The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-03-07
The London Times OH Cotton.

In a late article on Lord BROUGHAMs re-
cent anti-American cotton and anti-American
Slavery speech, in Parliament, the London
Times, in the following pithy and comprehen-
sive style, takes the backbone all out Of Lord
BROUGHAM's argument, and leaves him Moth
ing but his sophistries to stand on:
Lord Brougha and the veterans of the old
anti Slavery Society. do not share delight at
this great Increase IN the employment of our home
population. Their minds are still scared by those
horrible stories WHICH were burnt in upon them in
their youth. when England was not only slave
owning. but even a slave trading State. Their
morse Is SO great. that the ghost OF black man is
broken his shin and white man were III danger
Would Snd p the baes er
would draw the white man out Of the water. 1t is
not an inconsistency the retore. that while see
only cause OF cong ratuatlon IN this wonderful in
crease of trade, Lord Brougham sees in 1t the
sggeratlon OF an evil he never ceases TO depore.-
upon society as Providence allows IT to exlst-tO
mend it when we can, but not to distress rselves
imnOderataly Tor evils which are not OF our crea
ton-we see only the free and intgent English
families who thrive upon the wages which these
the black Laborers who, the other side of the
Atlantic. pick the cotton pods in slavery. Lord
brong ham depores that IN this tremendous impOr-
talon of u thousand millions of pounds of cotton
the lions share of the profits goes to the United
stead of twenty three millions the United States
now send us eight hundred and thirty millions, ind
this is al cultivated by slaves 1t is very sad that
this should he so, but We do not see way to a
remedy. There seems to be rather a chance of it's
becoming worse. If rance, who is already NOV
ing EDWARDS IN a restless, blind state, should
open her eyes wide, should give herself fair p
b. accepting our Goals iron and machinery, and.
,nou.d take to manufacturing upon large scale,
then these three millions Will not be enough
duce of Georgia and South Carolina The
jump which the consumption Of cotton in
I'm and has Enf rtA
are a thousand millions of mankind upon I'll tho
clad IN cotton. Every year new tribes and new
nations are added to the category of cotton wear
ply of this universal necessity will for many years
yet to come fail to keep pace with the demand and
men to whom cotton is bread, we must continue to
hope that the United States will be able to supply
bought of them in years past. Let us raise up an
other market says the anti slavery people So
say we all But even Lord Broug ham would
not ash us to believe that there is any proximate
hope that the free cotton raised in Africa Will
within any reasonable time, drive ont of culture
the save-grown cotton of America. If this be so,
OF what use can It be to make irritating speeches
IN the House of Lords against Il state of things by
which we are content to profit: Lord BrOugh ham
and Lord Grey are not men of such Illogical rninds
rs 20 be incapable of understanding that it is the
demand of the English manufacturers which slim
ulatGs the produce OF slave grown American Get
ton. They are neither of them, we apprehend, SO
reckless or so wicked IA to wish TO close facto-
RES and throw some two millions of our manufac-
turing population out of bread. Why, then. these
inconsequent and these irritating denun Citations
Let create fields of produce if we can; but,
meanwhile, It IS neither inst nor dignihed to buy
the raw material from the Americans, and to re-
vile them for pro'ucingIt."
This article is worth considering, not only
by Lord BRoUGBAM, but by men of his way of
thinking and sentiment TALKING in the United
States. The supremacy of cotton is fixed
fact, and the present enormous dema nd for it
is likely to increase rather than decrease. The
fanatics Of the tree States will not be permit
ted by the civilized world to modest the labor
upon which the supply Of a product essential
to the wants Of millions of the human family
depends.