The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-01-14


half that sum; and that twice that amount
has been expended in the suppression oil
the slave trade: making, together, two hum
dred and fifty millions Of dollars as the cost
Of the experiment. Instead Ofrealizing her
hope, the result has been a sad dsappoinl.
ment Her tropical products have fallen
OIL to vast amount. lnslead of supplying
her own wants and those Of nearly all Eu-
rope with them, as formerly, she has now,
in some of the most important articles,
scarcely enough TO supply her own. What
lis worse, her own colonies are actually
consuming sugar produced by slave labor,
brought direct to England, or refined in
bond, and exported and sold 10 her colo
MES as cheap or cheaper than they can be
produced there; while the slave trade, in.
stead OF diminishing, has been in fact car-
rled on TO greater extent than ever So
disastrous has been the result that her fixed
capital vested in tropical possessions, esti-
mated at the value OF nearly five hundred
millions of dollars, is said to stand on the
brink of ruin.
But this is not the worst. While this
costly scheme has had such ruidous effects
on the tropical productions of Great Brit
ain, It has given a powerful stimulus, fol-
lowed by corresponding increase Of pro.
duct, to those countries which have had the
good sense to shun her example. There
has been vested, it is estimated by them,
in the production Of tropical products, since
1908, in fixed capital, nearly A ,O00,000,O00
wholly dependent on slave labor. In the
same period, the value Of their products has
been estimated to have risen from about
ST., 100000 annually, 10 nearly $780,
100000; while the whole Of the fixed cap
ital Of Great Britain, vested ia cultivaliDg
tropical products, both in the East and
West Indies, is estimated at only about
$3.50, 100000; and the value Of the pro.
ducts annually at about S50,000,00O To
present still more striking view Of three
articles of tropical products, (sugar, coffee,
and cotton,) the British possessions, inclu.
ding the West and East Indies and Mauri-
thus, produced, ia l842, OF sugar only 81
993,774 pounds; while Cuba, Brazil and
the United States, excluding other countries
having tropical productions, produced g..
COG, 900 pounds; of coffee, the British pos>
sessions produced only q, 393, 0O3, while
Cuba and Brazil produced 20I SOC, 125
pounds; and OF cotton, the British posses
sions, including shipments to China, only
l37, 443,446 pounds; while the United
States alone produced 700, 479 ,275 pounds
Tho above facts and estimates have all
been drawn from a British periodical Of
high standing and authority, and are be
lieved to be entitled TO credit.
This vast increase Of the capital and
production on the part of those nations who
have continued their former policy towards
the negro race, compared with that Of Great
Britain, indicates corresponding relative
increase of the means of commerce, navi
CATION, manufactures, wealth, and power.
1t is no longer a question Of doubt, that the
great source Of The wealth, prosperity, and
power Of the more civilized nations of the
zone, Especially Europe, where
The arts have made the greatest adVance,)
depends, in great degree, on The exchange
Of their products with those Of the tropical
regions. SO great has been the advance
made in the arts, both chemical and me-
within the few last generations,
hat all the old civilized nations caR, with
put a small part Of their labor and capital,
lupply their respective wants: which tends
% limit within narrow bounds the amount
IF the commerce between them, and forces
hem all to seek for markets in the tropical
regions, aud the more newly settled pOr
ions of the globe. Those who can best
succeed In commanding those markets,
rave the best prospect Of OulsIriPPing the
,ihers in the career Of commerce, naViga>
ion, manufactures, wealth and power. Il
This iS seen and felt by British states
men and has opened their eyes 10 the errors
which they have committed. The question
With them now is, how shall il be counters
lctedi What has been done cannot be
lndOne. The question is, by what means
an Greal Britain regain and keep a supe-
iorily 10 tropical cultivation, commerce and |
nfuencei Or, shall that be abandoned,
ind other nations be suffered 10 acquire the
even 10 The extent Of supplying
British markets. 10 the destruction OF The
,apilal already vested in their PrOdueiiona
These are The questions which now pro-
oundly occupy the a1ienliOn Of her states
men, snd have The greatest influence over
Der councils.
Ia order 10 regain her superiority, she
not only seeks 10 revive and increase her |
oWn capacity 10 produce tropical prOduc-