, 1861-01-12
JOHN MITCHELL, on THE gCPpLToF COTTON
:, ,fR0Mi CHINA ANDjAFRICA.

JOIN MITCHELL on THE sCPpLToF COTTON
>\\yfl!Reolass els cH!AA !!s! AxDl ltrRlc4.
wnst tMhs:Aas1o.KreaS 1'tl!lhussez. : !
y. Chance for CeiestiaE Cottonx:-ad-
=. xanf1Eea of the tConntrT-Ehenp>
:, Labor rand no :Co6se1ence.:
lPaEts cof1espendsnee, By: John Mitchell, Of the
pAHas, December Is, 1890. :
= know not whether the Southern States Of
America arc fully conscious Of tho motives
aud intended consequeuces Of this grand ali.
clustering expedi ition.. The meaning :pf It, In
one Eo1a is hat Chin Is tha largest sotton: s
looms Of Europe arc bound, In come way or
other. In some quarter Of the globe or other,
to find mems or rendering themselves inde-
pendent Of Charleston and New Orleans, So
Eannah and Mobile. The allied darudea are in
Pektn, and have plundered tho palace 70 begin
rior-to some placa which they yngnely CALL
TaTtmy-whether beyonu the Wall Into Man-
uehnnrta, or merely into the western part Of
China proper, does not seem clearly ASCERTAIN
ed At all. events,he has avoided the notable
treaty, Which It .was tho ostenslblo object Of
the W TO iprce upon him. Ihe Englls1! press
bartaased BY this circumstance. What are NC
to do now: they cxclaIm. Who Is there now
to mako either: peace OF war with usr AL this
pretended embarrassment il mere "hypocricy.
Nothing could have happened more perfectly
oppottuhe. No consunmatton more dcvoutly
to be wished could hare crowned the cam
pAleI. -
already transport ships hare been dispatch
ed from England and from France with pro-
Visions, cfrfhfng, military. stores, everything
which could be conceived necessary to enable
the English and French to establish them
selves and take. complete possession Of the
country. They III pretend to BIO at their Wits
end tahat to do trth i. They are in as much
trouble of mind as were the English IN India
for several generations, while they found them
selves obliged gradually to 81 t'corquer India in
its own defence" is really distressing
case; but think they will find means to go
through with it. " '-
ns NsT chn e 4 tes R79a1sss sonss sEsR six
States put together-not Of. the finest kind, IN
deed, but Of the sort of which nankeen is
made in which about tkrce hundred, millions
Of people arc clothed every day. Yet where
that cotton grows, 1t Is calculated that other
enat ena osi. sy stea 9se4sy 1y c;n sn he sb agn III
around the Hoan-Ho mud the Yang-tse-Kiau
rivers, ase certalnly as capable Of producing
the most valuable kinds Of thut useful plant
as: arc the valleys Of the Mississippi md the
Alabama Labor also Is far more abundant,
md costs literally nothing ut all. Once the
country is subjected, English cotton-growers
may have man J millions Of laborers, all anz-
ions to work for their bare subsistence; for
'What would subsist one negro would be lux
urious supply for five Chinamcn. Tho China-
men, too, will be apprentices, not slaves tho
spirit Of the age forblds-and so there will he
no obligations to care for them, to feed and
clothe thcm,' when tho work IS got out of
Tn khr \ Inn hpfF Inn
on those two rivers, you may bid adlen to the
Liverpool and Manchester markets ; and that's
the meaning Of this China war.
There is difficulty in the way: the French
are on tbs ground aud have done half the
york The problem Is, how to get rid Of these
sRs as eooI oSdGn OF e noc2R o; tRedSss 5k
Lord Elgin may think need1ul to do, or to
leave unlone; IS 1t there were no such person
In the world Us Baron Gros. Undoubtedly the
English rely upon their superior experience in
the East, and imagine that they will be ableto
get rid Of their French allies, now that their
work is done but there may be some Difficult.
undertaken such distant and costly enter
prise merely to extend the British market for
opium, and to give the British absolute pos
session Of that wonderful cotton country. The
French Government has been quite as prompt
rs the English In dispatcllng supplies aud
"IenA1l tus 4.sst 1e" aSyo LWo Eteat transport
ships have departed for Ch1na; more ore to
follow. How those two fllibustering allies arc
to arrange the matter, rs between themselves,
1t is hard to speculate. Let Us leave upon them
oil the onus OF that. But the moral Of the sto-
~ for the Southern States is hot hard to fndi.
cate:-1t means, I suppose, that they must cs-
tab1ish aud vlndieatc, morally and politically,
their own national Industry, must free It from
au restrictions imposed by political relations
at home, aud By 4 Else public opinion abroad;
must develop and bring to perfection, fearless
II, the boundless capabilities of their own
magnificent country; mud SO, having long e1-
per1ence, strong win, and {aboyc ally posses.
triumph over oil pa1ty phllanthropic philan-
dering Of d feeble age, but lead, settle and gov
crn nll the relations between capital and indus
try in tropical and suhtropical countries.
You are aware that the pretended mission
ary," but real cotton explorer and Manchester
bagman, DR.. Livingston, Ia now again prowling
oyer Eastern Africa, with cateshsnls in bis
pockets and religion In his mouth (from the
teeth out), but ''cotton-suppiy" in his heart.
The sole object OF his mission Is to ind cot
ton 1nnds, and to discover some way of getting
the people to work them for supply Of Man
chester. You are also no doubt nwarc that tho
cotton-supply folks 1atter themselves they.
have made good beg inning Of cotton trade
with Abbookutch, among the Yaruba people;
but you probably have not seen the affection.
tionate letter written by the 'tAftican Aid So
ciety" to His Majsty King Bahadung Of Daho-
mcy: Ills Majesty has Been sacrificing vast
numbers Of his good useful hands, in honor Of
his deceased brother, to whom he was SO ten
tlcrly attached that seventeen hundred Of his
people, dubbed to death over the cherished
grave, do not get seem enough. 4 tithe Of thc
number would have been enough to do honor
to the dear deceased il they stood at pretty
fair price but owing to the restrictions placed
upon the trade by foreign barbarians, his Ma
jesty's slaves are 20 reduced in value that it
talses great many Of them to make up prct-
ty decent sacrifice to go august corpse.