{"id":2261,"date":"2023-04-04T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/2261"},"modified":"2020-01-20T20:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T01:16:28","slug":"rebel-tannery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rebel-tannery\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 4, 1863, (Marshall) <em>Texas Republican<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear Loughery,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>I had heard much of the extensive tannery, saw and grist mill, in course of construction by Gregg &amp; Co., but still had no conception of the extent of the enterprise, till recently happening to be near, I concluded to call by, see, and judge of the far-famed &#8220;Rebel Tannery&#8221; for myself. And I would here suggest to every one who can make it convenient, and who is a friend to progress and the advancement of such important manufactories, to do as I did, and he will see an amount of improvement, for the very short time the proprietors have been engaged in it, quite astonishing. I had seen in your paper a notice of this tannery by &#8220;Planter,&#8221; of your county, but I thought it probably was a picture highly drawn by a partial friend, but after seeing the progress that had been made in erecting extensive machineries, and the many conveniences for converting rawhide into leather, I found he had barely done justice to the establishment and the enterprise of its worthy proprietors.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>The people of the Southern Confederacy should give great encouragement to the erection of such manufactories, as produce articles of vital importance, <em>especially<\/em> if sold at reasonable rates. And in these times of high prices and extortion, there is nothing which so much entitle the proprietors to a liberal patronage as the comparatively very low prices at which they propose to sell leather.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>In conclusion I would be pleased to see them receive a liberal share of patronage from this, as well as the surrounding counties, and that in doing service to the public it will prove a source of profit to themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">A Planter of Rusk County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Dear Loughery, \u00a0I had heard much of the extensive tannery, saw and grist mill, in course of construction by Gregg &amp; Co., but still had no conception of the extent of the enterprise, till recently happening to be near, I concluded to call by, see, and judge of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Texas-Republican.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}