New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-23

| manufacturer lOUnO Ills Oest dIIy III tAis
sect. 1t gave him q monopoly of al
fabrics, and compelled the planter Of the
most valuable staples to exchange them
for the perishable commodities made by
the mill and cottage industry Of the North.
Under this admirable remuneration Of
of mechanical pursuits, the mechanic Of
the North realized much more from bale
of cotton than the planter who pro-
duced it. Under this system of abnega-
ton the North went into the late
civil war armed with the capital
accumulated from slave labor, the me-
chanical resources to manufacture arms,
the commercial capacity to export and
import from abroad, and . system of in
dustry which gave employment to every
worker in the land to fill the war orders
of the government. The disciples of
Machiavel relied upon diplomatic inter-
vention; they exported cotton and relieved
the wants of the world, the mills of Man.
chester included. They had spurned
ships and rail roads, and SO were without
means to convey the surplus supplies of
one part of the South to relieve the ne
cessities of another If the doctrine was
correct that the States possessed right to
withdraw from the Union, this was the
last party to have enforced the right, if
disputed. There was never before, per-
haps, party which advocated their own
dependence on the very people they stood
in apprehension Of So, if Northern mo-
nopolists of home manufactures and North
ern capitalists who funded the deprecated
securities Of the war in national obi
cation made good by the results of the
war, would to-day acknowledge their best
benefactors. they would erect statute to
Nh. Calhoun, and niche around it all the
Keitts, Barnwells, Rhetts and other ene-
mics of the ship and workshop. The
Southern people, naked and disarmed by
this sect, denied in great part the privi-
lege of industrial employment by its coun-
sells, owe them an eternal resentment and |
q perpetual exclusion from public and
political confidence. We can see the |
traits of this sect in political events since
the war, and even up to the present.
Their agency is visible in the attempt to
revive sectional and party strife. They
are conspicuous in their incapacity. if
not in disposition. to educate the
people or employ the people. They
rely on popular ignorance to COM
orehend the cause of popular want,
md hope by perpetual fretting to wear
part the Union that they could not
Freak asunder by force. This sect is
waning in its influence. and was set in an
agonism to all conservative sentiment in
by the recent issue on compro-
Mise.
We have alluded to one of the most
Unhappy errors with which the Southern
mind has been imbued by these teachers.
is that any mechanical occupation tends
0 the Generalization of the operative.
he abstraction still remains that q pro-
Getting tariff is unconstitutional, and that
would be as dishonorabl to start |
hop under its provisions as to have ac-
epted the vote of a negro was some years .
ince.
Setting apart the fact that State rights
lanter of protected sugar, or Pennsyl-
ania puddler of protected iron, or that
lew Hampshire Yankee who advocated
BOLTON and protection were unobjec-
enable allies and agents, the proposition
as broadly made by the disciples of ,
that the tariff was disgraceful f
I'D oppressive Yankee engine for to Z
of the South.
The question Of the constitutional right
Congress to discriminate in favor of !,
omestic manufactures has been settled :
? public debt which requires rate of .
tiles on imports which enhances the
'st of imported goods. Whether forty s
n cent duty imposed on the paper 4
hereon We write was intended for rev. i.
ue or protection, is a matter of little b
the price of the paper in .
udes the duty on the article imported. :.
With the establishment of protecting q
riff, we would like to know why the G.
'uth can not take advantage of it? If b
ere be this permanent shelter for infant r
dustries, why may not Louisiana enjoy ii
o asylum as well as Rhode Island | y
othing prevents the organization Of b
ese Southern industries except the anti n.
ated hostility to the loom, the spindle, it
d the forge, inculcated by the Machia- a,
llians and never dissipated by counter b
unset or the active agency of those So
10 love their country and their kind. al
Suppose then We take the two great in
'ments of mechanical production. CT
ley are strictly composed of two q,
ms. 1. Raw material. 2. Labor. If
take the first element we shall find n,
1ch of it drawn from the South. Labor y,
the concrete comprehends food, fuel, OF
elter. The aid or agency of the machine Sc
an element of labor. 1t will be observed %
It We have not included capital in the B
tegory of elements Of manufacturing NJ
oductions. We have not done SO because 10
pital depends on the demonstrated safe r.
and profit of investment We have no At
Ace to take these elements III detail, ne
ough we have at hand material to do so. n,
e destiny of the South as manufac- to