The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-03-08
The Cotton Crop or America ana India
The Dependence Of England.


II Is We fear only too probable that the crop Of Anne
rican cotton will this year be enough increase
the pfic: o. that most Necessary INGREDIENT in the
though the actual deficiency possibly be less than
IL feared yet the r-eults will doubtless supply suf
been often described involved In our present sys
tenn Of action Almost all that IL said respecting the
stsd for 40 Ts,t .rs ,ss n.rs.s concs ~ IN: .
scarcely possible TO overstate them. Nearly much
depends upon the cotton crop ~ the potato crop;
and failure In the former admits besides, OF
responding compensation from private charity pub
lie benevolence Yet speaking generally, IL may be
land helples,y dependent on two provinces Of
foreign State IL IL this peculiar Limitation Of the
produce which makes the anomalous and full
OF peril Were cotton lees article OF the very nrst
pecessity to English commerce we're II grown, like
corn, In every country Of the globe the arguments
which have been taken TO regulate other imports would
be equally applicable here But the differences 10 this,
that while our mportstions q could be effected
only BY q coincidence Of many and such sxtraord-
Of probability our importatous Of cotton are liable a.
shown to be Influenced by Of the very
eonmcnest nkeiihcod A change Of policy, false i'm
vhst may occur In any ana must needs occur
In some abort CROP sech sed any Of these causes
population and deeply affect the financial prosperity Of
the entire empire.
The Win appear stnl more extraordinary whom
~ remembered what wholly artificial conditions
Its existence depends n cotton like spices could be
only In certain limited districts OF certain st
and psspc. A the facts stsad however the present.
limitation Of the produce not only entirely scciden-
tai but s due TO meme but ourselves There vas time
when India did produce cotton; and there vas time
very recently when Georgia and Carolina did not
Men still living recolsct the nrst i'm porston Of
American cotton into the Liverpool market and the
sItsnt OF the present trade the OF scarcey moro
tban one generation Cotton IL indieeno nor ne
cuiiar to the Georgian uplands Iscutvaton vac In
troducsd IN consequences Of demanda and per-
fecsd ~ the unrvaed enterprise end energy Of Ame
rican planters working under such stimulus Gradu-
Any this cotton hss obtained almost the monopoly Of
able In such result due a. n s 20 the natural opers-
uons 81 trade II IL not for the huge disprop orton
between our evn particular demands end this solitary
souiee OF supply Continentsi coustries take little
cotton the United States themselves take quantity
somevhat larger, and which appears likely 10 be In
creased; the great bulk TO Liverpool But for
All this aggregate coDsumpttou, there stiu remains
sccay nothing but the crop Of these two provinces
sons ruinously deficient and, at ell umss subject OF
anxious speculation and unavoidable misgivipG.
The plain and obvious remedy for such evils 10 to
cotton for ourselves I'm quarter OF other Of
our I'm mense dominiops, undertaking which could
be without any resort 60 forced labor
unnatural cultivation There ere several 0tted
culsed to fsAI eli the requisite conditions ss India
This the reader ofthese columne must be well
is no subject 10 has repeatedly occupied the ct
eptop Of Parliament, Of the Indian Of the
&c m mercisl societies Of Manchester end Liverpool
Bcustsee have been offered upernepdepts taken out
experiments tried, and reports made almost without
end Jet stiil there no cotton crop forthcoming from
Irdis. No doubt whatever has been thrown upon tn.
capacity Of the soil 60 produce In times the re-
quired frutt on the contrary. specimens 81 India.
grown cotton have been openly exhibited at Man
chester and have been pronounced fully equal 20 tn.
beet descriptops Of American What not ret been
tbtsinsbe " ceptous and continuous supply spd Of
This failure the chief csuses are 10 be sought in the re-