The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-12
..of this large CONSUMPTION 2, 500 GOO bales were

"Of this large consumption 2, SOC, 900 bales were
| furnished by the Southern States, and il is sup
| ports, through the profits of its fabrication, not
| less than 4,U0U,OOO whites, and the cloth pro-
duced furnishes comfortable clothing 10 mi lions
more, who otherwise would suffer from wnnt Of
| it. If, by any CONFUSION, the supply of raw ma
terials should be cut oil, how wide spread would
be the resulting restitution and ruin all natons2
The Northern States have rapidly increased OF
late wears in their ability to worn up the cotton
Thus in 1912 the growth was l,653,574 bales,
and the United States manufactures took 267 $50,
or Is per cent The average growth Of the past two
years has been 500 900 bales, and 502 400 bales
or 20 per cent, has been wrought up in the United
States. Thus the national industry of the North
is developing itself with rapidly that in few
years will cause it to require the whole of the
Southern production, to the exclusion Of European
rivals The progress in this direction is precisely
the in the ratio of the increase of capital. ,Supe-
Irior wealth is all the advantage which England has
the Union, and she rs fast losing that adyan-
tage. The only way IN which she can check this
tendency, is by promoting sectional ealousies, in
the view to cause political dissolution of the
| Union. aH - aE.. +N na #
| "The South is now, with its institutions and
capabilities, possessed of that on which half the
manufacturing and commercial interests Of the
world depends. II is the source whence the only
means of employing and feeding at least 5,000, 900
whites can be drawn, and without which nearly
81 ,000, 900 900 of active capital ships and factor
| res would be valueless A country and Institutions
so important to the welfare of humanity at large,
are not to be triAed with This country forms
one half Of our glorious Union, on terms agreed
upon by those immortal men who separated from
England, because they would no longer suffer the
continuance of the African slave-rade; but in its
independent position the South holds the welfare
of other nations almost entirely in its keeping.
The capital and laboring abilities Of England
such afford the South outlet for its staple,
should ii exclude all other customers. The result
Of such a movement would be, to force other coun-
| tries to draw their goods from England only. On
the other hand, the manufacturing progress of the
North is such, that in few years she may absorb
the whole Of the Southern staple, and place her
self at the head of the manufacturing interest for
the supply of heworld. Tothe South, it is COM
paratively of small importance whether England
or the North obtains this mastery. Between the
North and England it IS a mortal duel, and yet in
| the crises of this struggle, there to be found
| persons at the North so destitute of all moral
and political acuteness, to attack, in vio
| lation Of the sacred pledge of the Constitution,
those institutions which it guarantees, and which
| are so necessary to the interests of humanity.
| "The continued harmony Of the United States,
permitting the industry of each section to furnish
materials for the enterprise of the others, the
| ciprocity of benefits, and uninterrupted inter-
i change of mutual productions, facilitated by con-
tinualy increasing means of intercourse and ac-
cumulation of capital, are laying the foundation
only affords no example, but the magnitude OF
which the widest dreams of the most imaginative
of the worlds statesmen has failed to conceive.
In this undisurbed progress, the condition Of the
black race is being elevated on the swelling tide Of
white progress. Inasmuch as that the first slaves
imported were, under their new masters, vastly
superior in condition to the nude cannbals by
whom they were sold, only because avarlce
triumphed over appetite, so is the condition ofthe
slave Of the present day far above that of his pro-
gentor few generations back. The black race,
in its servitude to the whites, has undergone
improvement which the same race, in its state of
African freedom, has failed to manifest. By
+ whatever degree, physically and morally, the
blacks of the United States are superior to the
nude cannibas of Africa, are they indebted to the
white for its active, though not disnerested,
agency. That process of Improvement has not
ceased, but is ever progressive in the train Of
white advancement The huge lumber-car has
vitality of itself, but attached to the resistless loco
motive, moves forward with vgor not its own
To cast off that race in independence on its own
resources, is singular manifestation of desire for
its progress. "'