Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-05-05


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supply although uuIosEea.g ...e# ., .. -,a
e. ans single market yst tas planters H..,.
would c0yls.ia % he fsualeUa.r- Ier-. Ito
great tn "a. see oIa i.ce in'el.Har-. v#. ..
the natiaas 90 the earth. wllr-. lu Era g. He
immensely q. To- p-sIlc.al l....s. t.ra5..I.
ana increasing e'.lris q tie government b -.
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In this view Of the subject. The home marse,
= undoubtedly niiha greatest iHtH aHaHc-. Cons
sldering The extent ol our c0g1tfy g shores
now washed by the waters Of tVa oc.sas-gte
rapid increase Of It's population, population
which duplicates in a series Of tWelyf.fes
years and all the wants eta refined and ta.l-a.-
ened society in still greater Fati9--ea- With
It's aim 81 pretenatural Development OF power
and strength, the day may be considered near 90
hand, i i has not in part come, when DE plough
aud spindle mus, and will be ia the closest pro1-
unity, and when The American market will De Of
vastly greater Importance 20 he cotton planter
than that ofthe world beside. This stale q. things
may be unduly FASTENED og DELAYED blythe action
oil the Federal Government, Dat b will finally
come-and come ii would have done, somewhat
later possibly, bot more quietly aud peaceab.y
Hyou and had never heafd O., taFi.i i1r protsc.
ton. Natural causes wold inevitably have pro-
duced it. and man, the creature Of selEinieres
would be the voluntary and ready instrument 10
achieve the result.
1 he cotton planter has seen or ancied that
ne saw in the early stages Of cur population, an
INJURY inflicted on him ia th, effort D. high ia.
ties to restrict tse fehl o. 4le iabicaar ia order
TO induce portion { our own people 20 give up
the axe and the plough the ship and ,ho sea, iOg
the loom and the spindle. He wanted the mar.
kets OF the old world fully opened E,r his cotton,
aud the ports OF this country eq1allyus wide open
Tor the introduction OF foreign fabrics, thereby
increasing the demand for the raw material
through the greater ability 70 purchase Not
that he was opposed to the developments ol the
arts in America, bat that hc desires 10 See the
Development tie result Of natural aad not artA. .
eial causes. The time for that development be
knew would come with the increase Of our popl.
ialion, buI wished in the interim 70 ENJOY tie adj
yantages Of existing systems which had grown
up in the midst OF the oyelgrown population of
Europe. The fact that undert the ae, Of 1916
new manufactures, and in considerable numbers
arising up all over tho country, is proof that the .
day has ALREADY dawned IN which the cotton plan .
ter may look or sn immensely valuable market .
At his own door--when the now twenty million /
aud shortly to be forty million, are 10 be clothed .
Oul Of The product Of his fields, through the pro,
dact OF their own industry and thai, too, without
seriously abridgng the supply which he can and
must iurnisho the ioriegn abricator The United
States may Justly be regarded as having mo-
nopoly of the cotton plant. Neither Egyptian,
brazilian or East India cotton can, If he CONNIE
tition be lell free, compete with that raised upon
our soil. rhis is seon by reference 10 ourprice
current The day which has begun to dawn
on thenlamation States will 20 on increasing un .
I'll the home price shall regulate the iaroipn
prce--when tho Englshman shall look more
TO the American prices current than those of his .
own country. Now you know, il Is different.
London, Liverpool and Manchester regulate the
prices at Boston, Charleston and New Orleans.
When this shall have changed. the cotton grow.
er viii want no better barometer to indicate his
prosperity.
Affected he win be undoubtedly even then by
short crops in Europe, bat the great homo de
mand will still continue uumauenced to any con-
siderable degree by the price ofbreadsluis. and
his remuneration toFa his labor win be compare.
lively certain The home demand for the raw
materials has increased aslonishnpyin the last
few years, 81 will be mosl Fapidly augmented for
the time. Domestics are already constituting an
ilnponantitcm in our lis oteNpors IS are found in
greateror less quantities ineyeryrar ofthe globe.
We lose ourselves ia an attempt to cacuiatc the
progress Of American induslryskill and capital.
The philosopher in his closet may dedu,e the OK,
lstAnce Of new planet, and locate it in die Iloa.
fen--and the political economist may deluce
from the Nast the probable advance Of society ia
other parts olihe globe but our progress deaes
calculation. The figures for o.day merely shad.
ow forth the result % to.morrow. The boy Is
told Of bowling wldemesacs inhabited only by
wild beasts, or men more savage thn they.
Manhood dawns upon him and lbc same wiIds
have become highly cultivated country, aboun.
ding IN the arts Of civilization and refinement
The day is on rs even noW,when cur twenty mil.
lion Of people arc clothed by American looms
4 the day wilauye sooner than he can calculate
when those looms will cl0.Ac millions q oher
countries. These are and must BE-. the natural
result Of our progress, No new impulse Rom
government is necessary to produce it. It il
fortunate that il Is SO, and that ON cotton manu-
factories are placed on footing no longer to be
influenced by the movements al Washington.
Thisagrcat interest Is taken away from The poIi
,icIaas, who have for years used 1t Ms a football,
with which 70 play the game o. politics. Na.
lures DEGREES are not to be slIyeltpj ur HINDER.
ed in their course by tho efforts Of men, She
wills, and what she wills is done. Export duties
70 be laid IN pursuance Of the anne admeut YOU
suggest to the Constitution, might IN some re-.
sDprts he nroductiva "a mad Int fhpy ,p.t,IA unt