Excerpt from Essays on Domestic Industry: Or an Inquiry Into the Expedience of Establishing Cotton Manufactures in South-Carolina, Originally Published in the Charleston Courier, and Now Re-Published at the Request of Several Gentlemen of Charleston

Had you, in your new-born zeal for manufacturing, mixed a little more patriotism with your efforts, you would have taken the pains to ascertain why your Vaucluse establishment did not realize the sanguine expectations of its proprietors. You would have put your own shoulders to the wheel, and by investing a portion of your large planting capital in the concern, with your known industry, you could not have failed to build Up an estab lishment, far more lucrative than your planting interest. This itself would have given an impetus to manufacturing, worth mil lions to our State. Had our respected Gen. Hamilton, in his zeal to build up Charleston, engaged in manufacturing instead of commerce, with his known talents, business tact and persever ance, success would have been inevitable. This would have placed him beyond the reach of that withering storm, which ship wrecked the fortunes and blighted the prospects of the wisest merchants in the world. With his large capital and due atten tion, there can be no doubt as to what would have been the result of his engaging in Cotton Manufacturing in Had these two gentlemen, Gen. Mcdufiie and Gen. Hamilton, put their capital into manufacturing in 1833, there is no telling to what extent it would have changed the investments of the State. It would, in all probability, have saved the greater portion of the large sum lost to our citizens by the failure of the United States Bank, and it would certainly have made valuable producers of many individuals who are now worthless consumers.

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