The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1851-01-16

CULTURIE o 3 CoTTON in BRrFIsH De-
PENDENcEs.-As a matter Of duty to our
readers, wi try to furnish full information
Of all the projects, and even the hopes
and wishes, Of British manufactures, that
have a bearing on the permanence OF our
control Of the cotton market, and in this
view we copy the following article from
the European Times, Of April 90. The
upward tendency Of pieces regularly pro-
duces a crop Of these schemes for the
growth of Cotton in India, 10 Africa, in
South America Vel, Britain has land
enough, and range of climate enough
why do not these projectors go TO work
and raise the cotton? 1t is not a mouop.
oily that we have any claim TO, by virtue of
immemorial possession. The culture is
barely half a century old in the United
States-it is known to be more than TWEEN
Nv centuries, old in India. We borrowed
il from there, and Great Britain IS in pos
session Of the original cotton field. Why
DO they grumble and enter into conspira.
cies against the Southern States, as il the
latter were an oveTgrown despotism that
forcibIy withheld from them the privilege Of
cultivatIng the earth according 10 their
own discretion? We shall certainly be
interested in their experiments, but, for the
present, at least, have no intention 10 ex-
port any Of our c~aterpillars to make war on
them.
The British projectors will perhaps find
in their colonies every element of success
full competition in the growth of cotton,
but one, and the failure Of that may over
turn all their schemes. 10 what part Of
! their empire will they find the population,
to rival ours in the efficiency of labor2 In
nearly all attempts OF this sort, they show
a IamentabIe want of comprehensiyeness
$ of View. They never look at the whole
subject, Not long since they abolish
3 slavery 10 the west Indies, and justified the
: industrial policy Of the measure BY assum
ing hat free labor is cheaper and more
effective than slave labor. Under certain
circumstances the assumption is true en-
ough but their application of it made i
8 equivalent to the assertion that wild buffa
- loes are more efficient for agriculture thai
domesticatpd oxen. The wild animals ar
Y strong and hardy ; but they won't work a
n all. So ii proved with their enflanchiset
e bondmen.
10 Finding this result, the English wise
acres next adopted the maxim, that whit
labor is superior to black, and attempted t
II colonize the West Indies from Ireland an
to else where. The climate destroyed thes
colonists and put an end to the maSim.-
a. Admitting, then, that in the tropics, tn
Africans, who aourished in health, wei
wasted by disease, they sought a remed
or for the incficiency Of the former by mutt
ar plying their nutnbers-as il ten lazy vagi
$, bonds were likely to be converted into il
OF dustrious producers, by adding ten NOR
tn as bad or worse than themselves. Th
pa is their present specific for all colonial ill
ne They are TO export lahorers from Africa.
ay UT instructed, indolert by nature, and
Nv cious by ignorance and habit, and wi
IT such an instrument they are TO beat dow
an that supremacy of the Southern Stat
'at which has been acquired in open, unfavC
ed competition with all the world. TIL
&c. are welcome 10 the trial and all they q
on make by it. "