top in the order Misunderstanding
or more than doubling the value OF
manufactures between 1860 and 10;
while the Southern States, nearly all
of which exhibited large gains i'll this
item of wealth between 1850 and go,
have made but small proportional adj
vance in the last ten years. Virginia
Gnc' uding West Virginia. with all hen
recuperative energy, has gained but
1000, 900 on her returns for 1860
whereas the census of that year showed
an increase of $2l, 900, 900 over that O
! 1850. Georgia is the only one of the
distinctly Southern States which has
doubled the value of her manufactured
products, thus keeping pace with the
average DEVELOPMENT OF all the North
ern States. AL the other Southern
States which staled their fortunes OF
secession, and were made to feel TIL
sharpest effects of war, fall far behinC
; the ratio Of improvement which the.
would have shown had peace not Ece-
broken.
, Figures like til=se MAKE eloquent.
for ptace-tlicy ere moro potent tha'
al the publications. Of tha America
, Peace Society, the i'cpo-:<' 81 the
{ annual conventions thrown IL. Dnrin.
, | the five years since tic wa Ito la:
the South would have made il, -,
Roadway il se,f-rccoverv he'd her - .
oiuties been promptly removed nnit :
) The roprcsaive measures towards 70
, | been disseminated AIuter;4l r.'a&o5
combined with moral reasons III i,
,nan,iine That thai act o. irstice q,
= good poke should iave been dor
: long ago. Had it been donc -
q Southern states would appear to nuc
better advantage IN the ccns'7s ,
1876 t: ~ they do; their citizcl
would Zee. more fully rrcnncilc"
a restored union, and the :iitI
t could rew be partaiiin~, II aha
7
peace. With these tables IL We. y
again press the claims OF Gle :
Il for Immediate universal ann est,
e order that the last hirG.rance may /
e removed from her free natural CrOWt-
u Let it be Gone, ana ~ have no e.
/ that the census OF SI2aj w;l! rot demo-
c st:a!c tl.c wisdom or t.1Gt course II [!
: great gain in Southern Inauufact;lril
e interests. Ohio. Indiana, lllino'
Il Iowa, Missouri. Minnesota. AMI III 4
II thrifty States OF the erea; Wet, :hioT2
Il their chief wealth is Agricultural, 2
u yet highly prosperous, and waGl!
- richer every day in manufactures.
II Nothing more forcibly exhibits Tx
Is rapiditv of growth in population and ;
e that makes up civilized commUuiti
:, than the astounding leaps whi.-ti tic
IL States have taken in the manufacturil
l. line in the past ten years. ioy
p amounts up from Sl4. coo. 900 to 81
n 600. 900 Michigan fl ON S}2, eco. 900
r. s11S. OOO, 900 Minnesota from s., 10'
to S23. 900, 900; Indiana from 3l2, oct
10 900 to S1OS. 900. 900 Illinois from >
,e OOO. 900 to S205. 900, 900 Missouri fro
C S41 900, 900 to $206, coo, 600 {: and o.!
from S12 100000 to $500. OO0, -
10 These illustrations are taken at ranlo
lie from the tables. The entire West
IL we'll as the North-tells but the sal
- story of enormous gains III The valve
manufactured produces III the past q
a cade. And all these figures, as q 70,
note apprizes us, do not render fl
q Justice to the manufacturing industri
-, of the country. For in the tables
= 1850 and 1860 the statistics for ninin
~ quarrying and fishing are include
to whereas they do not appear in tho
IA Nor 1870. With this explanation t
, gains which We have pointed out |
~ come still more astonishing. tnder
st fully-restored union and fraternity, a
I'd reformed government, wise, just "a
u economical, who can forecast the VIC
-. derful future prosperity i'll store
:, the United States.-N y. JOsr2'W
IS Commerce.
D., Cotton.
20 will give you the result of az {
pertinent I made this year in plant