The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-18

IL requires and IL u vel known that the NH own
srs themselves have Iopg been most anxious to ~
medy the evil. In TIE Merchants Magazine for
this month, we fn&some appropriate remarks upon
this subject:
has sufciently demonstrated that 40 long de-
pendept for cotton supplies upon the produce Of the
S.,stqous interruptions Of our industry it should be
the chief object Of wise TO guard against
It has shown FIRST that the quality and quantity Of
the cotton crops Influenced by variety Of circun
pregnant with the elements Of encouragement
but over more which the British purchaser exer
else control second that besides the chancs of the sea-
the amount and produced uotuates according
to various conflicting incidents into which individual ca
price and SELF enter primarily; ana sn,ia IL
the American cotton districts are being by no means oe
veloped In ratio propotioned to the increasing de-
maDds Of the English the American, and the European
Continental consumers In short the opinion Of eminent
practical men amongst whom Mr.. Bright n. r. has
been Of the most careful and actives that unless
some new sources Of cotton supply cultivated there
must occur before many years an absolute and perma
nent deficit in the amount procurabe from America
Such deficit implies consequences striking At the very
existence Of the framework Of society in this country
and which the philosGphS politician can hardly 'onts
This is not . visionary apprehension ; there is,
We fear too much reality in it but, unfortunately,
although we have seen the same prediction made
for the last three four years. no sufficient means
have yet been adopted to overcome the difficulty;
The great error which has been committed, and
which has kept tho question in doubt and uncer-
tanty for many years past, has arisen from the mo-
G00 tnat ln01o 10 only country 10 WnlCn VIC chu
look for sufficient supply, should the United States
fail Even the writer Of the article before us falls
For the attainment Of the Objects scient supply Of
cotten-[he aayslwe must look to Asistio posses
for enabling to srapple with every sxgsnsy that
be Gated by the revolution now going ON In the manu-
featuring and producing balances abroad.
During tho last twenty years, neither industry
nor expense has been spared In the endeavorto pro-
mote the cultivation of cotton In India, fit for the
Erglish market and We will venture to say, that
had the same exertions been made in colonies
have been made in India, England might have long
since shaken of it's dependence on the United
States for tho article. We are surprised that the
writer in tho magazine should entertain any doubt
on the subject
Is it not within the limits Of possibility Che asks
that among the rich and numerous and widely extended
regions subject to the far reaching rule OF the British
there may be districts which possess the cspa
bity of furpishpg with that which much need
and the continuous scarcity Of which would involve
in misortunes from which stroke of staesmanship
art Of political COMPUTING could e1tricate US?
1t is not merely within the limits of possibility,
but matter Of certainty that the colonies Of Eng
land could supply her with all the cotton she could
possibly require. without importing single bale
alone thst the country should rely for the supply Of
article essential to her industry and the main
tenance OF her people. Neither would we exclude
India from sending its contribution; the East and
should each and all be in condition to supply u.s.
With such resources, we cannot but think that
any difficulty which the country may experience
must be created through its own apathy and neglect
Our own West India colonies used, at one period,
to send us considerable quantity OF cotton, and
this, too, before possessed British Guiana; they
could do 60 again. The latter province alone, with
its almost boundless range Of fertile country and
virgin soil, might, in o very few years, be to as
what the United States are at present. But Eng
land must first get rid of the notion that the United
States and India are the only two cotton growing
countries in the universe.
The Cuban Question and the Election OF
General Pierce.
From the London Chronicle Dec.
The last accounts from Cuba depict the loyal in
habitants Of the island as thrown into state OF the
utmost CONSERVATION by the success Of General
Pierce in the United States Pubio opinion has SO
Gratis with high.handed injustice, and has 80 uni
formly imputed to their whig antagonists an on
larged sense Of international rights that, on view
Of the recent contest taken from such . point as
Cuba, we can readily understand why all prospect
Of immunity from periodi:a piraces was considered
to be staked on the return Of the wing candidate
But we have only too much reason to believe that
this reasoning is in one Of its branches faacious;
for it would be aiming against probabilities to sup
pore that the irde pendence of Cuba, however
menaced by General Pierce, would have been safe
lorg sirce any other asprant to the chieftainship
of the State, has, even in America, called to his
aid so many popular passions as those to each
Of which General Scott addressed distinct appeal
which have been longest settled, lingering molina
tion to claim the citizenship Of the republio as an
inherited highland, therefore, at point, Scott
was Native American. The greed Of new terrific
and 80 be proposed to annex Canada. The spirit
Of abolitionism, hitherto uncertain in its direction
and straight westcoated by prejudice, has neverths-
less an indefinite latent capacity for enchanting the
sympsthies Of the people-and 50 the last resource
Of this interruptions politician was to coquette with
the freescilers. He allied himself to each Of those
opinions in turn and in turn denied them when the
emergency required variance in his professions.
If the evidences Of his character 60 for anything,
Scott, as President, must have been either the
tool ofthe leading wings, or the most reckless Of the
demagogues who have more than once occupied the
White House. Cuba, Mexico, and, mo less than
these, the great Anglo Saxon Republic ITSELF would
have been sgnally fortunate if he had suffered him
self to be managed by the able advisers whose ad-
moniticns and guidance he might have commanded.
But the bent of such . disposition is towards
headstrong independence; and even had he proved
more pliable than he was likely to be, we cannot
that, since its late irreparabe loss, mach Of
its elevated feeling rs well as much Of its political
weight, has departed out of the wing party.
We augur favorably Of Mr.. Pieros, not go much
from the praises Of his friends, which are worth
less as the basis Of an infe renee, but from the turn
which has been taken by the vituperation of his FOES
They reproach him for his tameness and want OF
spirit, as man of colorless politics and suspect
ed courage. Making reasonable deduction from
these imputationk-which in the form in which We
see them, are no dou Ut calumnes-we imagine
him to be that Transatlantic rara aris, q moderate
and cautious politician. faveri.e libel of the
wings AYERS that he tainted In the crisis of of
the Me xican battles. Translated into different
language from tina. of political malsvolencs, this
state ment is as much calculated to re- assure the
neighbors and allies Of the United States, as tae
grandiloquent rhetoric in which Scott's petty
skirmishes sre described is fitted to rouse their
suspicious and to excite their fears Most ener-
geticay do We hope that, in politics. Mr. Pierce is
the revere Of beau sabreur. Probably, the career
and desinies of free nation were never before 70
unreservedly con6ded to the direction of single
will The great party which he commands IL ready
to mould tself to overy Of his purposes for it
has political views Of its own, and it is perfectly
ready TO adopt creed with tho same unbounded
confidence in the turns Of hazard which it has just
displayed in the choice of President. It is long,
indeed, since any distinct meaning attached to the
" democracy Of the American democrats. Power
full as that confederacy has always been and intee-