Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-12-28

hng Cotton IS mIghty monarch, and we
I all bow 1T his tO0tstOol But his majesty
has more than one kingdom, though his
4 chosen seat Just now Is in these states,
where, sure as they think themselves Of his
| favor, his subjects are about % smut of the
light Of his countenance from all the world
/ beside, except as they choose 10 dispense il.
| rays. The world, says the South. in speech
I es, IN m -ssages, and in mutiudin1us news
/ papers, Is mt our mercy. They need our
| cotton: they cannot trade without our cot
/ ton they cannot think, nor breathe. nor
eat. nor drink, nor have their being without
| our cotton. The North Terjshes without it :
/ the e>tIs reduced To a low diet Of her own
hog and h7niny without It Liverpool and
MlrClcsJ- VIII become bowling wilderness
! Is without It the coming New Z4alauder
Will sit upon London Bridge and ruminate
upon the ruins OF once mighty city, when
that city Is without il; the greatness of En--
land VIII perish in one loud cry Of desrair
for bread or blood, when she is deprived
OF our cotton ; France will gladly be our
yass1l and our thrall, and fight all our ba.-
Ties with all the world, if only we viii give
her cotton Cotton IS King. and the King
never dies
Cotton undoubtedly is Z "big thing" and
especially a dig thing" for the South. 1t
Is, however, a thing 50 big that she has
nothing else. From the swaddling-clothe Of
the baby to the shrOud Of the old man On
his bier from the contents Of the pan-sn0on
OF the little one to the caudlc-cup of the
aged sire from the iinsey-woolsey Shirt Of
the slave to the broade'oths and silks Of those
who buy them with his waces.-aIl that tho
South eats and drinks, all that she wears. all
her Inquiries, her comforts, her necessariss
come from cotton. She sells her cotton and
buys everything, or almost everything else
with the proceeds. Without cotton she has
nothing to buy with, and goes, a Spectacle
to the world, naked and hungry, with four
millions, especially, Of ravening black
creatures madly demanding their
peck sof corn and three pounds cf /
bacon each week, and the costly garment of I
Ilnsey-woolsey. The suppliaut world. in /
that case, is respectfully informed that
arge supply Oflong staple and short staple.
Of Sea Island and up-country, Is kept con-
SANITY on hand for sale, for cash or a prroreI
'redit, in quantities to suit customers. If
here be anything within the whole rance Of
commerce that must be sold for whatever It
Will bring, it IS cotton II there be anv peo-
Die on the civilized globe who are complete-
y at the mercy of all the rest, it is the cot
on-groWers. They are nothing and no.
where without customers. Meantime. the
Worth and the West, England and France.
ave thousand products Of q thousand
ranches OF industry, on the sea and on the
ana IN the soil and beneath the soil fruits :
the labor OF the hands, fruits of the labor
the head, wherewIth to supply consumu-
ION ana barter and exchange, to keep in
lpld motion the swift wheels of commerce :
meet tne never-eeaslng demands Of all HUI
ian wants. 1t would be inconvenient 70 q
DC world to be without cotton till 1t had
puma aSuostitute-as it speedily would [
u II Is not the world that would perish if I
mere was no cotton to be sold If Cotton is S
ing ne Is 8 terrible monarch to those who
e nearest 10 him, and no slaves are so ab-
CT as those who depend upon his nod for
10 breath OF life. And surely we of the
orth are not OF that class-we whose bav
oP alone is worth than all the cotton IF
lie South. "
But letus not blink tho fact tbat tho world a
'-d5 cotton. England does not blink II o1G Il
@ took OF this staple in IS3S-tho 49,
turns-o33, 237,776 pounds from ms
untry. She imported, also. from otLer
untrles the same year-from the East In il
Is and the West Indies, from Brazil Nj D
Franean' and elsewhere, pol ,I04 400 lbs. n
re Is remarkable tact TO be noticed and N
nen oered, That about one-ifth Of All She ! b'
su' aGcoFding to the last returns. comes 70
I, IN other countries than ours, and Il il de
Il more to be noted ard remembered that N
'orolng 10 the returns OF. flrmer wears is
e. Y. ne,supply from tie L. S. hfs n
'rt o. me demand, it is met BIZ an ircreas- v,
supply rom these other Countries. Thcss q.
: ho -I facts, and worth considering, Tor
y snow, htst that other regions than ouss
luz tuis important staple aud, second ".
' y the pest customer Of the South knows ten
! nef independence on this country may do
30 whenever she pleases.-Indepsndsat. for