Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-19

mistake. They vindicate The superiority Of free
labor, even where its effects are least perceived
In refoi ence 20 increased conSumption il is en-
tirey impossible that the increase In the use of
cotton, which went on rapidly from 1890 to
! 1910, should continue. The cause OF that in.
crease was the Invention of machinery for clean.
ing and manufacturing cotton. This cheapened
the fabrics of cotton so much that for a moderate
climate cotton was the best and cheapest material
for clothing. But as the number of penple in
Europe who wear such clothing is limited. and
and grows slowly, it is evident that when the use
Of cotton has been generally introduced there will
no longer be room for very rapid increase.
This is really the reason why the erportation OF
our cotton is not now increasing materially. That
it is not, we shall learn by referring to the Gus.
tom House. Referring 10 amount (not value) we
find the result thus: d.
Cotton Export in 1s49 1.O26. COO 900 lbs.
1857 1.04S .2S2 000 lbs.
In nine years we have not materially increased
the erp6I If cotton. This is q most significant
and decisive fact. There is another one almost
as striking While we have not in many years,
very greatly increased our export, have increas.
ed our home consumption. American manufnc.
tufe5 are now constituting much larger share of
cotton and thus, if cotton is to be king any longer it
must fulU by American hands. In fact, our great
merchants and bankers, as well as our politicians
have to learn, in spite of all their long aud oh.
stinate opposition that the American policy 10 the
true one. They about to be converted In the
hardest of all ways, by hard experience. The
American cotton planter must seek his great mnr
ket in the American free States, or go without
one. If he seeks it there he must find his con.
servatism also, in a union with the interests and
feelings of the free States, and net in the Wild
delusive political insanity Of Southern free trade
conventions, and free trade confederacies; and the
Northern conservatives must find their interests
not in a vain ministry to slavery, vain an
attempt to fence it off against the approaches Of
freedom. but in the conservation of free labor,
and the building up of American arts.
Cotton planting by negro slavery has to meet
last and fatal enemy in the competition of African
free labor 1t is now ascertained beyond any
doubt that what may be Il very dific ult thing for
the English in India, is n very easy one in Africa
Unlimited extent of lands and docile laborers are
only waiting for the hand of commerce to bring
forth cotton in amounts, and at prices, beyond
competition of American planters. This event NAV
be removed for many years, by the slow progress
of civilization, in that dark land. But, i. will
inevitably come No man nation can contend
against nature; and if the Black man can produce
one pound of cotton in America, he can produce |
five in Africa. lie has been oppressed by the
darkness of ignorance, and the tyranny of power.
But, his day is coming, and not, think, SO
remote. as many believe. In the meanwhile,
those who are raising cotton in America by Afri-
can labor, can make new arrangements, conform
to the new order of things. Cotton the world
will have; but the time Is gohe by when the com.
merce and opinions of this country, can be govern
ed by cotton.