Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-10-28
I SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.

we nave Tong helu, says the lIynchpurS
Vnyiainn, that the South ought to marufac-
ture. a. we'll as grow the articles that furnish
the chief staples that give employment to
manufacturing industry. aud to capital. at the
North. AS the case now stands, we exchange
our raw materials with the North at reduced
price, to receive them back at much greater;
thus giving to that section all the profits of
manufacturing, while we pay the cost of ex-
change both ways! We are mere hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the people of
the North, who realize colossal fortunes out
Of the tribute We pay TO them / How long,
wonder, is this condition of things to last!
When, if ever, will We assert our independence
in the way that we have always desired to
achieve sectional independence? five were
to-day, commercially independent of the North,
las We could be. to very great extent.-we
should command more respect. and exert a
greater influence in the Union than we do
In that case, there would be less cause of
complaint about our federal relations than ex>
lists now, for the States of the South would
have more to do in shaping the Legislation of
Congress-.
We have been trying to impress these views
upon our section for twenty years. or more,
but never expected to find Republican ex-
Governor of radical Massachusetts,, that has,
to use figure of Mr., Jefferson's, "been milk
ing the COW" that we have been holding for
them. coming TO our aid. But it is even 60
for Gen P. Banks recently delivered leo
ture in New York on s'The System of Ameri-
can Mannfactures-its Origin, Authors. and
Results" of which the following report is
made:
General Banks contrasted the industrial
organization of the North with that Of the
South. The Southern States were compep-
stated for the lack of domestic manufactures
by the production of the great staple, cotton
tn 1910 the cotton crop was 100, 900 bales =;
in 1860 it was $500, 900. It was because
the labor system of the South had been built
on wrong basis that she was not more pros
porous and robust. The result of the late
war would have long trembled in the balance
bad Southern industry been based upon the
principles of the Northern system. The rrin-
will never be fully carried out until our raw
material is manufactured on the ground where
it is produced. Ills principles compose the
only solid basis on which industrial editices
can permanently stand. Lowell lstored at
his great scheme but five years, and died at
the early age of forty>three, leaving such a
monument of integrity, high ambition, i'm
Petu"us energy, and wonderful ingenuity. that
the wonder is that financial bubbles. gambling
schemes. speculations on fc.itions values,
could find place in a country which had pros
pered sn much from those industries"
word more on this subject: Mr.. Jef>
ferson. writin. to Northern man, in 1916.
said The time is now come. when we
should bring the producers and manufactures
together" We think tina, It has fully come
and hope that the South will now strike for
indenendence in wav that will prove more
successful than the effort she made in 1861
Her snccess in this respect would be harder
blow t" the unfriendly section than that was
which only served to enrich the North and
made the South poorer by, thousands of mil.
lions than she was before