The Arkansas banner., 1849-03-13
Interesting to cotton 1,lau,er..

an increSSed demand for breadstHts which s nccos
 'TIiy attended with increased prices takes place ia foreign countries, there is a pr0portonats racilne in the price of coftoa--men must eat--tiat is a primary necessity which cannot be dispensed with and when they driven to purcbaAe hresdstu.fs at high price, they are forced into q cartailmeei ef expenditure ia providing themselves with the material for eotiae which Is eiso necessity under the influence of organized and civilized society but A necessity neither pressing nor ureent One may well be c0utent 10 wear petched coat ia pre- ference 10 going sapperiess to bed. 1t Is obvious there is but One rentedy for the cotton panter ia the contingency mentioned, and that is 10 multiply as fur possible the markets for his cotton To depend upon tine market of single country, C reai Britain, for example, is 10 iucar tAe oeftanty of periodical prosIratioa of the price. The laiure af single crop of corn in that country would spread ruin over the cotton-growibg region. But with other markets io supply, although undoubtedly affected by the loss of any single market Vet the planters profits would continue he re,nunerating Hence inc great importance to him of a free inter. change with all the nations Of the earth which, in view of the immensiiy of the production invites tue constant and increasing efforts oi tine government to attaia.s
 In this view of the subjeot. the home market k undoubtedly the greatest importance. Considering the extent of our country, it's shores now washed by the waters of Two oceaHs-the rapid increase Of its population. population which duplicates ia a series of twenty three years ana all the wants ef retired and enlightened society in still greater ratio-asoHg with It's almost prcternaturai develop msRt Of power and strength, the day may be con sidered as near al hand, if il ha not part come, when the plough and spindle must and will be in the closest proximity, aud when the AnIereaa market will Ike of vastly greater impor ortance to the cotton planter than that much of the world beside. I his state of things may be unduly hastcneu or delayed by the action of the federal government, but II will finally come-and come il would have done, somewhat later possibly; but more quietly md peacesby. if you or had never heard of tariff for protection. Nstural causes would inevitably have produced it, and mau the creature of self interest, would be the voluntary and ready nstru ment to achieve the result
 The cotton planter has seen, or faneied that he saw, in the early stages Of our population, iniury inflicted him in the effort, by high duties. to restrict the field of the fsbricders order induce a portion oi oui own people to give up the and the plough, the ship and the seq, for the tSoNa and spindle. He wanted the markets of the old world fully opened for his cotton, and the ports of this country equally wGe open for the introduction oi foreign fabrics, thereby increasing the demand for c rsw material through the greater ability 10 purchase No; Una: he was opposed to the develop mcut of the arts in America, but that he desired to that development the result of natural and not artificial causes. The time for that development he knew would come wsth tlIe increase of our pop ulation, but he wished in the interim enjoy the advantages ef existing systems which had grow up in the midst of the overgrown population of Europe. | The fact that under the tariff act of SIS new manu factories, and in considerable numbers, are rising up ai over the country, is proof that the day has already dawDed in which the cotton planter may look for an immensely valuable market at his own doors--when the now 20 QUO GOO shortly Go be I0oc0 09 to be clothed out of the products of his fields, through their own industry, and that too without seriously abridging the supplies which he can and must furnish to the foreign fabrcator. The United States may justly be regarded as having virtual monopoly ol the cotton plant. Neither Egyptian, Braziian East India cotton can. if the competition he left free, compete with that riised upon our soil. This is seen by reference te our prices The day which has begun lo dawn on the plantation States will go increasing until the hoiae price shall regulate the foreign pricc-when the Eug.ishman sall look moFc to the American price current than those of his own country. Now, you know, it Is different. London, Liverpool and Manchester, regulate the tiriees at Boston, Charles ton, and New Orleans. When thiS shall have changed, the cotton-grower will want no better barometer 10 indicate his prosperity.
 Aifsctedhe will be undoubtedly then hy short crops m EHrot Q, but the great home demand will stil! eoatihue uninflueaced to any considerable de- gree by the price o breadstutis aud his remunefa- tioa for his labor will be comparatively certain The hotne demand for the material has astenishingly
 increased In the last few years, and wall be most rapidiy augmented for the time Domestics are ai- ready constituting an important item in list of cAIoftrB anu aIC tOunu or less quantities every part of the globe. We lose ourselves in an at
 tempt to calculate the progIess of American indus try, skill, and capital The philosopher in his closet may deduct the existence of a new planet and To- cate it Tn the heayens-and the political economist may deduce irotn the past the probable advance of society n other parts Gt the globe but our progress deiics calculation. fhe figures for to-day merely shadow forth the results of to-inonow. The boy Is told of bowling WilieIneSses inhabited only by wild beasts, oG men more savage than they. Manhood dawns upon him, and the wlids have become high cultivated coantTy, abouIlcng in the ants ot civilization and refinement.
 The day Is on us even now, when our. twenty millions Of people clothed by American oouts; aad the day will arrive sooaer than he calculate when those iooms will cothe millions of other couIi.
 tries. These and must be tue natural results of our progress. No lmpulse lrom government Is necessary to produce Il. 1t k fortunate that u so and that cotton manufactures are placed on footing longer to be influenced by the movements dt Washington. This great interest Is taken iway from the politicians, who have for years used i .is d football with which to play the game Of politics NatuIrs dccrees are not tJ be Subycftcd or hierrd
 n their course by the efforts of men. She wills and what she wills Is done. Export duyies to be laid in pursuance of the amendment you suggest to the constitution, mIg III some respects be Trout
 tive ot good, but they woald not be uhaccoin panied by evil One oi the evils which suggests itself Is tha, the duty would upeIaie bounty o4. the pIoducer uf eotloa m ullicr couunies. The true policy of our government should be to preserve 4S far possible the monopoly ol tue plant in hais To hul conio over tic tssues oi peace and wa tiut witii,ut itrsuHg the InquIiy, Il Is only sary io say tiIat such constitutional amendment is imprsciicable, all efforts to amend ihc consii- tuiinn. The poiitirans will break ii, bal will uevct ainruA it. ou and then a,iiee at our eoncIu sai,, by different ways, but sliit We do toticlgde thai American laot,s and spiniles wil nul omly supply ihc millions oi Atnctiea but, at distant iltiie tiia nIiiivHs of Inc wosh
 With sentiments of high respect am, dear si,, yours, JOHN TYLER.
 Ilatl'lton smith, Esq, Louisville, Ay.
 Hemp aad Mu>ketOeS.
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