Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-04
COTTON CULTIVATION IN INDIA.

The following letter from an intelligent English
man in Liverpool. was addressed TO the editors OIL
the CIne.nnati Gazette:
LIVERPOOL, Sept. ], 1912.
Dear Sir-When in the cotton section Of the
States | was induced TO think the India effort on
the part OF Government would prove failure.
based this calculation upon these data, that your
skill, mschnsry, fertility Of soil, eheapness Of con-
veyancr, and nearness TO US, would enable you TO
put down any composition:
Since my return home j have conveTsed win
friend from India, who resided for long time in
Charleston, and was familiar with Cotton growing,
and who is now engaged IN its cultivation IN the
Eisl-and from facts furnished to me by him, am
satisfied was wrong.
Tie experiment in India will succeed, and the
success will be both rapid and permanent. They
will no, only grow the cotton but they will manu-
iacture il, and supply US besides with large guam
titles Of the raw material.
What effect you may ask, will this have upon
the Staies7 The first effect will be. TO drive you
out Of the South American markets That has been
your ground You drove q way from it-under.
selling US without difficulty. But in India they
manufacture coarse fabric (which suits that mar
keO cheaper than you possibly can, and, conse
quen,ly, you will have in turn to yield. IL was a
fatal policy on your part which LEFT your manufac-
lures 10 stand against the world without home pro
lection. Tney can 60 great deal; more MAN
most people; but they can't compete with psuper
labour or the cheap work Of India, unless helped by
The second effect mus, be to change tho eul.iva-
t;on Of large number Of the States engaged in the
growth Of Cotton. Tho rich aluvial bottoms OF
the Mississippi may enable the planter there 10 Gull
ti,e,e Cotton at 4 or cents with proh'i suppose
a will. But in Georgia End the CarolInss, If an
any Judge of soil. il cannot DC done. You ought
60 know all about this. II REMEMBER right, the
average crop 10 the States would not be more than
600 lbs. TO the acre, liz will not Le over 800 lbs -
Eds) and If So cotton growing there will prove a
Iosinr business. What these States may turn their
hands 10, or in what way they may employ their
capital probably, can only conjecture; but fear,
brought up az they are, that they will want lament.
ably that thrift and energy Of the Yankee which
will 10 needed TO get through that trial safely.
The third effect, and that on which our legislators
end philanthrOpists like most TO dwell, - the ancl-
pated Influence on the negro race. II your govern
msnt had fostered yout manufactures, so as 10 give
them durability, and, MS you Americans say, put
them ahead, so that they might have consumed one
bnlf your cotton crop, you might have competed
with The world successfully, snd kept up The value
of the slives, and 60 continued slavery for ages.
But this as not DONE and the time is past for
doing IT, II then, India can manufacture the raw
material 50 as drive you cut OF the South Ameri-
cor market, and supply US with Cotton, 90 as 10
meet half our wants, you will have no mai kst which
will pay you rsmuneTaiing prices The conse-
aueuec will be- that the slave will be an actual eR
cense to his owners; he will eat him out Of hsmsi
and therefore, he must IN sell defen,e get rid Of him
Thus you see by your own legislation, and from
the single feet that cur government embraced the
oppouunty TO push forward the India enterprise
more is doing to bring about general emancipation
Of the blacks than all other causes put toRehef.-
This motive has tauerced many Of our FIRST mef
20 sustain il, as hove no doubt it has induced q
large tor,ion Of the Free Trade party IN the Wes
20 oppose your Tariff.
remain truly yours, X.