The native American., 1840-06-06

ETlru0rdinaTy prO1ect o. GHgt0Hd dSahH1
the gnned States. Combined influence
Of the British Anti-.Iarery and East III
dia interests against the Southern inter
ests of the United States. Extension Of
The Cultivation of Cotton IN India. Pro
Jable effect on the South.
The separate and combined movements of
the British government, the Fast India Com
pany, and the British Anti-Slavery Society,
NJ the present time, in relation to tie slave
labor system in the United States, are not
only curious, but are immensely important,
as deeply affecting the interests of the people
oil this country.
If any one ever doubted that the British
East India Company was determined to build
)np It's own interests at the expense of all the
great planting interests of the United States,
those doubts will be removed on reading the
following statement Of the operations Of that
Company.
Its members have an immense extent Of
1country and hundreds of thousands OF slaves
ito cultivate the soil, which will produce cot
ton and sugarofthe tirstquality, in abundance.
They wanted first to destroy the West India
Interests, and then the planting interests of
this country. They effected the former by
means of the Abolition Society, whose move
nlents and schemes they fostered, fomented
and perfected, until they almost annlhllated
the property of the sugar planters in Jamaica
and elsewhere This will enable them to
bring their East India sugar into market with
la profit, which they could not do before with
ont protecting duty.
Their next movement was to foster, fOment
and spread abolition doctrines in the United
States with view to break up the cotton
trade of the South. They have sent agents
here, and books, and money, and all sorts of
inducements to the fanatics to break mp the
system ofslavery. Failing in this, they have
sent ont agents to examine into the modns
|operandi of o,lr cotton growing, cleaning,
packing, &c, and have procured several skill
| tai Americans to go ont to India to put the
American system into practice. Ry this aid
and the labor oft their slaves, whom they call
| "ryotts;" bat are really slaves in most miser-
able state, they believe they can cultivate cot
ton enough to supply all England, in a few
| years.
To promote the culture of cotton in India
the government, or India Board of Directors,
recently appropriated Gl2OC0 sterling, and
appointed an agent. Captain Bayles, who has
recently been in he southern part Of this
country, for the purpose of gaining all the
necessary nformatixl respecting the method
pursued in the production of the article in the
southern states of North America. The cot
ton gin being an American invention, and its
Improvements to the present time having been
confined to America, the English hitherto
have not been able to make gins successfully,
or have not been able to int, oduce them into
India, or adopt the plan OF tiIaee which has,
| by the sklliul enterprise of the American,
been carried to so high degree of pertec-
tion. --.
In the fnIfiIment of his mission Captain B.
Earrived in New Orleans in February last, and
proceeded to examine into the management of
a large number of the best conducted cotton
estates situated in Louisiana and Mississippi
and succeeded in engaging twelve planters
aud overseers to proceed to Snrat, in India, at
salary of from to 10 to Gl2OO per ahnum,
and artcsed them to remain for a period of
FIVE years. He also purchased several of tile
latest and best improved cotton gins, and pro
cured models of gin houses, and propelling
machinery cotton presses, &c: together with
a lot Of the best ploughs and hoes for cult
waiting cotton.
| 1t is also the desire of the Board of Direc-
tors of the East India Company, to start the
manufacture Of cotton gins, presses, &c. in
England, for the supply of the East India
| plantations, and other cotton countries, such
as Egypt, Brazil the United States, &c. stimuli
taneorlsTy with the attempt to augment and
extend the cultivation of cotton in India. For
this purpose gentleman who has made i'm
portant Improvements i'll the cotton gins, and
has devoted number Of years past to this
branch Of manufacture at the south and its in
Production among the planters, has been en-
gagged to go out to England disappointment the
manufacture of this important description Of
machinery. The best machines have been
bought and sent out to England as models to
build from, together with 1000 lbs Of cotton
in the seed state, to try the gins with, and let
the workncn see the n,odus ope; undi of the
machines, SO as to enable them to construct
by actual experience the best gins that can be
made.
This will be new and important branch
of manufacture for Great Britain, and indie
pendent Of supplying India, other cotton mar
kets in the world would afford excellent pla-