The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-12

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The Cotton Qucstion-Cotton and Labor In
Africa.
For some time past the English philanthropists
of the Exeter Hall school, having utterly failed
to produce either cotton or sugar in large guam
titles through an enlightened free black peasant
ry in the West Indies, have given up their Ame-
rican experiments in sociology and turned their
attention to the Development Of Africa Sum
dry expeditions have been fitted out by benevo-
lent England to that benighted continent aud
all of them have been marked with pretty near
ly the same results. There is an abundance Of
excellent cotton growing land, and plenty
of cotton of indigenous growth, though, it
is confessed, of very poor quality and staple
when compared with our "uplands" The ma
tives gather small quantities of it, which they
manufacture into coarse kind of cloth; but here
their industry stops. Our Exeter Hall friends
''expect much improvement, both in the quality
and quantity Of this cotton, from careful cultiva
tion" but, sad to say this happens to be just the
point where the Exeter Hall opponents of soci-
ology fail: how to make Quashee cultivate cotton
and sugar more largely and more carefully, or,
in palmer terms, how to make Quashee work.
Louis Napoleon, having taken practical view
of this great question, and with full knowledge
Of the complete failure of the philanthrophic
theory Of Exeter Hall, says the only way
is to export him from his native AT
RIGA, as an APPRENTICE for ten years,
L. I'll c. H. L.
his ships and officers to the coast, and they enter
into a competition for the purchase of likely
young negroes with the Cuban slave traders.
This runs the price up from twenty or twenty
five dollars to fifty, and in some cases one hun
bred dollars q head when the French and
Spanish dealers, finding this against their ia-
terest combine and the latter is again left alone
in the market, on condition of supplying the
French traders with free apprentices and the
Cubans with slaves on equal terms. In this way
Louis Napol got the 10000 negroes he re-
quired to try the Experiment of making Quashee
work in Martinique and Guadalupe. The thing
being seen through, he agrees to stop awhile
and think over the propricty of the matter, pro-
vided England will agree to I'LL up with coolies
the French islands in the Indian ocean, Just as
he had filed up with negroes those in tho
West Indies. His theory of making Quashee
work did not suit Exeter Hall and my Lord
Brougham.
Rev. Doctor Livingstone, one Of Exeter Halls
African explorers, found the same state of facts
there which we have recited above-plenty of
cotton lands, plenty Of cotton growing on them,
and plenty of niggers, even in state Of slavery,
where they could be made to work. He ex-
planned this condition of things when he re-
turned to England, and endeavored to answer
the question how Quashee could be made
to work. His solution Of the problem
was, in substance, that white men must be sent
out to Africa 10 instruct the boss nggers how to
make the slave niggers work, for the one had no
more brains than the other. This did not set
well on the Exeter Hall stomach; for what it de-
mands is the solution of the problem, g How
Quashee can be made to grow plenty of good
sugar and cotton without making him work"
So DR.. Livingstone and Exeter Hall split and he
has thrown off his gown and band and returned
to the Zambesi as Consul and trader, under the
protection of certain Manchester utilitarisns
who want cotton, good and plenty Of it, and do
not care fig for the niggers
The result Of all these explorations and ex-
periments is the same everywhere. Ia
multitude of places cotton and sugar lands
are found. The cane and the gossypiam
exist in abundance and under numerous con
ditions of Indigenous growth. But in order
TO produce the sugar and cotton of commerce
other combinations than those of productive land
and natural growth are required. Science must
bring Its inventive skill from the most cultivated
mental resources of the fever-brained white man,
industry must contribute its boarded wealth in
the shape Of capital, and the negro must COM
bine with all these his semi-intelligent labor,
guided by his feverless brain, beneath the burn
ing sun of the tropical and semi-tropical re-
gions. The highly developed staples Of
sugar and cotton, as now required BY
the uses of four hundred millions OF
civilized men, are the results Of the most irltri-.
cate and artificial combinations of human pcxer,
with natural laws, on large scale, known 10 the
world. They are nowhere the result Of natural To-
cal elements alone; and the phianthropists ,fExa-
ter Hall may search the globe from now 10 ete7-
nifty, and they will no more find them % indigo
nous products than they will find the cloths of
Manchester growing on trees in soma favored
cline.
Thus far their misguided efforts have resulted
only to the prejudice of society in its material
Development, and, as natural consequence, to
its intellectual advancement. It is an admitted
axiom that the Development Of human know
ledge is inseparable from the progress of indus
try and of national wealth; and wherever these
decay science and civilization wane, ana
man relapses into state of unproductive
barbarism. These great truths Il was that
forced the French to seek negro apprentices
| in Africa and the English bond laborers in In