Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-07-16

e Extraordinary project of England against III
y United States. Combined influence Of M
0 British Anti-Slavery and East India Interest
d against the Southern interests Of the y, State'
+ Extension Of the cultivation Of cotton in India
e Probable effect onthe South.
y The separate and the combined movement
n Of the British government, the East India Com
g pany and the British AntiSlavery Society, a
!, the present time, in relation to the slave labo
4 system in the United States, are not only curl
e Gus, but are immensely important, as deeply
affecting the interests Of the people this coun
ftry
: II any one ever doubted that the British Eas
/, India Company was determined to build up it:
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 o
country, and hundreds Of thousands of slaves
to cultivate the soil, which will produce cotton
and sugar Of the first quality, in abundance
They wanted first TO destroy the West India
interests, and then the planting interests oGthis
country. They effected the former by means
1 oil the Abolition Society, whose movements and
schemes they lostered, lomented and perfected
until they almost annihiated the property OF
the sugar planters in Jamaica and elsewhere
This will enable them 10 bring their East India
sugar into market with profit, which they
could not do before without protecting duty.
Their next movement was 10 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 ofinduce-
ments 10 the fanatics to break up the system
Of slavery.
Failing in this, they have sent out agents to
examine into the moduS operandi o! our cotton
growing, cleaning, packing, &C., and have pros
cured several skilful Americans to 60 out to
India TO put the American system into prac-
tlce, BY this aid and the labor of their slaves,
whom they call "ryotts," but who are really
slaves in most miserable state, they believe
they can cultivate cotton enough to supply all
England, in few years.
10 promote the culture Of cotton in India,
the government, or India Board Of Directors,
recently appropriated $4,000 sterling, and
appointed an agent, Captain Bayles, who has
recently been in the southern part of this coun
try, Tor the purpose of gaining all the necessa
ny information respecting the method pursued
in the production of the article in the southern
states ofNorth America. The cotton gin be.
ing an American invention, and its improve
ments to the present time having been confined
to America, the English hitherto have not been
able to make gins successfully, or have no,
been able to introduce them into India, or adopt
the plan Of tillage which has, by the skill Of
the Americans, been carried to so high degree
of perfection.
In the fulilment Of his mission, Captain B.
arrived 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 and
overseers TO proceed to Surat, in India, at q
salary of from 10 TO $1,000 per annum, and ar
tcled them TO remain for a period Of five
years. He also purchased several the latest
and best improved cotton gins, and procured
models ofgin houses, and propeling machine
ry, cotton,prcsses, &c. together with lot Of the
best ploughs and hoes for cultivating cotton.
| tits also desire of the Board of Directors
OF the East India Company, to start the man
ulacture 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., simultaneously, with
the attempt to augment and extend the culliva-
ton of cotton in India. For this purpose q
gentleman who has made important improve
ments in the cotton gins, and has devoted a
number of years past to this branch of manu-
facture at the south and its introduction among
the planters, has been engaged 10 go out to
England to superintend 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 pounds Of cotton in the seed state, to
try the gins with, and let the workmen see the
n,oduS operandi 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 ndepend-
ent Of supplying India, other cotton markets
in the world would afford excellent places for
the sale of such machines. In the u. States
it requires almost one gin TO every $50 bales
cotton. A gin is worth, on the average, al
least $500. To gin crop therefore Of l,800,-
900 bales would requires 1900 gins, which at
$500 each, would amount to So, 1000. About
20 p or cent. go out Of use annually by wear
and tear-so that to sin the present crop of
the United States would require an annual sup
ply OF about $4,000 worth Of gins. In add.