The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-25

ries may amount To a million and a hall, and their
wages cannot fall short Of twenty-five millions stef-
ling. Toward the earning OF their wages, anu .ue
support Of these 100000 human beings, the oni
ted States furnish threefourths of the raw material
some say four-ffths-and the rest of the globe te
remaining quarter or fifth. Now suppose a war
were to break out how would our three-fourths OF
four-fflhs be supplied by other coiton-growng eous-
triesi In The five years from 1861 to loal-4~,
India did not export more than ooo mhi.onS u
hounds, which does not make much more Than u
600 600 bales in all, or about 100000 bales per an.
mum. or this amount, about half was exported
to China, (Which agrees perfectly as regards
round numbers, with the above statement Of
British mports.) In 1885, India only export
ed $4,000 bales; last year the exports to Eng
land exceeded 100000 bales but this amount
is scarcely in proportion to the increased manufac-
lures independent of its inferior quality) Al the
present rate of consumption, this would not suffice
for eight weeks. Allowing the whole production Of
India to be half million bags, and the rest of the
world at the outside, $50 900 bales, then, the whole
cotton production of the world exclusive of the Uni
ted States, would but just suffice to supply half the
English consumption. What would, in this case,
become of the cotton industry of France, the Zoll-
Verein and Russia And have not all these coun,
tries direct interest to preserve the peace Would
not a long maritime war with the United States de-
stroy the cotton industry of Europe, diminish the
amount Of wages by something like forty millions
sterling, and, by the general misery 1t would create
lead TO the most serious revolutions, not only in
trade, hut also in politics In fine, would not such
war give the American manufacturer monopoly
and the migration OF capital and labor to the
United States, Let Mr.. Guizot think Of that, when
he pirates again Of the American equilibrium of
power.
would vet mention another fact before drop the
subject Of England. | have alluded, in my last to
the returning good sense Of at least valuable por
ton of the English press, among which the ministe-
a ,,allx
TO be honorably named. Whether the double mo-
nopoly of cotton which we always have--and of
breadstufis, which Heaven seems to have given us
at this moment-is the cause of this change, know
not; nor does II matter, provided the consequences
are the same those which would flow from disin
terested feelings. But believe there is yet another
reason for it; and that is because portion Of the
British public--perhaps the most informed Of all
has actually come TO the conclusion that the eman-
cpaton of the slaves in the British West India ISL
ands has not answered its object, either re-
CARDS the planters or the negroes themselves, and
still less in regard to the government. Accordingly,
there is less laundering against slavery in the news
papers; while not few of the impartial judges OPEN
ly avow that the government suffered itself be led
into step, of which it has ever since repented
The abolition Of West India slavery would have
been very profitable and polite thing, if it had
been followed by the emancipation of the negroes
all over the world, and especially in the United
States. Il was for this purpose that the English
press and certain portion Of English statesmen
were so DANGEROUSLY charitable, until their very
camor caused an impartial inquiry into the motives
which suggested it. The continued assertion that
"Engand had no other but charitable motives" re-
minded the whole of Europe of the old French pro-
verb, qu s'ercuse s'accuse," until the system of ap.
premiership received its true valuation. Since that
period and the failure Of the qunupe treaty for the
right Of search, the pretensions of British phan-
thropists have become less offensive; and they are
II. Ill
failures of British enterprise. Formerly" say
the people on the continent, and with them large
portion of educated Englishmen, "African negroes
sent to the colonies; the parties openly avow-
ing that they were leading them into slavery. Now,
free laborers are imported into these colonies from
Africa who are no better off in any respect than the
slaves who preceded them. Naiuram erpeiias Jturcd
iamen usque REQUIRED. No means has as yet been
discovered to cultivate tropical countries without
slave labor; and because they must be cultivated
because too great capital would otherwise be lost
-laborers who worse than slaves, because there
is reciprocal relation between them and their mas
ters--no obligation on the part of the latter to
nurse them in sickness or old ageare imported from
Africa and India. More than TO- 001 mountain Coolies
have gone to Mauritius, thousands Of them have
lattery been sent to Jamaica and Trinidad: but
how many of them ever returned to their homes !?
The few that do, return with few hundred rupees,
are paraded through the press and in public re-
ports But it is nevertheless too plain, that not
tenth Of them have again seen their native
county. The cost of transportation of Bengal
Cody TO Mauritius is computed ut 81 IS. l0d with
out extras. This sum the planter must pay who
takes him into his service; for the poor Cody has
nothing at the time of his shipment, and precisely
as much on his arrival at Mauritius. Then he
wants clothing, and variety of things which the
planter furnishes him-of course, at his own price;
and which are charged to his debit, sufficient
being taken, as in certain houses of the great me-
la - t.
this manner the poor Cody remains slave until he
no longer is fit TO work, when his master, in all
probability, forgives his Indebtedness, and allows
him to enjoy his independence. What the mortal
ity among them may amount to, is not exactly
known; but, to judge from the enormous consump-
ton Of these new-angled slaves by the planters it
must be enormous. The demand for them is con-
santly increasing; for the 10000, or 10000 Coolies
now working on the island, require annually an
additional import Of 900 to preserve the status quo;
but even this number was found too small; and the
planters, consequently, have demanded that it should
be doubled And yet with this enormous expenditure
of human life, and the low cost of Coolies the plant
ers cannot get on, They want to change the Coolies
for "sound, healthy, strong negroes They say
openly that the Cody is not only more expensive to
keep, being accustomed to live better, but that he
don't work as well. On this account, they have
again ransacked the coast of Africa for bondmen for
life, without support in sickness or old age---the
country Of the Imaum Of Muscat, Zanzibar, and
Quiboa, where no slaves are found, but whose black
men and women will contract for their freedom ac-
cording TO the most approved forms of British COM
mon statute law But the cost of the sojourn on the
coast, the headmoney which is paid in the shape Of
export duty to the African chiefs, the freight or
passage TO the coloniesall is charged to the negro
and in the time laid out for him by the planter
who, on paying il, takes the negroes bond for the
amount, who, in turn, pays with his bones and sin
ews and is thus bound to his master for the whole
time he is able to work 1t is very fortunate for the
English phanthropic planters, that the price which
is thus paid for one Of these negro victims is still
less than that which formerly was paid for a slave;
so that philanthropy is doing profitable shaving
business But British philanthopists are not con-
tent with fetching negroes from the coast Of Africa
they also kdnap them from the neighboring West
India islands, where they may be slaves, making
regular bargains with them for free labor And Brit
ish philanthropy goes still further It never allows
the negro to pay the whole debt Of his emancipation
when he is old, he is dismissed though still in
the planters account, to select his own 'sdying
place" This 10 the manner in which Eng
fish philanthropy is spoken Of in the continent