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R. F. H; 'ISON BUILT FOUNDRY TO MAKE MACHINERY AT MISSISSIPPI
CITY (OR HANDSBORO ?) -- PROPOSES DOCKS AT MISSISSIPPI CITY WITH CHANNEL DUG TO SHIP ISLAND HARBOR ~ CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS September - 1869
N.O. Times - Sunday, Sept. 5, 1869 Quadruple Sheet col 1
— Mr. R. F. Harrison of Mississippi City is out as a candidate for Congress for this District. Who is he ? —
"Port Gibson Standard"
Mr. Harrison, although for many years past a resident of Mississippi City, is veil known in this mercantile community of New Orleans as one of its most enterprising members.
Thoroughly acquainted vith the wants of the South in every detail; no less veil informed in regard to its resources, his attention was Ion? ago called to the importance of developing Southern manufactures, and to this end he has devoted years of his life and his entire means.
With but necessarily limited advantages he, several years ago built a foundry and workshop at Mississippi City for the production of all kinds of machinery, and thoroughly succeeded in placing engines and mills in this market of home manufacture which could compete successfully vith those of Northern manufacture, both in price and excellence.
He is also the originator of a project which, if carried out, will ultimately give Mississippi a seaport second in . importance to none along the Gulf coast.
Essentially a practical man in every particular; familiar with all the ramifications of mercantile business and our agricultural necessities, vith a head capable of Planning, backed up by an energetic will which, in the end surmounts all obstacles, Mr. Harrison is pre-eminently a ir.an for the times, and such a one as our sister State requires in Congress.
The day of village lawyers and of men whose only faculty has been in makinR stump sueaches, has gone forever. The South must now be represented by a race of thinkers -- men of brains and. experience, who can plan, watch and seiee advantages, and hot fritter away the interests of their constituents in senseless gab. We feel their choice could not fall upon a more worthy nor more capable representative.