New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-14

q eAf ~ cultivated with snccess tfpS;,, Ont
+ks sssoca't.Vs .ts,inU success. To say nothing OF
sPospec. .r;ca which our Minister CONSIDERS Nc Ia
CeoIs ., the culture Of cotton az any COUNT ~ 90 ~
West indies Of Brazil when pos ses ,hs rrs
s Of tho Esg "a o ssrl on he NORTH toe A
sss eCu,;,snt where the cotton plant Is J;a
on OoDr nrs Ia rapidly spreading there Is u iha.s
sn9 I u.s. aIone-oountIes in which COTTON pas
ss0oSystsd from time immemors,I ,ss World. re-
70 IDe ,fsen letter two months ago. from .e i;aS
,be first banking houses IN Engiapu' 20 os,on
o. 1S me that half million OF pues 81
Ssyond the supply OF the las. year, vanity. know
g hb as much more NAV not DO furnlsheu llon
S1; II Is true that though abe grows Nas' 9"ba a.
80; berself she draws at present smai' pau - 49,
resumption from India Bot her eluaSe sba has
s local conditions is identical WIN oars, u
'aSundanee of lator and with an effective ueuAoS'
..r NO doubt furnish an unlimited quanuy ~ 80
.t,lion. Large supplies are expec'su nJ Iauy INTO
rbere the regning Prince has entered co'n";aion'"
a. views Of the Cotton-Supplyng As seS: 10.
hs aitenton Of the local Government o.
g., cslled 10 the subject, and besds sli tne hst
a surny in the OH World Austram con'ad oirsady
AZ territory admirably adapted TO 9o''on 'assntime
&C lively engaged in its culture. SEASONS stock
49, 10 elvsys on hspd in advance 49, n,;,h
S .f.ctn,e d article, OF general nse, ~nisn, a.
Shs Increased supply OF The raw nia aean;ann. from
W., will prevent any serious incoo. .t. sor t.
the re Of the A%si 5,a ss though the Obstruc
ti a. ,h American market occurred too late 10 take
ri sfs-t in Egypt and India the present year,
prszil and South Africa, and Australia are on the
cher aide of the line, and their planning ssas1h
~ a,1sntly ak months behind ours Should the
S,utb unwisely protract the war for the second
rar. all further DEPENDENCE upon her VIII
,s5 lie King Cotton will BE- as etectualIy dethroned
a. the 10 rbons ard the Stnsrs; sno Eeh1rSi AiSls'
he West Indies Africa Egypt, Syria, India, China,
and Australia viii feed the looms OF tie world tiii our
SshreA at the South shall return TO their Senses ana
Be willing again to live under the Government, when
their most intelligent statesmen, last November DC
dared TO be the beet and most benefcent which history
gives US an account of. AS American patriots LOOKING
with an equa eve to the interests OF the whole eou
ty des Jag still the welfare Of the South as tncee
sS Gus own, We cannot but regret result winch VIII
no Doubt to some ent be permanent. But we must
admit that the Lesson Wac needed by our misguided
fslIow-c,ize s. and that the lasting welfare OF Tue
whole Union will be promoted, when they shall have
AWAKENED from the Ge0son, that the prosperity VI the
civilized world depends upon their cotton crop.
H. fact when we consider the influence on the public
ssptmeDt of the South OF the exeusiou of the cotton
culture The perncious delusion just mentioned, aud its
disastrous aitemI to break up The Union, at the cost
Of civil war of unexampled magnitude, We cannot
avoid The conclusion that IL would have been better,
greatly better for herself and the world thai not bale
q cotton should ever have npened within ner hnlts
in that she should have acquired the fancied monop
uy of il. Tie events which are passing before our
,s give sad significance TO the remark OF an ancient
Roman author: III we are willing 10 own the trnth,
4 i the great plantations which, having ruined Italy,
ere now also running the provinces
Should Cotton succeed IN the uDhalowed effort 10
break up the Union, it may be truly said that would
have been thousand times better that their husbandy
Ike yours should have been exeasvely devoted 10 the
sua articles of agricultural produce adapted to their
.eimste raised on farms OF moderate dimensions, and
tled by the industrious and energetic hands OF free
mon in the majority Of the proprietors OF their own
fee-simIle acres: This, sod O. he wholesale product
ions Of the tropical staples s the kind Of hastsndry
which in all ages has been regarded US the basis OF pub
Tic prosperity and the OF private virtue; whose
Benefits roralists have taught; whose praises poets
have sungi and to which great and good men, famous
CAPTAINS and iIustrous statesmen tired of the conflicts
politics and war; have repaired as TO ahaFbor oil rel
Best lee the deplorable influence Of supposed mo-
nopOy of cotton, the indirect cause Of the present
civil war and if that war should attain Its object, The
IormsHent disruption Of the Union, which would
Internationally prove one Of the greatest caiamies
thst ever befe the civilized world, II Will 10 all human
probability, lead TO another result, equally shocking
70 the public sentiment of the ageI mean the reopen.
Ing of tie African slaveirade. II is well known and
freely admitted at the South, that great change in
public opinion has been gradually taking place IN that
part Of the country on all subIects relating TO slavery
1biry years ago, il was habitually and generally
goken Of as an evil entaed upon US by the parent
country of which it now difficult, If not imPos-
Ebie TO rid ourselves while the African slave-trade
was as generally and as severely denounced at the
South as the North. TIE law by which 1t 10 made
piracy was passed under Southern President and
Cabinet and Congress controlled by Southern infu-
ences. But with the immense expansion OF the cotton
cultures aud the Introduction OF that Of sugar great
change of public opinion with respect both TO Slavery
and the slaveIrade, has taken place at the
South. Slavery is now warmly claimed as
the cornerstone of the new Confederaeyi and
"A the only possible relation in which The two races
can stand to each other, with benefit to ether while
che change with respect TO the African sayetrade,
though not probably go decided and general, Is III
marked and rapid progress 1t lie true the Confederate
Congress has prohibited TINS uahe; Inns was zone
before Virginia or any other Of the Border States bad
ioned the Coniederacy and 1t was accompanied by
3 law prohibiting the introduction OF slaves
from States not belonging to 1t. Now the do
raestie slave-.rade is OF immense Importance TO
Esstern Virginia, and proportionatly to all the
bor]er States. 1t sbsorbs no small part OF the
rcrease Of their colored population and in doing,
beside the pecuniary return, It susains the value
Of Tie rosidne. One hundred slaves was informed,
are daily cent TO the South from Richmond. This num-
Der must, think, be overstated though given 10 me
BY very intelligent citizen Of that place. ln this
gsie Of things the Simultaneous prohibition OF the
African and the domestic slave-trade by the Confed-
crate Congress understood, and IN substance de-
card TO be at the time, OF q threat and bride
addressed to the Border States, and particularly TO
tiriua, and her unhapply, ltproduced Its effect.
But that the prohibition o. the foreign savetrade VIII
be preserved in should the revoted States succeed IN
establishing their independence, there is not the
slightest probability. Some of the leaders of Secs
a0n are known 10 be In favor OF reopenlng II.
Wien successfully attempted last year, by lawless
sdyenturers, they were effectuslly screened
from Justice; ana the statute Of the Confed.
sate Government forbicding il denounced at the
lime Of y passage by The leading press OF South Caro-
lua While il i certainly true thai, when the sub
Jet was last agated many intelligent persons in the
Soaibern States opposed the introduction into the
country OF the undivided natives Of Africa, II ls not
tie les that ne current Of opinion is running rap
Idly ia the opposite direction. There is not the slight