New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-29

pared to e0y-but 1t Is certainly TACT that
there has always in the history Of mankind
appeared to be tendency to an unnatural
jealousy, if not antag Orism, between the
agricultural and the other industrial classes.
Sometimes, as we'll in ancient as in modern
times, this tendency has shown itself in
tho formation and sentiment Of political
parties, but it has shown itself more fire.
qnently, perhaps more powerfully, in social
alterations and invidious class distinctions.
Such antagorism. let me repeat, is most IN
natural and hultfnl. Agriculture and the
mechanical Industries are equally necessary
III laying the foundations of an enduring
prosperity in every nation under heaven,
and neither can advance to excellence with
out the other.
This was the great distinction between
the parties Of Cay and Calhoun. The
Southern Wing was a bank bought pro-
tectionist, the Southern Democrat was a
hard handed tillar of the soil, who had no
use for any other industry.
Governor Hendricks touches very ten
derby this ancient prejudice against the
mixed industries:
l have spoken of this point With some
emphasis, because the tendency Of your SEE
tiGn is very naturally to the exclusive pre-
ductiOn OF few great Staples which can no
where else be cultivated Nith the same ad
vantages of climate and facilities OF trans
portatiOn.
can not think that your entire devotion
to the production Of these staples, while
you totally neglect other branches OF in
du.try for the pursuit. of which nature has
| endo we'd you with equally great facilities,
| is, economically speaking. a wise Or prudent
| thing; and as producers and the representa-
tives OF producers, YOU can not, and you
| ought not to avoid this question. with what
diversity of industries is it expe,lient that
your capital shall be investet; and your
labor employed2
We do not like to discourage one who
takes such interest il our welfare, but we
are compelled to say that the chief atten-
ton to the mechanical interests among us
is confined to our periodical exhibitions,
and the distribution Of an unemployed
people may be attributed to ''misgovern-
ment, and is not unimportant clement
among our political woes.
Governor Hendricks is evidently i'm
pressed with the belief that we have at
tanned a higher advance in the mechanic
arts than we can rightsully claim.
He says:
Here, from workshop. field and house
hold, you have gathered products of your
industry, and trophies of yourskiil.
If his exce-lency will peruse the ford
compliments to our enterprisirg citizens
and visitors, who import the manufactures
of the North and West and exhibit them
at our periodical displays, he viii find
that domestic manufactures bear q very
small proportion to those which are put
up abroad and sent here for sale.
While the address is good teaching as
far as it goes, NIr. Hendricks falls back
upon the opinion that We are better fit for
making cotton, rice, and sugar, than for
anything else. He explains how we have
made more specie exports than any other
part of the union, and we are exhorted
to make fifty million dollars more specie
annually, which will relieve the nation
and make good both the securities and
circulation In this connection, Governor
Hendricks treats Of the importance OF
union and fraternity, and the impro-
priety even Of cultivating the mechanic
arts, in any spirit Of sectional inderend-
ence, as recommended by Hon. L. II. T.
Hunter in respect to federal railroads.