The weekly clarion., 1873-01-16
INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS.
LETTER FROM HON. T. J. HUD-
SON, OF MARSHALL.
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EDITORs APPEAL-In the Independent
South Of the twelfth u.timO, | notice Il
call upon Hon. Thomas J. Hudson and
the Press as to the policy Of holding, At
your suggestion, a Planters Convention,
at Memphis, early in 1873. l am doubt
less indebted for This call from having
been the President Of the Planters Con
yention OF the South, from the date OF
its organization in 1888, to the beginning
Of the late war between the States.
The able articles Of the Memphis Al
peal the South. and other journals, on
the subject Of developing the agricultur
al and manufacturing resources Of the
South, have directed the Intelligent
minds Of the country to the inestimabie
value of establishing permanent Indus
trial Congress. The time is auspicious
for the movement The people are ripe
for action, and the press, ever alive 10
progress, and tired of political strife, will
labor to intuSe life and energy into every
industrial pursuit.
We want labor, capital and diversi-
fed industry-to secure either or all of
these we want concert OF action among
people. With agricultural and mechan-
ical associations III the States, and an In
dustrial Congress composed of delegates
fresh from the people, can, after an in
terchange of views, secure unity of ac-
ton and indicate the wisest policy to ac-
complish all that is desirable to promote
our great interest.
Say that on the first Monday in May,
1873, we have such a Congress at Mem
phis. Invite hitherto, from the North,
West and So&th, the representatives OF
the agricultural, manufacturing and
commercial interests of the entire coun-
try. No party or sectional question 10
be discussed. The Southern delegation
will be enabled to show the North an!
West our great want of intelligent labor,
10 demonstrate TO them that we have 4
boundless country open to them, AMI as
farmers, mechanics and capitalists, no
land can offer the same advantages.
With Northern immigration secured,
we have the key to European labor. We
cannot, however, hope to chsnge the tide
of immigration to the Great West from
Europe until we have changed the opin-
ION Of the Northern people us to our real
character. This can be done, and friends
made of them by meeting together in
council and consulting together for the
country's good.
We have seen that during the year
ending June 80, 1872, more than four
! hundred thousand emigrants landed IN
this country Taking the estimated val
ue Of each immigrant at eight hundred
dollars we have us the aggregate eco
nomical value of the total addition to our
population, more in value than the cot
- oil
our efforts hitherto We have failed to OBJ
tain but small amount OF this labor and
capital.
Intelligence is power, and the South is
suffering for intelligent labor. The val
ne OF such labor cannot be estimated. -
Each immigrant forms kind Of nucleus
around which gather mis- friends and re-
lations, adding annually to the capital OF
their adopted land
We want home manufactures; to sue
ceed. we must have skilled workmen.-
/ We can, through the committees of this
I convention, give reliable information as
to our advantages We can in the same
way obtain valuable information as to
the machinery used in cotton manufac-
tories; the place and way of getting
workmen. If, then, we fail in enlisting
1 Northern enterprise, we can, when we'll
informed. establish manufactures of our
oEu.
Our people could, in a short time, es-
tablish cotton manufactures over the
South. but they are without the desired
information. They wish to know the
cost of machinery, aud where the skilled
workmen are to be obtained. They want
to start in small way and gradually, as
profits justify, enlarge their manufacture.
Thousands of our people are ready, when
enabled TO make judicious investments,
to subscribe literally to cotton and other
manufactures. There is no doubt that
the greatest ignorance prevails in the
masses of the North in reference to the
Southern people. The people of Europe,
getting their opinion through the North
ern press and people, have not the least
conception of our real character. They
know nothing of the extent and variety
of our productions; oui healthy and de-
/ lightful climate; our rich soil our vast
+undeveloped resources; our mountains of
rich ores; our noble rivers and water
powers unsurpassed in the world. This
/ ignorance on the part of Europeans and
the pIeiudices Of the Northern mind can
be eradicated through the agency of a
Congress representing the paramount in
terests of the North and South, and ris-
ing in their views and purposes far above