New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-16

hardware esrttenwsre. cslicses and other mer' an
dlse in payment Or every hand a prodisioa' I'M
pulse vas siseu to native Industry. Young Ain
can. were cent to Elg.aud to De instructed n Ihs
bert methods Of cleaning the cotton without ipjpV
70 the Gbrt 81 Is 10 extend the art more thoroughly
on their return. Their conduct vas s1emria-
r.. while their aptitude In learning oil that vas
set before them ass truly remarkable. The reaoi-
ness with which the natives entered into the ouSi-
ness Of producing cotton, extending is cultivation,
and q carefully preparing il for market BY using
gins, contrasts strongly with the un~illngaess oil
the natives of Inti. to eupoJ the plsst form Of
modern machinery, while it gives Certain token OF
wat n1orsl and commercial results. The testimony
Of oil travellers il uniform that it mus. stare ou'
the slsvetrsde SO far the beginning is necessarily
email, as sll beginnings are, attended With great
difficulties and frequent dnappolutnents. but The
future is full Of promise The btginnings of Aueri'
can cotton cui,ur. were infinitely mere contemps-
Dle TIE whole British import of American cotton
for seven years, from l7-4 to 1871, was only "a
Lales, while the single town Of Abbeokuts- In AZ
rics in 1856 ard 81, exported twenty times !nsr
quantity. The culture Of cotton began here whs0
building vas comparatively An unknown
art, and its highest efforts crude aud ineffceot As
wen "a very costly. African cultivation is met at
the threshold BY machinery Of the beat and simplest
kind proved by our OVID experience of bait cen
fury to BIZ the best adapted for the purpose and sold
so cheGply that cotton gins premise to become As
plenty there as coffee miil- here. The supply being
bouudless, commerce Will assuredly bnIg Is out
for African cotton must obey that unTarying law
which causes raw material, OF whatever kind 20
follow capital. In return, commerce VIII md IN
Africa that ever increasing market FOR manufactures
which they now demand.
TIE capacity Of Africa being thus well ascertain
3D. il must BE- evident that ito resources can DE- de-
veored without any greater effort than was required
to develop thv-e Of our own cotton region. British
science, perseverance,, aud capital will be brought to
bear as rnisrionares Oh behalf of human Freedom
while merely hboriDg to extend commerce and
manufactures. They behold millions OF men offer
ING to sell unlimited quantities Of what they want
TO buy, and to buy equal value Of what they have
to cell. They see thst the consumption OF Africa
will double The lumber Of their ooEs and factories,
extend their commerce, and multiply their wealth.
The Government is lending aid in many ways to
insure tho opening up Of Africa. Will re-
qure time to do it thoroughly, but that 1t will DO
dole may be regarded as foregone conclusion.
Enplands most sagacous minds predict that IN
few years the importation of African cotton will be
fit in the markets Of the world. But while this
agency to reduce prices is at work, another st our
very door will be found more speedy in its result.
Our policy Of destroying manufactures has driven
millions Ct men TO open farms in the West and
those srms have just yielded great crops to sink
ing market. These is perfect deluge of fooc;
having been destroyed, there are no
consumers The foreign market upon which the
farmers insisted on depending, has given way, and
they must contu ue to reduce the price Of their pro-
uc's below what similar products sell for Europe,
70 induce Europe to buy. Every period of high
prices has been followed by one oil low prices,
whether of heat or cotton. The farmers hay
ing had their seven years Of pecuniary plenty, are
now entering on their seven years of pecuniary
frmine 1t was 80 in 1910, when they rose up, to
wap and voted that tie deusion should end, and
nothing short Of a similar determination will give
them good times now. Cotton is subject to the
same law. The power of the farmer To purchase
cloth is gone, and as he buys less, so the
PLANTER will find il harder to sell his cotton, for
cotton cannot long maintain its price when -four is
low. A century ago England did what We are
doipg-depended on foreign countries for
market for her grain, and wheat went on declining
until it fell to nearly half dollar bushe the peO-
pie in the mean time consuming foreign manufac-
lures 50 exclusively that the Gerusns boosted OF
buying the skin of fox from the Engishman for
eroat while they resod him the tail for shilling.
But no sooner did England reverse her policy BY
making market at home, than wheat rose and fab
rics fell. She has never changed that reversal. In
this country We are continually witnessing crisis.
They come oftener thar formerly, and each one de-
presses prices lower than did its predecessor. We
are in the midtt of such crisis now, which has
sent wheat down to lower prices than h.d been
known for many years. Cotton has no inherent
vitality to resist the pressure Of this or any other
similar arrangement. 1t holds up longer than other
staples but its downward career cannot be averted.
It's turn will come next.