The true Democrat., 1857-06-02
From the N. o. Courier. CnrCrN.kx,


 Ing districts are just now sadly exercised at tbe nlSn prlces which our great staples command Tn their markets. They seem to be afflicted at the extent to which prosperity is smiling on so many others than themselves. It is too much for their ideas of |" the balance of trade ,. that while they amass millions by working up the great staple, the grower should find his capital risk labor and skill, yielding him a grateful return. Accustomed, of late years. to sway thelr own government and to find them selves above all control except such as they may choose to feign a submission to, they de- sire to extend their influence. They would Weld as stern and relentless power over the producer of the raw material as they do over Ihelr hardly wrought, ignorant, miserablv paid factory, hands, at whose expense they thrive.
 But they find something more than mere check in their efforts They perceive that if the British manufacturers are "cotton lords ; the great staple it is that makes them so: |" Cot ton is King" All efforts to interfere with it's soverlsn authority to abrdge it, or to divert it. have proved signally abortive It has increas eH n strength iIom year to year, till now it quite ovcrShadows them, and promises to con. u"ne to Increase indefinitely. And they are aiming, apparently all the more resolntelv. al releasing themselves from a position sd rksone to their grasping avaricc their selfish arrogance and thelr narrow preudices
 nat k to be the war-crv under which thpv will marshal for this new onsetis not vet unite clear. At present it seems that they can find no better one than that founded on the pre-. sent high prices of coLtou That. however certainly cannot last long, The demand does not yet exceed the supply, and therefore, ac- cordlng to theIr own free trade theories, prices cannot % bey ond an equitable range; any effort to force them below 1t by unnaturalv sti- mulaung production can end in nothing but disaster IL may be that they wish this lisas ter to iall on the planter of the United States: but they can scarcely be silly enough to be. HeVe that there is the slightest approach to certainty, or even any applicable amount of probability that this would be the result
 The efforts that have already been made with this and similar ends in view have been neither few nor trlting, although they have invariably failed. The East Indies, the West lndIes, Brazil, Egypt have in turn been tried. Africa has been looked to with earnest wistful- ness. But all in vain even when the cultiya- ton ot the product in this country had not reached Its present extent or exceiIeuce and who can doubt that similar results must be now arrived at?
 The immense advantage now possessed by the United States in the cultivation of cotton cannot be too strongly insisted ou. The vast amount ot capital invested iu it must alone Tor long tune at least, if not always. para. i}ze competition. Here, the return for it may always De approximately estimated Where, ever else It might be sent, it could be sure of realizing nothing, except the great risk of sinking It. The skill, knowledge and adapta- ton for the cultivation of the product, which long eNpereuce, upboundei enterprise and en- ef5N, unrTaIl"d perseverance, and ever con- u"uinS efforts at improvement, have enabed Us to attain, form another iIsurmountable bar her to any assault that can possibly be made against Us. And let theorists prate as they wlII and fanatics rave as they may, our soil and climate and our happy labor system, form vet another which not all the gold of all the ueIls anu all the currencics can purchase or ,uppIaUt by substitutes
 Indeed, instead of the cotton planter of this country having any thing to fear, it iS in fact tAe greedy, envIouo, scnemiug manufacturers pi Manchester and co5uate districts that are most likely to find their profits assailel; and tIItt without any narrow minded or uugenerous ieare or effort on the part ot the planter: but entirely through the natural and inevitable course of things. lu the su cess of the ma chnery O! MT. Henry their is necessarily in- vo!ved farther greater advantage to the plan CT and drawback upon tile employment oi Brush capital, and consequently of the prohta on that capital. And so from time to tune other improvements will continue 10 be made, aud to adl to the advantage and iln- pregnablity of the position of the planter.
 Neither consumption nor production, doubt less. Is destined to stand at its present level; put It Is the former which at present seems most hkelN to advance. The tendency s au towards the improvement of the condition ot the masses Of the world; and their advance meut in prosperity and com lort what is it if it ioes not carry with 1t an increase in the con- sumption ot cotton mauuhctorje,? With China opened ui, Russia improving, the East arou~ing to tnerSiuc life. and ths continent filing with enterprise, who can dream of stationary Ppiut m consumption? With the superioritl when Amercau cotton without dispute holds n every market in the worI, what uufavora- ole result can 1t have to anticipate from what ever amount of production increased demand nay ada to the present?
 Let the cotton lords, then betrav their a,si- mus aa openly and bitterly as they may, yhe efforts ae far a, they are intended to operate DiurIoa.ly oH the southern planters, by seeking their supplies from other quarters, are futile hl'i worthy of nothing bat quiet indifference. They may subscribe their money, but if used tor those purposes, their subscriptions will soon dWlhdIc to less than litlene~s"