Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-05-01

tween us on U INFECT OF protecting home ana'1ss
factures Bad a. the times are for cotton planters,
(of whom I am one in a small way) they would be
much worse. but for the demand Of our manufacto
res for the raw article. | should like to see more
effectua protection extended to the growth and ma
n.fact,,re of acool These and such like measures
will in time make us independent"
The preceding is literal extract, and the parti-
cular words are marked as by the writer himself
and such, repeat it. is rapidly growing opinion
amonr the people of the SOUTH The time aUN come
when cotton planters shall be many times more
anxious for protective tariff than the cotton spin
ners To the last, indeed, it is noaO of little i'm
nortance except to maintain sfeadiness in the home
market for they meet the British in fair and manly
competition abroad, and undersel them in every
market which is equally free TO our fabrcks and
theirs This is " confirmation strong as proof Of
ho1y ,rrf'' that. while they consume so large por-
tion of the products of our Planters they neither de-
mand or receive any advance from the said planters
on the manufactured article. over and above what
would be paid to foreigners, whether the cotton
was of American product not /; but furnish them
with cotton goods at much reduced prices.
The progress of the cultivation of cotton in the
United States is every wav wonderful. IF any per-
son had predicted. thirty-6ve years ago, that the
cron of 1896 would have amounted to 600 bales,
or about $50 millions of pounds, we should have put
him down for mailman a fOol-saying. =" 90 to
teen wears ago, that North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama St.. should now produce what they do.
we cou1a not have believed him if it had been said
only five years ago, that Virginia would cultivate
and send into market nearly DO, 900 bales in 1896,
we should have laughed at the proposition and if it
had been suggested. that crop of cotton should be
made in MARYLAND in the last year, MANY would
have smiled at the notion' How much further
north the cultivation will go--no can venture
to assert: but Maryland. Delaware, New Jersey,
and Illinois and Missouri. and perhaps other states,
rnav very possibly, furnish considerable supplies of
cotton and Arkansas and Florida will certainly
cultivate the plant as extensively as it is cultivated
any where f profitable. The cotton producing re-
zion of the United States thus embraces large tract
charlottesville. in itself if cultivated as it easily
NAV be. sufficient to supply the WhoIe morM with
that valuable commodity. Of this and of the pro-
gress Its cultivation the planters should take most
serious notice. Egypt is pouring out ne'c and large
supplies for the European market and that country
and Greece, and the Greek islands, are capable. in
themselves, of supplying all Europe-and probably
will do it, should the latter be emancipated and
have peace Labour is much cheaper in those coun-
tries than in our southern states freeman may
be hired for alittemor than the annual interest on
the money vested inEthe person of a slave in this
countrv and it is the cost Of abour and subsistence,