Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-26


PRosPEcT OF THE COTTON PLANTERS
In the southwestern region Of our coun
try, we are constantly bringing new land.
under cultivation, and covering them with
plantations Of cotton. The earth has N
where soil or climate moro congenia
to The growth Of the cotton pani, and nc
where does II Weld more abundant har-
vests. The product Of our cotton planta.
tons proceeds, from year to year, in q
steady and regular increase, each year
bringing into market about a HUNDRED
thousand bales moro than lis predecessor.
Is i. just in the Legislators of our repub-
lie TO starse u cotton planter for tho sake
of pampering the owner of cotton MILL
Yet, this is what we are doing. The
laws which shut out from our ports the
cheap cotton fabrics of other nations, tend
to discourage the consumption Of the cot.
ton generally, narrow the market Of the
planters, and bring them into fatal com.
petition with each other. Tho present
tariff gives the owners Of our cotton mills
princely reyenue--a profit of ten, TWEEN.
~ and thirty per cent. upon their capital.
All this is paid, in some form or other, by
the cotton crop Of the country; il is tax
on the use and growth Of the short and
long staples. Tho consumer pays il in
the first instance; but the high prices les.
sen his means of purchasing, and he must
purchase less; he must economist, ho must
wear his garments longer before they 90 TO
the paper mill, he must devise substitutes.
The consequence is, that the consumption
of cotton fabrics is proportionably loss,
and the planter finds bis bales no longer
bring their accustomed prices in the market.
The following, taken from laIe Sa.
vannall paper, will show the annual in.
crease in the cultivation Of cotton in the
United States;
"The crop now coming into muikel II is
expected viii show even more thaa the
same rate Of increase II the trade in
cotton fabrics were burdcued only by a
moderate duly, wo might expect that The
cotton crop Of the year would be freely
purchased in the European market, 10 be
and exported. But as mat
Iers now stand, there can be no such OK.
pectation. A Liverpool paper of the la
lost date, after remarking thattho cotton
market is in very depressed state, aud
after giving statement Of the quantity
imported into Great Britain, compared with
he quantity taken for consumption, says:
II is thus shown, that the stock is at
present 10000 bugs more than last year,
md the new crop isarriying freely, so that
no great diminuiion in the stock can take
place, and consequently an Improvement
n prices may be considered out OF the
question:
Looking at the N. 0. Price Current, oil
December 7lh, we sec that the whole stock
If cotton on hand, al the different ports Of
he United States, is but eighteen thous
md bales less lhanil was last year at the
anne date, notwithstanding that the expor.
alton Of cotton has been much more ac-
i've this year"
It is melancholy to see this conflict bo.
weon the Legislation of a country aud
he enterprise Of its citizens. The people
o on to produce, ind Congress 60 on u
bslruct the sale of the commodity pro-
uced. If the presenl state of things con
nues, how long will il be before the Gull
walton Of cotton will cease in the Carroll
as,and all along the Atlantic eoasIf How
'ng before the sandy and comparatively
niruitiul region which at first supplied
le cotton crop, will no longer repay the {
expenses Of its culture, when it must pass
} lhc richer and deeper soils Of The south.
'esi, and the planters Of the Atlantic J
cast must consider, not without some cause c
,r embarrassment, what they must substi. +
lie 10 its place [N. Y. Ereaing Post