Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-06-27

SEE FIRST AND FOURTH PAGES
British Wealth and American Cotton.
The continued high prices for cotton
and the increased demand for the raw
material by the Manufactures in Eng
land, have sharpened the wits Of polit-
| zeal economists in Great Britain to
account for the cause, and devise a
suitable remedy for the evil Of short
supply. The uncongenial soil of India
has been nursad with peculiar care, with
the view of loosening the absolute de-
pcndence Of British capitalists upon the
American cotton crop; but these fruit
less efforts have proved totally unavail-
ing. The great mistake of Great
itain in her emancipation of the
slaves OF the West Indies-and thereby
putting an end to the productiveness
of those fertile cotton and sugar produ-
cling Islands-has opened the scared
eyes of the British subjects, TO the folly
of freeing race which is never known
TO produce wealth or engage in labor
by voluntary effort, and who are, when
free, the most abject and squalid hr-
mans among the races of men. Those
West India Islands, are useless gems
in the Sea, when they might be made
to administer to the comfort and the
happiness of a large portion of the civ
ilzed world, but for the folly Of negro
emancipation. England is now trying
to find a substitute for the lost labor
of the negroes. The Africans will not
labor, and the laws do not compel them
to do so. They are class of lazzaroni,
living upon the spontaneous produc-
tio.s of the soil, and finding shelter in
the forests. The London journals with
great unanimity, are advocating the
apprentice SYSTEM which is m di
fed species of African slavery. They
propose to go to Africa, and convey to
the West Indies thousands Of blacks as
apprentices for long term of years.
giving to masters, fully as much power
over them rs owners exercise over
slaves. This miserable dodge of the
British louln Is, unmasks their real
opinions Of the folly OF British West
India emancipation. 1t is an open
avowal that blacks will not labor except
upon compulsion: that the crops pecu-
liar to tile tropical regions cannot be
raised except by forced labor of the
black race; and yet the sentimentalists
of England deeply deplore negro sla
very in America, while they are bel
lowing voci'erously for more cotton,
only to be produced by slave labor.
The cotton crops of the South is the
power which controls British wealth.
The spindes, looms and cotton Manu-
factories of England are power which
when agltated will shake the British
throne. This power is affected by the
cotton crops of the Southern States
upon which also is the Commerce of
the two nations greatly dependent.
The n. Y. Times has sage sugges
ton n the odd of June number, shat
the Germans be substituted for the
Negroes, as cotton raisers :" If this
last spasm OF collapsing negro phil
osophy does not excite Il broad grin OF
mirthiulncss, among all classes, and
especially among Germans, then we
shall cease to be amazed at anything.
This Republican journal, undoubtedly
feels that it is better to make slaves of
Germans and ',chite brethren' Of SHARES,
than permit the Germans to take care
of themselves. 1t is as utterly impos
sible to substitute white labor for black
labor, in the cotton fields of the South,
o. it would be to enslavc the Indians.
The white man cannot survive the
fierce heats on the plantations of the
South. Negroes bask in an intense
sun-heat, while the white man Wits
and dies by its severity. Experience
has proven that black labor is the only
labor that can protitably or cifectualy
be employed in cotton raising.
Philanthropists in England and
America may talk about "al men being
free and equal" except in the color of
the skin, the curl of the hair, and the
length of heels, bit all the inventive
talent of the world will never discover
substitute for negro labor compulsor-
lily enforced Cotton cannot be raised
sugar cannot be produced, and rice he,
cultivated except by involuntary Afri
can labor. Such has been the expert.
ence of the past, and such is confessed
to be the truth bv the abolition journals
of England. Free negros uia not be.
come cotton raisers. Free whites cannot
become such. The world must have
cotton. Africa is full of brutal and
ferocious heathcns, whose cruel rites,
bloody atrocities, and incurablc vices.
makes Africa den of vagabonds. No
wrong will be done to them if the civ.
ilized world shall take them from their
field Of stolid harbarity, and make them
useful producers for the benefit of
mankind. England proposed the in.
voluntary apprentice system, and she
first introduced the absolute system
of negro slavery into the United
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