The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-22

CorToN MANUFACTURE, NORTH AND
SOUTH. The history of cotton manu-.
faoture in the United States is both
curious and instructive. It's rise aud
growth has been more recent and rapid
than the majority of well-inforp,ed per.
sons suspect. Nominnliy. the first i'm
pulse was givon in tho yeur 1914, but
practically the great movement which
has brought tho United States into
rivalry with England dates back but
fifty years As recently as the year
1910. The manufactured products OF V.r
ginia exceeded those of Massachusetts
in value So, 500, 900 per annum. Every
one Knows how the comparative reckon
ing stands to.dny. Tue enterprise o!
ono man, seconded by the energy and
industry of the community in which he
lived, has for the last half century made
the South tributary to the North, and
made the former both producer nnd con
snmor FIR the benefit and profit Of The
latter.
In tho war Of 1912. n wealthy aud in
telligent young Bost oman was made pri-
soner mud taken to England, where he
Was struck with the inventions of Ark
wright and HurSravcs, as applied to the
British cotton manufacture. This young
mnn, whose namc still lives, in this con
ncctiOn, ia that great manufact .ring
marvel Of Massachusetts, the town Of
l. ,we.l. with the aid of All ingcniou
Scnichman, Slmnel Slater by name, re-
turning home, selected W.i!tham, on the
Charles River, ia stream since made ia
mons in song us we'll US in story as tie
sito Of his experiment.; and from that
grain OF mustard seed has sprung up
the forest Of factories which uas Since
aourished oh Now England s,il.
Speaking OF this matter but very re-
Gently, one Of the most eminent citzeus
of Massachusetts nude this rem ,rknbia
prophecy, which may be much near.r
It's fuliilment than either hc or the
great majority Of his hearers imagined.
General Banks usel this language:
The industrial processes discovered by
Lowell will not have been thoroughly
established until tha cotton Of the coun.
try shall have been utilized by mann
flctnrers on the land where it is pro
duccd. III well ns iron, over tho mex
hanstible beds of ore and coal with
which nature has So layish!y enriched
this country"
To General Banks. himself, as we'll rs
to bis auditors, simple recital Of VIVA.
the Southern people are dping in this
very matter, and have done ever since
the last unreliable census returns were
nude fouy years ago, will b.. almost a
revolution AS we'll ns Il confirmation Of
the correctness of his statement. The
a II ~, 81.
will cunfound the anxious Of the other
wise, and again reverse the roluiive po.
sitions OF the North and S outh ns manu-.
taoturlng centres. fulfilling tho conli.
tons laid ont by the man of Massa
chuse.ts. much earlier than even he
expected, by bringing the raw material
and its manufacture into immediate
proximity all over the cotton States, as
1t is now the case i'll Georgia, South ca
rolina and Alabama
Of tho young and growing Loweils oI
the new South-at Graniteville, iu
South Carolina. at Augusta aud Colum
bus, at tho Elstcrn aud Western ex
tremes of Georgia, at and near MontGo
mery, in Alnbama-little has been said
or written, and less generally known, a.
yet; but theac are indeed most promis
ing pioneers in this mighty indus.ria
movement, and the rapid though steady
progress they have made in the pas
lhreo years. recalls the similar march tc
success and wealth made in Massnchu
setts. aud throughout New Eugiaud
during tho early part of this century,
Ea'oin ds Lem. in HVpsr's -N.gusine
for February.