Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-03-11
The london Time.---ss Cotton is King,

slave labor has given to the Southern United States
It puts strong and confident words-not exactly
such IS they have uttered-into the mouths Of Sou
thern cotton planters, and addressing them, adds:
"The elements of your calcuation are the prop
erty OF the whole world, and it will he very hard
indeed if the whole world allows you monopoly of
cotton. You've got the soil, and VIC don't deny you
the intelligence. You have made your nggers do
their work. and you are entitled to all the praise of
successful enterprise and courage Thas far we all
of US look rather small by your side. In sober
truth, the American slave.owner is one of the con-
sistent personages left the earth and should have
a foremost niche in the next Essays Decision Of
tai humbuggery," as it is called in the New Orleans
Della, about him. He does what he likes with his
own he avows his principles acts up to them, and
now openly prophecies the Millennium in which the
cotton plant shall be the tree of life. and the minis
tering angels shall be of the family of Ham. On
the contrary, the aboltoniss and freesoilers, the
Northern States and England are all playing the hy
pocrite. We all live by the cotton tree. 1t is the
British heart of oak. Many baronial hall, many
church, many guild, cities, navics and other noble
works, have been made from cotton wool, and from
the sweat of the African who watered it and pluck
ed the 1ossy pod, and cleaned it, and packed it in
bales. Millions of countrymen would never
have seen the light but for this exotic production
and for it's cultivators. failure OF the crop is to
large part of our people virtual famine. Should
the cultivation of the plant find its limits-that is
should it not increase in equal proportion to the
multiplication of the human and its growing
wants, shall find ourselves more hidebound on
our means OF life than We are by the narrowness OF
these isles. We know all this. We know that the
thread Of cur national destiny is cotton We know
that for all mercantile purposes England is one of
the States; and that, III effect partners with
the Southern planter; VIC hold bill of sale his
goods and chattels his live and dead Stock and take
lions share IN the profits Of slavery. Yet as u
nation, staunch abotonistS, fete Mrs
Stowc cry over her books, and pray for an ami
slavery President. We thank God that no slave can
exist British SOIL and only the other day Of
soOerest statesmen were denouncing and prohit-
iting sla grown sugar. But all this time
clothing not only ourselves, but all the world be-
sides with the very cotton picked by Uncle Tom
and his fellow sufferers. 1t is trade 1t is the
great staple of British industry. We are Mr.. Le-
gree's agents for the manufacture and sale of his
cotton crop. Should a'y thing happen 10 Mr.. Le-
gree, and should he bc unfortunate as not to keep
up his black stock, we shall all be ruined, and
shall have to take our place in the second rank of
nations.
This will be thought mere croakins. We arc all
so accustomed to the ideas OF national growth and
commercial progress that we take for granted that
shall 60 We have DINE. Whatever We
want, there will he enough of it. Thus it would
seem the American Alnaschar not at all out
of the way in his antcipations for there is pres
ent probability of cotton supply equal to the wants
Of our trade, except by some such process as he i'm
agincs. 10 produce more there must be more land
brought into the cultivation, and more hands to till
it. But more hands cannot be procured, except by
a revival of the slave trade in some form or other
Something indeed is done already, by letting other
countries supply US with slave-grown sugar, while
America gives more attent on to slave grown cotton.
But we cannot have more American cotton without
more American slavery. What to do, then,
with our philanthropy? Some people will advise
US, under the ci, cumstanccS to get rid of it alto
gether; others to keep it for home use. We arc of
opinion that it may take another form. Instead Of
always giving the American slave c-Owner our money
and our morality so mixed that he deSpises the one
and hates the other, why cannot we make greater
efforts than we have done heretofore TO extend the
cultivation OF free-grown cotton? India, OF course,
must and will give us more cotton now that the rail
ways at last forcing their way into the heart of
her dense population Africa, according to Dr. Liv,
ngsor, is full OF peoples and countries suited in all
respects to the cuv OF of c,tton. Everything
is ready but that enterprise, and skill, and money,
which only can supply. Why not these for h.
coming? We hear all sides of capitalists who
want employment for their money, adventurous
phianthropists who want to spend life and money
for the good Of their species. The complaint is that
in this old, used-up earth there fields Of
enterprise of promotion, not even any
good to be DONE The religion of the age is contin.
ualy urging people to high, dreamy martyr
should all evaporate in talk, in reading novels, or
attending religious meetings. Let British philan-
thropy, science and capital put their heads togcth
er, as they have often done BEFORE and seek COM
mon object in the extension of the cotton cultiva
ton without the aid of slavery. 1t is work for
missionaries and millonaircs 1t has just that com
bnation of physical and spiritual objects that is
most consistent with the general order of this world
We shall be able to know the good We are doing by
the good receive, and the annual delivery of so
many hundred thousand bales of cotton on our
wharE will constitute more trustworthy report
than 500 pages of twaddling correspondence"
The monopoly Of cotton" is not likely to pass
from the Southern States. 1t has lately been shown
by Mr.. Dennison, leading statistician, before the
British Association for the advancement of Science
II. That in the present state Of the commercial
relations OF the two countries the cotton planters
Of the United States interested to the extent of
about twothirds of their exportabe produce in the
maintenance of the cotton manufacture of the Uni
ted Kingdom and
III. That, recprocay. the cotton manufactures of
the United Kingdom, and through them the entire
population of the Kingdom are interested to the ex.
tent of about fourffths of the raw material of that
manufacture in the existing arrangements for main.
tanning the cotton culture of the United States"
These conclusions are based upon the following ::
l. That cotton must be grown almost entirely out
of Europe and manufactured chiefly in Europe and
in Europe chiefly in Great Britain.
Q. That cotton has hitherto been grown, and, as
far as yet appears, must continue to be- chiefly by
slqre M6or.
O. That for the last fifty years Great Britain seek
ing her supply of cotton all the earth, with
preference during great part of that period for the