The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-16

What is the effect upon the cotton-planterl
The average annual. consumption of cotton in
Ireland, whence SO large a proportion of the
emigrants come, is less than one pound per
head; that of the British islands, for the last
ten years, has been about four and one third
pounds to each individual; while in the United
States, the average of the whole country. in
GLIDING slaves, has been over thirteen pounds to
each person.
When we consider that the majority of the
emigrants are adults, and that they find en-
ployment in that portion Of the Union where
the climate requires the use of the largest
quantity of the materials of clothing, it will
appear 10 be very moderate estimate, if we
compute the difference between the cotton an
nualy used by each of them after arriving in
the United States and that which they were
able to purchase in their native land at ten
pounds. Those who arrived in the first six
months of lSf9 furnished market for az much
more in weight Of cotton goods than they would
have done had they remained on the other
side Of the ocean, suffices to supply all the
spindles which were that year running in the
States of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and
South Carolina, during twelve months. By the
returns made to the Secretary of the Treasury,
thirty thousand bales was the amount manu-
featured by the mills of those States. If the
importation of men is kept up, there will be
an increased demand for cotton, requiring the
annual addition, in the cotton-growing States,
of n number Of spIndles equal 10 all those they
now have in use, without diminishing the
market Of the Northern manufacturers in the
least, or impairing their demand for the raw
material Now that the planters have begun
to appreciate the advantages they derive from
the growth of the manufacture, in the cot
ton fields, can they be insenslble TO their in
teresi in the continuance of an influx of
population from abroad which is equivalent.
in extending the demand for their great staple,
TO the annual duplication of the spindes in the
South, and which costs them no outlay Of CAPT
tal2 Can they see decline of twenty per
cent. la the number Of emigrants with indiffer-
encel Can they fail to see that il is protection
to American labor which invites the laborers Of
Europe 10 our shores, and that it is its with
drawal which repels them2 Can they over
the obtaining absolute and perfect free trade
with the three hundred thousand people who
last year were added 10 the population Of the
Union from foreign States is equivalent to oh
tanning free trade with three millions who remain
separated from us by the ocean, aud consume
but one tenth as much cotton Is there any
method so rapid Of achieving free-trade, as by
hin x,-it hot a IN
which it is guaranteed by the Constitution.
aud where one who brings himself at his own
cost couutorbalanccs in his consumption ten
Of those that he leaves behind This proper
ton is much less than that which exists be
tween the people of the United States and the
rest of mankind an aggregate, in respect 10
their consumption of cotton. Yet there are
thousands who would enlarge expenditure by
the Government, ms well warranted, for the
sake Of establishing commercial relations with
the savagos Of a newly discovered island or
freshly explored coast, half million of whom
would buy less cloth and calico than the
twenty-eight thousand emigrants. whom we
have lost in the last six months, and would
not only have cost nothing, but have furnished
the richest freight for our shipping and for our
inland vehicles of transportation.
Since writing the above, we have received
the New Orleans Bee of the 9Th instant. con
tanning an abstruct of the annual report of the
German Society Of that city. The object of
that association is to assist immigrants from the
"father-land" in reaching their destination.
and to provide them with the means Of subsis-
tence, il destitute, and procure them employ
mcnt, il DESTROYS Of remaining in Louisiana.
From its records, it appears that during the
year ending on the LIST June last, l2,707 Ger