New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-27
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Manchester, England-the great manufacturing town
81 lie world III the Town Hall Of that place the
bullheaded John Balls meet at regularly stated pc
RODS for tie purpose of discussing ways and means
to obtain an adequate supply of cheap cotton from
other sources than the Southern United States, As
vet their deliberations have amounted to little or
nothing farther than to display miserable hostility
to slavery in the South upon the profits derived from
the manufacture Of the products Of which the com
mercial grandeur and greatness Of England almost
exclusively depend. "slayes cannot breathe in Eng.
land" shouteth John Ball with remarkable vigor and
emphasis yet John is the greatest encourager of sla-
very on earth Johns custom does more to support
slavery than everything else combined, Ah John
you are an arrant hypocrite Your practices give
the lie to your professions SO plainly that all the
world sees through the aimsy veil with which you
seek to hide your moral deformities,
Yet, while enemies are working constantly to ae'
complsh unfriendy objects, it is well enough-no
matter how independent we may eel-to keep iuiIy
posted so that march may NOT be stolen upon u.s.
The Cotton Supply Association is looking all over
the surface Of the earth for spots on which to grow
cotton. India is to be more thoroughly cultivated
the isles Of the Orient to be examined Africa is
believed to be susceptible Of yielding great amount,
and hopes are founded upon Jamaica and other West
India Islands And, eli PEASANT, we will remark that
the French are founding large expectations upon
Algeria, which we are inclined to think will be real
lied to considerable extent. as the labor they will
employ will be anything but voluntary, although
nominally free.
The Euglish there is little doubt, control some
choice cotton lands in their Cape Coast Castle dis
trct, in Africa. This is manifest from two sources
one showing the capacity Of the lands, and the other
that system of compulsory labor is in operation
The following from the New York Herald may be
read with interest:
A letter received by the Cotton Supply Association
of England from Mr.. R. D. Ross Cape Coast Castle
which appears in the London Times, states emphatic
ally that cotton, which is indigenous to Africa, and
grows abundanty in Ashantee, might be obtained
equal to that Of Georgia. both in quantity and quality
MIR Ross thinks the Africans would readily profit by
instruction, and that Africa would before long com
pete well with the slave States Of America if capital
lists would establish organization in central dis
tficts TO purchase and prepare for export all the
cotton which the natives should be left to grow
themselves
Now for the other authority. The venerable Bishop
Payne in letter recently given to the public through
the columns of the Colonization Journal, says that
slaves and pawns are the classes of laborers that
make up large portion of the population of the
town around Cape Coast Castle The good Bishop
thus ngenuously writes:
On the first day in the year, in much paufulness, |
went on shore at Cape Coast Castle, and spent the
day in visiting the fort, town. etc. We were carried
to the shore in large canoes, made out of the trunk
of the cotton tree. They were very comfortable,
being wide, and provided with sort Of bulwark of
plank in 'front.' TO break off the surf, in landing.
They were padded by from ten to fifteen natives
who, from their appearance, tCeFe either SareS or
palUns, these two classes making up a large portion
of the population Of the town around Cape Coast
Castle.
The pawns are those who have given their services
to parties in consideration of their having paid off
pressing debt and as they often never repay,
they remain pawns
Further along the Bishop speaks in this wise of
inland river town not far from Cape Coast Castle
In a commercial point Of view, Abbeoluta is grow
ing in importance, not so much on account OF its
good palm oil as on account of the superior cotton
cultivated there, and about the country. 1t is, of
course, still a beginnings however many gins and
aud some presses are at work, and 700 bates Of
cotton shipped for England the last fe1C months,
We pray that this prosperity in worldly things may
not iniure and hinder spiritual growth amongst the
people.
Well what of this? Nothing more than that the
English hayeat last displayed some practical sense in
at least one of their numerous colonial possessions
Forced negro abor-it is of no consequence by what
name it is caed-is alone competent to furnish full
supply Of cotton. Let the g free negroes of Cape
Coast Castle be compelled to work and considerable
quantity of cotton may be grown. Otherwise, not.
And, if John Bull would re.enslaye the negroes OF
Jamaica, and other Islands whom he freed in fit Of
frantic philanthropy he might be enabled to raise a
full halt million of bales per annum in addition. The
confessions Of Johns chosen organs show that free
dom has degraded and rendered worthless the
of jamaica Let him re.ensave them, then, and thus
elevate them and make them useful, and at the same
time render himself comparatively independent OF
the Southern monopoly in the great staple.
When England abandons the wretched phian
thropy by which she has lost 50 much without bene
fitting anybody, and resorts to a system of eompul
sorry seryitude, then the cotton States may fear q
riVal-but not until then. II the Cape Coast Castle
experiment turns out well she may be induced to try
it in Jamaica. In year two, probably, fyesixths
Of the free negroes there could be transformed int
pawas," and little philanthropic legislation, sucl
as England knows 50 well how to employ, might keel
them in pawn" forever
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