The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-04-26
NEW ENGLAND CHICKENS.

home to roost Never since the war has the
South, nor any portion Of the South, regretted
the destruction of slavery. Never deplored
anything but the cruel sacrifices consequent
upon protracted and bloody war. Nothing
could be more unfounded than the charge
that the Southern people, or any portion OF
the Southern people, or any one in the South,
would have slavery restored. But the time is
at hand when New England will be sorrow
ing over the abolition Of slavery. The total
destruction Of her great industry is the price
she is about to pay for that fanatacism which,
amid blood and carnage, swept away slavery.
Before the war the South was content to
grow cotton. Not loom or spindle ever ex-
listed or was thought of on Southern soil. She
supplied the mills of New England with her
cotton, and its manufacture into fabrics filed
the Eastern States with wealth and
luxury, and has always constituted their
chief industry. All that is rapidly changing.
The South is being filled with manufactures.
She is no longer content to grow her cotton,
but proposes also to do the manufacturing,
and to do all the manufacturing. There will
soon be no raw material sent out of the cotton
States. During her IS years of freedom 1871
cotton manufactures have sprung up in the
Southern States, and they are yearly increas-
ing with a rapidity that will in few years
suppress wholly the mills of New England
This number is 10 more than the whole num-
Der in Massachusetts, and 27 more than the
whole number in New England, outside Of
Massachusetts. The irrepressible conflict"
has taken this unexpected form and will 60
on until every loom and spindle in New Eng.
land is completely silenced. Here is cry
from the Boston Traveller:
Though, however, cotton manufacturing in
the South is as yet in its infancy, it is never
theless becoming rapidly apparent that New
England must not be too sure of retaining u
monopoly of this branch of manufacture. A
sharp competition already exists, not only for
the trade in sheetinss in the cotton States, but
Southern cottons are now entering the mar
kcts of the Southwestern States and the New
Highlander finds himself confronted in all the
leading markets of tho Mississippi valley with
anu sulIllllks III nO way lultTlOT III
quality to those manufactured by himself,
and which are offered ut less price than he,
TO make his customary profit, can possibly af-
ford. Instead OF a possible competition 25
years hence, the danger which threatens the
New England manufacturer is already i'm
minent.
1t is not improbable that the freedom Shrek
ers of New England would have been silenced
in the days of slavery if it had been foreseen
that, within 20 years, the swift destruction of
her great industry would have set in, as re-
suit of abolition. 1t was not the fanatics nor
philanthropist's zeal that abolished slavery in
the Northern States where it also existed at
the beginning of the Government. 1t simply
did not pay. That it would not pay to sbol-
ish it in the Southern States was not thought of
by New England. She was willing, at the
cost Of millions Of lives and thousands If mil
lions of money, to wipe out the Course of
slavery" She denounced, and was willing to
dissolve the Union of the States as "a cove
nant with death and a league with
hell" But would she have been
willing to lay upon the altar OF
abolition her great industry had she foreseen
such consequence? 1t is not likely. 1t is
likely she would have been content with de-
nunciation and prayer and left Providence
wholly to deal with the curse of slavery.
But her chickens are coming home to roost
and, to-day, it is not the South but the section
of the William Lloyd Garrisons and Arthur
Tappans that would restore slavery and bring
back the condition of the country in ante
bellum days.
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