The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-03
Manufacturing in the South.
From the Hartford Times. |

From the Hartford Times.
Gradually the people of the south
ern states are learning by practical
experience the economies by which
it is possible to do their own manu-,
featuring. Several mills ar. now
under way, in the south, for the pro-
auctions Of the cotton fabrics for
which they depended, before the
war. upon New England. One of
the new mills is at Augusta, Geor.
gia, and it is beginning with a capac
ity of 10000 spindles, which can be
increased to $4,000. The paid up
capital is S150,OOO, and the author.
lied capital $4,000. The water
power is abundant and unfailing,
and the cotton grows near by. There
is abundant water power in upper
South Carolina, Georgia, and Ala
bama, for all the manufacturing the
south will need for a century; and
the indications are that it will grad
ually be brought into use. There
IS no good reason why the south
should not make its own cotton
goods instead of sending the raw
material to the north to be made
up; and in regard even to woolens
the only question is whether the
south will or will not develop the
requisite manipulative skill and econ
omy III the various processes, to
make this also profitable home
industry. In this latter branch, how
ever, the south is not likely to com
pete with the north for some time
to come, for success in the wooden
manufacture is an educational pro
cess, and results are only reached
by skilled labor, and such watchful
care and attention to all the stages
OF the work of the employees as is
rarely given but 10y those who have
direct personal interest in the
mill. The cotton manufacture is
likely to come up first. in the south:
and we see 40 good reason why the
south cannot also make it's own
hoes, and saddles, aud boots and
shoes. We have seen, right here al
home, how effectually the war has
cut of from us our old-time southern
customes for these things-say, for
example, the saddle business, which
was once considerable interest in
Hartford, and chiefly dependent on
the south; it is destroyed now, and
there is little likelihood that any of
these branches of northern manu-
facture will ever again flourish on
such southern trade as they once
had. 1t is the opportunity Of the
south. If the weak and vacillating
man who has been placed in the
presidential Office by notorious
fraud ever sees his way clear to
withdraw the federal army forces
from the southern states-whe,e
they have no business, aud where
he has no more constitutional right
for such interference in state cleo
tons than he has to interfere in Con
necticut, then, with relief from the
devouring cancer of carpet-bag rule,
the day-break of a new era will be.
gin to replace the long night of the
south, and her people will be made
to learn the greatest lesson in the
life OF state, as of the individual
the lesson of self.reliance. Then, and
not till then, with peace, law, and
order, visibly and permanently es
tablished in the southern states, and
with equal rights guaranteed for
all, the south may expect to see it's
own efforts towards self-restoration
aided, for the first time, by little
OF that European immigration which
has hitherto so carefully Stunned
the sunny and fertile lands of the
south, for the naturally less inviting
fields of the northwest. The south
ern states have passed through a
hard and bitter experience; but
there ought to be, at last, new and
better era opening on that long -suf.
fering section of our great country,
IN which the southern states, natur-
ally the richest part of the country,
can recover. and more than recover
their old-time prosperity, and add
materially to the national wealth.
Wade Hampton appears to be the
representation OF the true idea which
is to lead the restoration of the New
South, and the people instinctively
trust and honor him.
The Illinois Iepisl.ture has nass-