Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-23

together, of less than 10000; disturbed, b,
the decay of the riband trade. = The charity
of the whole kingdom, layishiy bestowed
has just sufliced to keep the sufferers from
starving till spiing or fashion shall bring re-
lief Take these examples, and apply the de.
duction to the cotton manufacture. Instead
of few thousands, imagine 100000 peo
pie in trcpidation and distress. What sub
scriptious, what society, what poorptes, what
police courts could meet such case as that
Where could the relief come from? Recol
lcct that, while so much national industry
would be paralyzed, SO much national wealth
would be also lost We should be doing one,
third less trade, and who can tell how far the
mere panic incidental to suchan unpreccdcnt,
cd crisis might not aggrovote the realities Of
the peril? @ f.eGtE IA
There is not an hour to be lost in providing
against this tremendous danger. TO put tic
case in the mildcst form, thrce-fourths of our
cotton supply has become uncertain, one-third
Of our trade is in jeopardy, and the earnings
of one sixth of our population may be ren.
dercd precarious. Are not these facts enough
to set us at work with will? Not doubt
exists about the resources at our command
Cotton can be grown almost as commonly as
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arc now we'll understood, and the proper meth
ods of cleaning and packing can be easily
taught. The rest is the work of year Oh
two Since the publication of our last re-
marks on this sujcct we have received com
munication from one of the societies interested
in African civilization, informing us that the
progress of cotton cultivation at Abbcokuta,
as actually and authcntically recorded, is such
as to match the beginnings of every Ameri-
can enterprise In 1850, that obscure
though productive region, sent about half a
bale of cotton to England. In 1855 this
modicum had been increased about forty-fold,
and in 1850 it actually amounted to 1000
bales. We are assured that the district could
easily grow cotton enough for the consump-
ton of all Lancashire, and we arc asked
whether the introduction of skilled negros
from the United States would not soon give to
us a new Charleston on the African coast p
From India the offers arc the same If in
1907 India could send u.s. as she did, $50 900
bales, it is fair enough to presume that under
the pressure and with the encouragement of
strong demand, size could raise her supplies
to 100000 balcs-nearly half of our i'm
mediate wants. Then, again, there is Aus
tralia, actually inquiriug for staple article Of
produce, and dcsirous of nothing better than
to be set cotton growing for England We
do not dsscmble the particular difficulty OF
the case. We have repeatedly observed, and
we acknowledge once more, that America has
got the call of the market 1t is not that
her advantages might not be cquallcd in the
end by those of Australia or India; but al
present she enjoys all those facilities of or
ganlzation and traffic which would have to be
created elsewhere. The creation would be
perfectly practicable, but it has still to be ac
complishcd, and in the meantime there is the
old, established firm, with its capital, its con
ncxions, and all that makes business profta
bic, yet undamagcd. Nobody can say, how
ever, that the security will last a month, and
besides that, our national interests call i'm
pcratively for new supplies 1t is worth re-
flecting that if tho agriculture of the slave
States should be ruined, there will be trade
of $40 100000 year to be picked up by
some other countries