The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-18

free tIade has given US free intercourse. o
all our Manufactured goods, the population
Of Russia consumes Z I'D per head; that o
the German league, s 3-4d.: Of the French
empire, about Is. Sd; Of the United States
IS. 3D.; OF Canada, 81. 15s.; and Of Austria
Liza, CT. los. per head per anuum
(Cheers.) As customers, therefore, for oul
produce and manufactures, every man, wo
man, and child in Australia was worth loul
Canadians, % Americans, 100 Frenchmen
and 200 Russians and Germans. Laugh.
ter and Cheers.) Another result Of the
growth Of sheep woods in Australia had
been the reduction OF the pnce of the ar
ticle to one-fourth of what it was fifty year:
ago. He anticipated precisely the same re.
suits from the cultivation Of cotton wool in
that colony. There would not only be an
increase Of the quantity imported, but re-
duction Of the price Of the best qualities
for it would be the superior qualities that
would chiefly be produced in Australia. -
DIR. Lang then proceeded, as he had pre-
viously done before the Chamber Of Com
merce, to describe the territory Of Cooks
land, in North Eastern Australia, or that
portion Of the colony which he looks upon
as the future cotton field Of Great Britain.
He described its position, between the 26th
and 30th parallels Of south latitude, its
physical appearances, its wonderful salu-
brity Of climate, its adsptability to Euro.
pean constitutions, and its admirable fitness
for the growth Of superior kind Of cotton,
worth, according to the present scale of
prices, about lid. or Is. per ID He con-
tended that the habitat of the cotton plant
was in the dry and warm regions Of the
temperate zone, such as Egypt and Cooks
land that there it fouished best, and not
in the humid and hot atmosphere Of India !;
and that the plant was not, as had been as
serted by journal in this city, native Of
the terra caliente Of Mexico. Having
shown that Cooksland was at every fifty
miles intersected by river, navigable for
steamboats, Of one hundred tons, for dis
lance inwards Of from thirty to eighty miles:
the average breadth of the territory, up to
the range Of mountains which skirted it,
and which run parallel with the sea, being
about sixty miles---he showed that although
about three times the amount of rain fell in
1S45 at Sydney, as compared with London,
the normal or regular state Of the atmos-
phere was so dry that the hygometer stood
at zero, indicating that there was no humidi-
ty in the atmosphere at all. All the pro-
ducts Of tropical climates might be grown
there, including cotton. On the banks Of
the rivers favorable to steam navigation,
there was boundless quantity Of land ready
for the plough; and an agricultural popula-
ton settled thereon would have advantages
of soil and climate, and means Of commu-
nication, such as were enjoyed in no other
country on the surface Of the globe, and
such as, he was confident, would enable
them to compete successfully, in the growth
OF cotton, either with the slave labor OF the
United States or the Brazils, or with the
free labor Of British India. There was no
mystery. as he knew from personal obser-
vshon, in the growth Of cotton. II negro
stolen from Africa could learn the whole
art in fortnight, surely an intelligent Eng
lish farmer could not be long in acquiring
it. 1t was an atrocious libel on Provi-
dence to say that free labor could not COM
pete with slave labor. As to the objection
grounded on the remote distance Of the colo
ny, that was mere bugbear. The distance
was found to be Of no account in competing
with the wool growers Of Spain and Ger.
many, and why should it be in competing
with the cotton-growers Of Alabama and
New Orleans! The facilities which the
colonlsts would have in shipping their pro
duce on the rivers along the coast would
far more than compensate for the addition
al cost Of freight. What was now wanted
was practical demonstration Of the truth
of what he had said as to the capabilities o
Cooksland, and when that demonstration
were given, there was ample means I'm thu
purchase-money Of the colonial lands, Sc
apart by government for the pmpose) fo
conveying thithel any conceivable number
of fitting lsborers, and ample lands for th'
location Of the whole of the redundant popu
lation Of Great Britain for the next hun
dred years. He was now attempting t
raise funds for the desired experiment. HI
proposed that corps OF one hundred agri
cultural families should be sent out before
the close Of the present year, under tn
superintendent of an experienced cottOT
planter from the United States. The cos
Of such an experiment would be, at least
$4,000; and in the present Commercial
crisis, he was limiting his efforts to rails
this sum by way Of loan, to bear interest
and he was happy to say that their worth,
chairman had commenced the subscription
with f1OO. The government had Offers
every facility that could be REASONABLE,
desired in the matter. (Cheers.) In con
clusion, DR.. Lang showed that this was tn
only practicable means Of extinguishin
slavery in America, and the slave trade il
Africa. On the motion Of the lecturer
seconded by the Rev. Mr.. Monroe, a vot
of thanks was passed TO the chairman, an
the proceedings Observation-Disclosures pa
per Of October, 1S47.
n We extract, from the recent able and eloquer
pamphlet of the wise and virtuous Albert Ga