Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-03-07

THE London Times-..ss Cotton is King"
rne London Tines aliudesia arecent arc e. VITA
c,ce and point which characterize all its articles,
w., mower which the production of cotton by
labor has given to the Southern United States.
s ,,s strong and confident words-not exactly
"r thew have uttered-into the mouths Of Sou.
.u ., cotton planters, and addressing them, adds:
uuuo elements of your calculation are the prop
af the whole world, and it will he very hard
cry u if the whole world allows you monopoly of
lhues You've got the soil, and we don't deny you
e co., Intelligence You have made your niggers do
tug work. and you entitled to all the praise of
tns ,"cssiul enterprise and courage Thus far we all
sl'S.l look rather small by your side. In sober
" .h the American slave.owner is one OF the con-
uul' nersonages lett the earth and should have
rsamost niche in the next Essays on Decision of
;a.O,ar.r" There is no subterfuge, no "sentimen-
"a, humbuggery, as it is called IN the New orleans
IA II, about him. He does what he likes with his
p rn he avows his principles, acts up to them and
o"n' onenly prophecies the Millennium in which the
Nv" nlant shall be the tree of lfe and the minis
.sr;nr angels shall be of the family of Ham. On
.sa contrary, the abotonists and ireesoers. the
Norbern States and England are all playing the n.y.
nocrite We all live by the cotton tree 1t is the
Rt,r;,>b heart of oak. Many baronial hail. many
.hnrcb, many guild, cities, navies and other noble
r.s have been made from cotton wool, and from
wv sweat of the African who watered it and pluck
Cd the tlossy pod and cleaned it, and packed it in
baes. Millions of our countrymen would never
how, seen the light but for this exotic production
and for its cutvators failure Of the crop is to a
l.rce part of our people virtual famine. Should
tte cultivation of the plant tiud its limits-that is,
should it not increase in equal proportion to the
MULTIPLICATION of the human race and its growing
wants. we shall find ourselves more hidebound on
our means o. life than We are by the narrowness OF
Wy Az. &L,
thread of our national destiny is cotton. We know
that for all mercantile purposes England is one Of
the States; and that, in effect, we partners with
the Southern planter; we hold bill OF sale over his
goods and chattels his live and dead STOCK and take
a lions share IN the profits of slavery. Yet, as
nation, we are staunch abolitionistS, we tee Mrs.
Stowe, 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 some OF
our Soperest statesmen were denouncing and prohit-
ting slase-grow,l sugar. But all this time
clothing not only ourselves, but all the world be-
81 les, with the very cotton picked by Unc'e Tom
and his fellow-sutfrrcrs IL is trade. 1t is the
great staple of British industry. We are Mr.. Le-
cree's agents for the manufacture and sale OF his
cotton crop. Should a:.y thing happen TO MIR. Lee
gree and should hr be unfortunate as not to keep
up his black stuck, shall all be ruined, and
shall have to take our place in the second rank OF
nations.
so accustomed to the ideas OF national growth and
commercial progress that we take for granted that
we shall 20 on as have done. Whatever we
want, there will be enough of it. Thus it would
seem the American Alnaschar was not at all out
of the way in his ancipatons for there is no pres
ent probability of cotton supply equal to the wants
Of our trade, except by some such process as he i'm
agnes. 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
revival of the slave trade in some form or other
Something indeed is d2ne already, by letting other
countries supply US with slave-grown sugar, while
America gives more attention 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 circumstances, to get rid OF it alto
gethcr; others to keep it for home use. We are Of
opinion that it may take another form. Instead Of
always giving the American siave-Owner our money
and our morality so mixed that he despises the
and hates the other, why cannot make greater
efforts than we have done heretofore 10 extend the
cultivation of free-grown cotton? india of course,
must and will give us more cotton now that the rail
ways last forcing their way into the heart of
her dense population Africa, according to DR.. Lv-
ngstor, is full Of peoples and countries suited in all
respects to the GUILTY.. OF of cotton. Everything
is ready but that enterprise, and Skill and money,
which we only can supply. Why are not these forth
coming? We hear ali sides of capitalists who
want employment for their money, adventurous
minds who want objects worthy of their genius,
philanthropists who want to spend life and money
for the good of their species. The complaint is that
in this old, uscdup earth, there no new fields Of
enterprise, no avenues of promotion, not even any
good to be done. The religion of the age is contn.
uaIy urging people to some high, dreamy martyr
dom. These grand aspirations. Pity it's they
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 millonares 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 doing by
the good receive, and the annual delivery Of SO
many hundred thousand bales Of cotton on our
wharfs will constitute a more trustworthy report
than 500 pages of twaddling correspondence"
The monopoly of cotton" is not likely to pa s
from the Southern States. 1t has lately been show
by Mr. Dennison, leading statistician, before the
British Association for the advancement Of Science
~. That in the present state of the commercial
relations of the two countries the cotton planters
Of the United States interested to the extent oil
about two thirds of their exportable produce in the
maintenance of the cotton manufacture Of the Uni.
ted Kingdom and
II. That, reciprocally. the cotton manufactures oil
the United Kingdom, and through them the entire
population of the Kingdom, interested to the ex-
tent of about four hs 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
!. That cotton must be grown almost entirely out
Of Europe and manufactured chiefly in Europe and
In Europe chiefly in Great Britain.
2 That cotton has hitherto been grown, and. as
far as yet appears, must continue to be- chiefly by
Stare MJor.
q That for the last fifty years Great Britain, seek
ing her supply of cotton all the earth, with a
Preference during great part of that period for the
produce of free labor, has yet received during the
Whole of that nerad and continues to receive all