The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1851-08-01
EXTRACTS

EXTRACTS:
at is not intended in the present article to
consider whether Great Britain can succeed in
the attempt she is now making to- break up
thecultiyation of cotton in our SonthernStates,
and Transfers thessAnie to her East India posses
sions. Our eblectis merely to show some part
Of the machinery which she has long been
constructing for this purpose.
sour Southern States and the British posses
sions in India are riuGls in agriculture. The
soil of the one produces the same rich staple
commodities as that Of the other. New Or
leans and Calcutta are the two great rival cities
of the world, whose imports and exports are
similar. British India has superseded our
Southern States in the cultivation OF indigo,
and is already formidable riValinthe cutiFa-
ton of rice, sugar and tobacco. Ihesttempt
now making to supercede US N cotton is well
worthy of serious attention.
"The very country which grows the same
agricultural products as our Southern States
is the one our people appear toknow and care
the least about. They are not -unacquainted
with the grain growing countries OF Europe,
but their acquaintance is very limited indeed
with The history, resources, and political con-
dition of those immense territories in ASIA
under British power, which grow indigo, tobac-
co. rice, sugar, and cotton. The people of the
South have been dreaming that their old ene-
nv. Lord Cornwal.is, was dead, and that he
never would trouble them more. Though
dead, he livesin marble and on canvass in Great
Britain, and in the cotton, sugar, rice, and indi-
90 plantations throughout the British empire
in India. He was defeated, it is true, in the
South by Washington and Lafayette; but Mess
than ten years after thai defeat he succeeded in
eonquerng fifty millions of peoplein Asia, strip
ped Tippoo Sab of half his dominions, and
as if in vengeance for his defeat in America,
raised upin Asia powerful competition which
now threatens to rob tie South of her agri-
cultural wealth. - -
He must be very dull of comprehension, who
has paid any attention to the subject at all, not
to perceive that the design Of Great Britain IS
to break up, if she can, negro slavery every
where else, excepi in her own Islands. And
| there to maintain it to greater extent than il
has heretofore existed, by merely making an
| alteration in q few names,-caing slavery
apprenticeship, the odions' Kidndpper mis-
sionary, and the money to purchase slaves 9
| n1an1IguisSioa fund. =
"The few are too wise to expect immediate
abolition in the South, or in fact any abolition
at ALL But they hope by agitating the ques
ton in its most ofcasire forms to call disunioT
i between the North and South. Their agenl
are instructed to preach abolition or its alterna
tue disnnion, to make dbolitioaists and disitn
ioaists Synonymous TERMS.
- ~
aThe, London junta of Leadenhall stree
! know that they cannot monopolize the culture
/ of cotton and sugar, unless they can create
i strife, disunion, and civil war, between tn
i Northern and Southern States.
i In proof that they are trying to produce thi
4 strife. and have pren1editated plan 10 effect d
the report of the evidence taken before th
tl several committees of Lords, Commons, an
! Privy Council in July 1882, on the West Indi
emancipation question, would of itself be sui
fieient TO condemn them in any impartial cour
of in stiee. Let it be kept in mind that thi
was anterior to the establishment of the ant
slavery societies in our Northern States. so
Immediate abolition and the agitation of tha
bsubiectin Congress- During the examinatlo
Of several witnesses before committee Q
Parliament, several of whom had been citizen
of the Southern States athe witnesses wef
Iasked If immediate abolition has ever bee
proposed or warmly advocated in the Unite
Sta es. They replied in the negative" Fortf
with. the mother anti-slasery society, polit
cal school of the East India company of Lon
j don, began to send to the United States BY a
most every succeeding packet, papers, book
t tracts, reports, agents, missionaries, politics
& incendiary and fanatical intidels, christians
traveIlers.-~maIe and female,--all advocatln
t one and the same thing,--immediate abolition
What is the Eas
) India company now doing in the United State
sl* it has been endeavoring for th
r last ten years to break up the culture of c0tto
and sugar altogether ID the United States, b
: setting the North against the South by mean