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common with all other monopolies, was adverse to the (levelo})ment of 

 manufactures. More than this, the sentiment against slavery, which 

 spread about this time tliroughout Christendom, isolated the industrial 

 institutions of the South. Forced by the necessity of the case to .stand 

 by the institution with which, against her protest, she had been bur- 

 dened, she faced single-handed the public opinion of the civilized world. 

 Feeling that every man's hand was against her, she became suspicious 

 of strangers, Immigration ceased almost entirely, and the elbow-touch 

 vv'ith the great industrial advance of the age was lost ; resigning her- 

 self almost as exclusivelv, as she was elsewhere excluded, to agricultural 

 pursuits, South Carolina satisfied herself with such profits as were gained 

 in the culture of cotton, and produced the largest amount of the raw ma- 

 terial ever offered in the markets of the world. Even then. South Carolina 

 was not unmindful of the great advantages to be obtained from diversified 

 pursuits, and the development of manufactures. Propositions for employ- 

 ing slave labor in cotton factories were discussed, and ninety-eight negro 

 slaves as operatives, under a single white overseer, were successfully 

 worked at the Saluda Factory, near Columbia, in 1S48, and in this same 

 factory, destro^'ed during the war, and rebuilt since, mixed operatives 

 have been emplo^'^ed, and the negro has been found as capable of learn- 

 ing, within certain limits, as the white. 



'When at length the obstacle of slavery was forever removed, as a re- 

 .sult of the war of secession, step by step w4th the recovery of the people 

 from the ruin then wrought, the interest in manufactures has advanced. 

 To-day there is, perhaps, no community more anxious to diversify their 

 pursuits, and to engage in manufactures, than the people of South Caro- 

 lina. Abundant evidence of this is given in the exemption, b}' stat- 

 ute for ten years, from taxation of all capital invested in manufactures, 

 by the encouragement that has been given to immigration, and particu- 

 larly b}'- the growth of manufacturing industries. 



This will appear more clearly by an inspection of Tables A, B, and C, 

 on the following page. 



