The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-05
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SATURDAY MORNING. ), 1851
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CerreS We may begin very soon 70 wit
,,cssthe tr., symrtoms of the coming cotton
nam, in England The sudden blotting OF,
ta,.a a.aons nations of such important mem
.sas II .ae finally Of communities as the clever
,scx of Toe southern Coufederacy, cannot
n. .si,,c,. S.och more or less se ere upo,
II faocsc OF the worlds commerce ant
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,,e o,'.-.,csn States OF this CnnfHderac
...re /, . oaly region of the world that fur
.>,.ed more cet,oa 10 Europe than ii receive,
,.'.cs l.. 1ssi1c, Ese,a o,aer cotton producing
regiou OF The easth seat less cotton 10 tn,
fr..as of Great Britain and the continent. tina.
i,t.sucarei liz .,,e machinery IN anu taetured "a
1slcr OF taat article. Their purchases of cot
..s1s frula Manchester, in fabric, were greater
-. their Sizes of il Ia Manchester. la staple
The sur, las to supply lis excess of denano
t.,a.a ali otae' nations, was obta,ned by Man
tstes er from our cotton States, Rice was the
Saae # fndis, just as TIE potato was the curse
Of Ire and II made living cheap, aud multi
p.ied population un,il i, swarmed as the
locusts in Egypt daring the scripiural plague
The teeming population of India taxed its
agriculture to its utmost capacity, and left il
capable of supplying nothing beyond the food
necessary for SO many mouths, and the indif
ferent cotton requisite for covering the naked
meas Of 40 many backs OF course country
whose agriculture was thus burdened, coad mol
furnish staple for the surplus clothing of NOR,
thinly populated regions, Ii sent. indeed, cot
ton to Great Britain. but it sent it there onl,
f,r the purpose of exchange fer cotton good
manufactured by the cheap agency of machin
cry. II seat TO Europe less cotton than it re-
ce.ved back, in pounds, OF the manufactured
fabric: j, required more cotton for clothing
thar it could raise.
The case was the same, for somewhat siu.i-
lar means, with China, a country as heavily
oyer5urdened 90 India with a population
which taxed all the resources of Its agricrl-
ture for its support SO also was tho >ase tie
saline in tie cotton producing regions Of Africa
where. though the population was less redun-
dSnt, the agriculture was primitive. rude, and
fer less productive. In order &c get cotton
from Africa in quantity. a Furnishing ..gricuL
ture mus. first be established; aud in order 10
.his, its jungles and low, alluvia soils rlust be
settled by waite race, that shall! be proof
axains, the most malignant types of yellow
fever found in all the world. There IL much
talk in Europe of adopting measures for Sc
curing An adequate supply of cotton from other
. sources than the Confederate States hut the
talk all ends in words; they can't get the cup
DIV, for the reason we have explained The
agriculture of India and China cannot afford
it; the agriculture of less heavily populated
regions of the earth is too primitive and rude
to produce it,
There js still smother reason, The cotton of
all other countries than the Confederate States
il defective in quality The seasons in those
regions are divided into. the acet and the dry;
and the cotton raised in the dry season OF those
countries is SO inferior as to amount to almost
different species of plant The seasons in
the Confederate States are not thus divided
On the contrary, the quantity of rain falling
in the summer season when the cotton is grow
ing is greater than during any other season,
being treaty-oas inches, whereas the average
for the other seasons is only about fifteen. The
delicious sweet potato raised i'll Eastern Hir-
cinia becomes another, and a wrerehed, half
rotten, iu.ipid root when reared in the lime
stone soil. of the West. The cotton of the
South is long, silky, white staple: that of
India and China short, woody, stiff, yellow,
deterrent sort of thing England cannot sup
ply her customers with the quality OF cotton
cloth. they require, except by manufacturing
it wholly or at Ast in the proportion OF halt
Shp
cannot get the supply OF cotton required from
any other source than the South, hnt she CAN
not get the quality Of sta le absolutely indis-
pensible to her.
Europe must have our Southern cotton. and
she cannot get it until she recognizes us. for
two reasons. She eaInot pay gold for our
cotton as che would have 10 DO directly or ir.
directly, if she obtained it clandestiI ely III
violation of the blockade. No country could
stand a trade which required her to pay gold
on her side for staple on the other. To prot
cure our cotton in quantity, England must no.
only open our ports for the egress of the cot
ton, but also open them for the ingress of the
merchandise she would have TO pay for them
In exchange. All international commerce is
barter There may be balances one side or
the other to he settled in specie; but, az to
the great bulk of trade, il is system Of barter
and barter only Great Britain could not get
our cotton in the quantities requisite TO her
purposes if our ports Were wide open for lis
egress, except on the condition that tley were
also wide open for the ingress of the re-
turn cargoes Of merchandise
The South, therefore, is master of the si,ua.
ton; cotton is King. Europe cannot afford to
lose the southern market for her manufac-
factnres We bought ourselves, and enabled
the Yankees to buy, IN aggregate for both, of
TWO hundred millions Of European merchan-
aizs with our cotton crop. Europe cannot af-
ford 70 lose this rarkei, for two reasons
To strike of two hundred millions from her
sales Of manufactures would throw out Of EN-
ployment many nillions IF her operatives;
ana would also deprive her Of the means Of
bu, ing an equivalent quantity of cotton for
her factories The South is mistress of the
situation. She can stand the blockade longer
than Europe or the North
Sr.Is AND THE UNITED STATEs-CoN-
Her Most Catholic Majesty will feel sorely
aggrieyed when she learns that the New York
Herald, in consequence of the courtesy
tended by the Captain General Of Cuba to the
Confederate flag, threatens the Spanish Gov
ernment with the annihilatinr vengeance of