Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-28
King Cotton


 Cotton is king, but kings are depose9 We have heretofore alluded to the str nuous efforts made to transfer the seat of empire of king cotton to other lands. It is true that cotton yet commands a high price, and the demand continues equal to the supply. But both England and France t are determined to grow cotton and own slaves. They are formidable rivals. We take the following from that sterling paper the Southron Field and Preside, and re- mark that the facts given are few of hun dreds of the same kind that meet us at every turn:
 Cotton Culture in Cuba.
 The Havana correspondent of the Char leston Courier, writing under date of June 10th, says: "The British consul general will be en route to England before this reaches you, to promote the interests of the i cotton growing company, in England, and other European countries. Soyour cotton growers must be on the look out, or Cuba will drive them from some of the European markets. 1 do not write this in jest, but with more of sorrow than any other feel | ing"
 I That a we'll concerted and powerful effort | is about to be made to grow cotton on a large scale on that fertile island, is fact worth considering. Coolie labor, obtained at mere nominal price, is to be used to cultivate the plant, and as the supply of the Asiaticos is ten-fold larger than that of the | 44tricons would be, if free trade existed alike in both, slave holders have far more to fear from this new source of competition than is generally believed. In the same letter this correspondent says:
 1.-The French ship Alexandre arrived on the 27th ult., from Macoa via St. Helena, in one hundred and ninety-fve days, with three hundred and ninety-seven Asiaticos free colonists,' conSigned to Messrs. Fer nandez & Schimper, of this city. There were 37 deaths on the passage. The American ship Live Yankee arrived 2d inst, from Macao via the Cape of Good Hope, in eighty-eight days, with seven hundred and eighty light Asiaticos. She had but twelve deaths on the passage"
 When every '' live Yankee" is able to bring seven hundred and eighty eight labor ing people from China in eighty-eight days, ready to engage at once in the cultivation of cotton, in every West India island, and in Central America, 1t is easy to see how a powerful competition may grow up in our immediate vicinity in the production of this great southern staple. Our exclusion of both Coolies and negroes operates as a bounty on the importation of both Afri- cans and Asiatics, into Cuba, to grow the crops which might enrich our own agricul- turists, our commerce, and our manutactu- rers. We copy from the Courier, another paragraph from the pen of the same writer:
 ''On the Both ultimo, about half past } P. M., quite crowd was attracted to the wharf to see bark lowed in by the Regla steamer Jir, whose crew only consisted of two or three persons; she proved to be oul old acquaintance, the J J. Cobb, of New York, which sailed last December on a pre- tended legal voyage to the coast of Africa, but which legal voyage, there Is ample proof on board of her, was for a cargo ot slaves, which had been landed and the bark was then abandoned She was found de relict twenty-five miles from land, the pan of Matanzas bearing $. $. w., by the schooner Cumberland, of New York, who brought her to this port, where she now IS The bark Ardennes, about which so mucl was said and written near the end of last year, is also expected daily to arrive from the coast of Africa, with a cargo of Afri- cans. Thus, the stars and stripes have again, ia two instances, been used as shield to protect the Spanards in the Afr can slave trade'
 Taking all the facts together, as prasent ed in the current history of Cuba, they furnish much food for grave reflection. Be yond all question, a double slave trade ex lsts--carried on between China and Cub by Hive Yankees" and between Cuba an Africa, under the folds of '' the stars. an stripes" The present policy of the Unite States creates and sustains this double trat1i in persons held to service; and who will sa that our system has improved one odiou feature of the slave trade as it existed sixt years ago? What is to be the final resul o1 the constant importation of cotton grow CTS from Africa and Asia into all parts c the New w orld, where the climate is adapt ed to the production of this great staple except into the southern States? We pre- sent the naked facts as furnished from . reliable source, for the consideration of in telligent reader.. We may close our eyes but that will not extineuish the light o day.