The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-10-31
From tae Concordia Intellgencer.
Cotton Trade with Germany,

From the Concorda Intelligencer.
Cotton Trade with Germany.
We are pleased to see Mr.. Corner, again
among US, urging upon the attention Of our
planters the importance Of cullivating di.
rect cotton trade with German markets.
Mr. Corner was for many years engaged in
a large shipping business at Hamburg, and
is we'll qualified to give all information that
NAV be desired in relation 10 the trade fGer.
many and the Northern States Of Europe.
He now represents one of tho oldest and
weaIlhiest houses in Hamburg, a house that
has wiihstood the commercial revolutions
of century unscathed, and whose wealth
and name have descended from father to
son through several generations. Through
his agency we hope to see our planters and
merchants brought into intimate relation
and profitable connections with the German
lpOrts.
The ZollVeTien confederacy is efeciing
rapid revolution in the interior trade of
Europe, and new field of commerce is
Iopening TO American enterprise, in which
English mercantile supremacy, maintained
through ages by her sagacity and her over
shadowing influence in European politics,
may be broken, and one important step TAX
len by Us TO relieve ourselves from the
thraldOm We are under TO the overgTown
Liverpool and London houses in the sale Of
our great staple.
Ever since cotton was an article Of CON-
merce, Germany and the interior Kingdoms
Of Europe have receive their supplies of
cotton and of cotton yarn, for their extensive
manufactures Of cloth and hosiery from
England. One great source Of the wealth
aud prosperity Of Manchester and Leeds has
been the spinning Of yarns ios the German
markets. One port alone, Hamburg, has
imported annually $40, 900, 900 worth of
English twist;-Sl2,OOO,OOO Of which. it is
estimated, has gone to the support of Brit.
ish lbOr, and the payment Of profits on Eng
u lish capital and the employment Of the Eng
lglish marine, while German labor was idle
and starving, and her capital and ships were
seeking foreign employment.
The chief purpose of the great CONNER.
I Icial League, which already represents i
population Of about So, GOO, O00, IS to feleasS
themselves from theiF dependence on Eng
Hand, and to secure the vast sums they have
heretofore paid 10 British labor and capital
to develOpe German resources and industry
Their first measure 10 accomplish this OBJ
Iiect the repeal of all duties on the impor
: tation OF raw cotton into their ports, and
:. the opening Of direct trade with the u. S
The effect Of this act has been in a few
wears 10 increase near three-foId the impor'
Itation Of the raw material, and to reduce the
importation of cotton manufactures ia the
, same period, one half Ii stimulaled interna
trade and increased home consumption nea
so per cent, and has created upwards o
1900 miles of railway, connecting Hamburg
and other sepOrts with the manufacturing
districts.
s. 1t was, doubtless partly this measure c
the ZollVerein diet that forced England Il
repeal her duties on raw cotton; il was 4
place her spinners in position TO compei
with the growing German manufacture
|, and to maintain their ancient markets o.
the continent. So successful has been tn
= policy proved that upwards of 100000 bent
= ners Of twist, requiring 100000 lbs. G
- cotton, were imported into the States Of tn
N lconfedeTacy last year. The Zollverei
4 Congress, now in session, viewing this mes
~ sure Of the English Parliament, as directe
!; against the new commercial policy Of th
- league, TO counteract It, propose as boun
- Ity on the importation Of raw cotton into the
4" 4" states, equivalent TO the duty recently r,
= pealed in England, and TO levy prohibits
~ duty on English yarns and manufacture
= goods, These measures, which will prob
bly, be carried into effect within afew mont
} will give death blow to the English traC
lg lin cotton manufactures 10 the Zollgere
States, and will consequently create va'
" increased demand for our raw stsple
their markets. Il is said that many Engli
IS, manufacturers, who have heretofore depe
ded on the German markets for the sale
= their goods, have, in anticipation of the
measures, transferred themselves, their n
ms chinery and woTkmen to Germany.
,ev The ZollVerein Confederacy is now I
no. third commercial power 10 Europe. It's e
da- ports and imports are more than @l25, OC
avs 900 each annually, exceeding those Of I
on United States By several millions. Il n
this resents a population larger than that
EtTa France; its inhabitants are weallhier a
the are larger consumers than tie French; u
all7 have not the coal beds uf England. but II
have water power, and labor IS so per ce
: less in Germany than II is in Great Britai
. Since the adoption of the protective P
icy by the ZollveTein diet, the export
~, cotton manufactures from the ZollVeE
States has increased upwards OfRO Per q
If the increasing having been chiefly TO