Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1860-02-28
COMMON SENSE,

The London Times, lin article much an the
vein of one IN the Express, the other day,) on
Lord Brougbam recent snta-Amerscan cotton and
anti-American slavery speech in Parliament, in a
few words takes the backbone all out of his ar
rrrmcnt and leaves him aothing but his sophis-
tries to stand on, thuss
Lord Brougham and the veterans Of the old Anti
Slavery Society (says the editor do n" share de
light at ths great increase in the employment of our
home population. Their minds still scared by
those torTI stories which burnt in upon them
in thrir youth when England w;ls not only IL slave
owning but slave-tradln25 State Their renUrse is
great that the ghost Of Il b ack man is always be
fore them. They are benevolent and excellent peo-
a,,e; but if black man happen to have broken his
~Hln, AMI II "h'te man were III Danger ol drowning
we much f:arthat an nti-Savery Zcalot would bind
llp blu mans leg before he would draw white
lnau out of the water. 1t is not an Inconsistency
therefore, that while only cause of congratu
4ation in this wonderful increase of trade, Lord
BrUug ham 'es in 1t the eXaggerlton of an evil he
never ceases to deplore We, and such IS we, who
are content look upon society Providence allows
it to exfst-to mend it when can, but to di~-
tress ourselves nmoGcrately TO- evils which not
"f creatun--we only the free and intelligent
English families who thrive upon the wages these
cotton bales produce. Lord Brougham only the
black Iaborers who the other side of the Atlantic
pick the cotton pods i'll slavery. Lord Broug ham
'eplores that i'll this tremendous Importation of "a
Thousand million of pounds of cotton. the lions
share of the profits to the United States and has
been produced by slave labor Instead of twenty
three millions the United States send us eight
hundred and thirty millions, and this is all cultivated
by slaves. 1t is very sad that this should be so, but
do not way to a remedy. There seems to
be rather chance of its becoming worse. If
France, who is already moving onwards in Il restless
pnrbnd state. should open her eyes wide should
give herself tair play by accepting GOALS iron,
and machinery, and, under the stimulus of Il
wholesome competition, should take to manufac-
turing upon large SCALE then these three millions
will not be enough. France will be competing with
us in the foreign cotton markets, stimulating still
further the produce of Georgia and South Carolina.
The jump which the consumption of cotton in Eng
lHp6 as Is Olp lean lrh
be repeated indefinitely. There q thousand mil
lions of mankind upon the globe, all of whom be
most comfortably clad in cotton. Every year new
cotton There is every to believe
that the supply of this universal necessity will for
many years yet to come fail to keep pace with the
demand and in the interest of that large class of
tnue to hope that the United States will be able to
supply in years to with twice much as we
bought of them IN years past. - Let us raise up
another Market, says the nti-Slavery people So
say all. r But even Lord Brougham would not
ask to believe that there is any proximate hope
that the free cotton raised in Africa will within any
reasonable time drive out of culture the slave grown
cotton of America If this be SO, of what use can it
be to make irritating speeches in the House of Lords
against state OF things by which content to
profit Lord Brougham and Lord Grey not men
of such illogical minds to be incapable of under
standing that it is the demand of the English manu-
facturers which stimulates the produce Of slave grown
American cotton. They neither of them, we ap-
prehend, reckless wicked to wish to close
our factories and throw some two millions of
utacturng population out of bread. Why then these
inconsequent and these irritating denunciations Let
us create new fields of produce if can but,
while, 1t is neither Just dgnified to buy the
material from the Americans, and to reviIe them for
producing it.
Hard facts, these, and put with force that must
be felt to some advantage, trust, in Exeter
Hall.-N. Y Express.