Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-07-31
GREAT BRiTAIy's DESIGNS on THE SOUTH,

| No American eta:esplan ever studied the slavery
question: in all its bearings, with more earnestnes'
than Mr.. Calhoun. II was his opinion, often e1
pressed, that England had beea setuated quits rs
much by cupidity rs BY philanthropy in enancipa.
ting her slaves When sue discovered her ralsake,
in snpposng that free labor could easily supefaade
slave labor, and be more economical 1t vas too ia'e
for her to re'rsce the lost ground She began how
ever peSs;stently to work, in order to bring other
countries 10 :he level of her Wet lndla colonies-
She could bully Spain and Portugal at any time INTO
submission to her will but i: was otherwise with the
United States. Here dGerept course was neces-
sary. While her manufactures were hourlsilnS,
chiefly through the steady receipt OF the products OF
our slave labor, her politicians phI!antt and
public writer's were on every OCCASION caiun1nistlng
the South.
The present movement in England TO encourage
the growth of cotton in British colonies and thus re-
duce tee price. and at the time cause her to BIZ
independent. O! the United States for her supplies OF
that staple, is sudden suggestion. As lar back us
August l2, 1874, Mr. Calhoun wrote from the Depart.
ment of State to William 2. King, as follows:
"In order to regain her superiority, she not only
seeks 10 revive and increase her own capacity to pro-
duce tropical productions, but to GiiCinsh aud de-
stroy the capacity OF those who have 50 ter outsrip
ped her in consequence of her error. In pursuit OF
the former, she has cast her eyes to her Last lIdia
poasessous-to central and Eastern Afries-wlth the
view of establishing colonies there, aud even 10 re-
sor.. 81 atiulIy the slave trade ITSELF under the
/ epec;ous of transporting frea laborers from
Arion to he's West India possessions, in ORDER il pos
sble, to compete successfully with those who have
refused TO follow her suicidal policy But these all
afford but uncertain aud distant hopes OF recovering
her lost superiority. Her nuin reliance Is on the
other alternative to cripple or destroy the produc
tions of her successful rivals. There is but one way
by which it be done, and that - Ey aboi!shIng
African slavery throughout this continent aid that
che openly avows to be the constant object OF her po
icy aud eger,ons. j matters not how, or from what
motive il may BIZ done; whether 1t may be by dipio
macy, influence or force; by secret or open means:
4 pl,at,.r he ha H.
out regard TO Inenner, means or motive. The thing
itself, should it be accomplished, would put Gown all
rivalry, aud give her the urdi.puted supremacy III
supplying her wants aud those Of the rest OF the
world, and thereby more than fully reGl ege what she
has lost by ber errors
Tue thirteen years that have elapsed since Mr.. Cal
boun wro;e these remarkable words, have tended 10
prove their truthfGlness. England seeks to-day, even
with more avidi!y than then, commercial supremacy
to he gained no matter a; what coat. Even win the
pact experience che acquired in The West Indies where
emancipation hns been followed b bankruptcy to the
planter, desulaton TO the land and degradation to the
negro; with the ovidece of the utter failure OF
the free labor syster Of her one hundred and thirty
millions Of dependents in the East lndies-laoor so
Improbable, Joined it is to military rule OF the
severest nature, that with all the natural wealth
of England's possessions in the East, they actually
do not pay expenses; shs still eagerly sr.Yea ~ inter
fere with Southern institutions.
She has innunerabe emissaries at the North, both
native aud foreign, who are WORKING constantly 10
bring ruin to the cotton fields OF the South No tsse
hood IL too base for them DO Misrepresentation too
glariug no extravaganza too absurd. Their women
trsvesty men, in their eagerness to crafty their NOR
bid vanity; their men receive cuffs aad kicks, aud
show loss than spirit-bui still their tongues
and pens wag on. Eagerly are their words recopied
into English papers and read from the platform OF
Exeter Hail. aud thus is the mind of tbs people OF
England abu.ed-for every Southern journal is care.
fully excluded from their sight, lest they siond be-
come familiar with the true state OF our affairs.
Ihn "a ,rlru nfI.
in carrying the cotton question into the House Of Com
mons, and We presume each year aord debate will
take place there, the facts being borrowed from Mrs
Stoves r0mances and Mr. Greeisys Tribune aud the
Iscarot rather than Christian men, Nrw Orleans
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