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duced only 27 ,393, ,003, while Cuba and Bra gil produced POI, ,595, l25 pounds and of cotton, the British possessions, including shipments to China, only l37,443,416 lbs, while the United States alone produced 790,- 479,275 pounds.
 The above facts and estimates have all been drawn from British periodical of high stan- ding and authorlty,# and are believed to be entitled to credit. This vast increase of cap- ltal and production on ihe part of those na- tlOns who have continued their former pol icy towards the negro race, compared with that of Great Britain, indicates a correspond ing relative increase of the means of com merce, navigation, manufactures, wealth, and power. lt IS no longer question of doubt that the great source of the wealth, prosper lty and power of the more civilized nations oi the temperate zone, especially Europe, where the arts have made the greatest ad- vance, depends in a great degree on the ex- change of their products with those of the tropical regions. So great has been the ad- vance made Tn the arts, both chemical and mechanical, within the few last generations, that all the old civilized nations can, with but small part of their labor and capital, supply their respective wants, which tend to limit within narrow bounds the amount of the commerce between them, and forces them all 10 seek for markets ill the tropical regions and the more newly settled portions of the globe Those who can best succeed in com handing those markets, have the best pres- pect ot outstripping the others ill the ca reer of commerce, navigation, manufactures, wealth, and power.
 This IS seen and felt by British statesmen, and has opened their eyes to the errors which they have committed. The question now with them is, how shall it be counteracted? i? What has been done cannot be undone.- The question Is, by what means can Great Britain regain and keep superiority in trop- lcal cultivation, commerce and influence ?- Or shall that be abandoned, and other na- tons be suffered to acquire the supremacy, even to the extent of supplying British mar kets, to the destruction of the capital already vested ill their production? These are the questions which now profoundly occupy the attention of her statesmen, and have the greatest influence over her councils
 In order to regain her superiority, she not only seeks to revive and increase her own capacity to produce tropical productions, but to diminish and destroy the capacity of those who have so far outstripped her in conse- quence of her error. In pursuit of the for mer, she has cast her eyes to her East India possessions, to Central and Eastern Africa, with the view of establishing colonies there, and even to restore, substantially, the slave trade itself, under the spacious name of trans porting free laborers from Africa to her West India possessions, ill order, if possible, to compete successfully with those who have refused to follow her suicidal policy But hopes of recovering her last superiority Her main reliance Is on the other alternative to cripple or destroy the productions of her successful rivals. There is but one way by which 1t can be done, and that is, by abol- ishng African slavery throughout this conti- nent; and that she openly avows to be the constant object of her policy and exertions. It matters not how or for what motive 1t may be done, whether it be by diplomacy, inAu- ence, or iorce-by secret or open means and whether the motive be humane or sell
 
 motive, the thing itself, should 1t be accom- plished, would put down all rivalry, and give her the undisputed supremacy in supplying her own wants and those of the rest of the world, and thereby more than fully retrieve what she has lost by her errors. It would give her the monopoly of tropical produc- dons, which shall next proceed to show
 What would be the consequence, if this object of her unceasing solicitude and exer- tons should be effected by the abolition of negro slavery throug ghout this continent, some idea may be formed from the immense dimi- hutton of productions, as has been shown, which has followed abolition in her West India possessions. But, as great as that has been, 1t is nothing compared to what would be the effect, if she should succeed in abol- ishing slavery in the United States, Cuba, Brazil, and throughout this continent. The experiment ln her own colonies was made under the most favorable circumstances. It was brought about gradually and peaceably, by the steady and firm operation of the parent country, armed with complete power to pre- vent or crush at once all insurrectonarv movements on the part of the negroes, and able and disposed to maintain to the full the political and social ascendancy of their former slaves. It IS not at all wonderful that the change of the relations of master and slave took place under such circumstances without violence and bloodshed, and that order and peace should have been since preserved.- Very different would be the result of aboli- ton, should it be effected by her influence and exertions, in the possessions of other countries on this continent, and especially in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil, the great cultivatofs of the principal tropical produc- tlons of America. To form correct concep- ton of what would be the result with them, we must look not to Jamaica, but to St. Do- mingo for an example, The change would be followed by unforgiving hate between the two races, and end in a bloody and deadly struggle between them for the superiority- One or the other would have to be subju- gated, extirPated, or expelled, and desolation wOull oyprvr halp, tbair (,