Mississippi advertiser. [volume] (Aberdeen) 1842-1848, 1845-02-15
(From the N. Y. EOening Post.)
PROSPECT OF THE COTTON PLANTERS,

In the southwestern region of our country,
aro constantly bringing new lands under cultivation.
and covering diem with plantations of cotton. he
earth has no where a soil Or climate more congo
NAL to the growth of the cotton pan, and no where
does il yield more abundant harvests. The pro-
duct of Cur cotton plantations proceeds, from year
to yru,, in steady and a regular increase, each
year bringing into market about hundred thousand
bales than its predecessor.
Is it Just in the legislators Of our republic to
starve cotton planter for the sake of panpering
the owner OF a cotton mill! Yet this is what we
are doing. The laws which shut ont from our
ports the cheap cotton fabrics of other nations,
tend to discourage the consumption ot cotton gem
orally, narrow the market Of the planters and bring
,hem into fatal competition with each otllet,-
The present tariff gives the owners of our cotton
mills princely revenue--a profit OF ten, twenty
and thirty per cent. upon their capital. All this is
paid, in some form or other, by the cotton crop OF
the country; it is tax on the use and growth OF
the short and long staples. The consumer pays it
in the first instance but the high prices lessen his
means of purchasing and he must purchase less
he must spare, he must economist he must ware his
garments longer before they 60 to the paper mill,
he must devise substitutes. The consequence is,
that the consumption OF cotton fabric Is proportion
ably less, and the planter finds his bales no longer
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The following taken from late Savannah paper
will show the annual increase in the cultivation o.
cotton in the United States.
The crop now coming into market it is expCc'
ted will show even more than the same rate of in
crca If the trade in cotton fabrics were burden
ed only by moderate duty, VIC might expect tina
tho cotton crop Of the year would be iree phrchas
ed in the European market to be manufactured
and exported. But as matters now stand, Their,
can be no such expectation. A Liverpool purer o
the latest dat, after remarking that tho cotton
market is in very depressed state, and after giving
a statement Of the quantity imported into Grea
Britain compared with the quantity taken for con
sumption, says:
alt i, thus shown. that the stock is at prescn
10000 bags more than last year, and til anew crol
is arriving freely, 50 that no great diminuton il
the stock can tnke place, and consequently an i'm
proyement in prices may be considered out OF tn
question:
d Looking at the N. o. Prices Current. Of Dcce0l
Der 9Th, we see that the whole stock of Cotton o
hand at the different ports of the United States
g but eighteen thousand bales less than it was las
, year at the same date, notwithstanding that III
e expectation Of cotton hts been much more actiy
j this year.
t 1t is melancholy to see ,h, conflict between TIA
legislature of a country and the enterprise of it
b citizens. The people go on to produce, md Con
$ gross 90 on to obsiruct the sale of the commodt
b produced. 1.-THE present state of things continue.
how long will it bs before the cultivation of cotro
, will cease in the Carolinas and all along the Altar
/ tic coastl How long before the sandy and com
paatlvely unfruilful region which at first supple
the Conon crop, will no longer repay the expense
d of its culture when it must pass TO the richer an
deeper sviIs Of the southwest, and the planters
y the Atlantic coast must consider, not without som
y cause for embarrassment what they must subs
tute in its place.