New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-26
HOW TO DETHRONE KING COTTON.

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HOW TO DETHRONE KING COTTON.
AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Correspondence Of The Albany Evening Journal :, ,oco
DERBY, Conn, Dec. 10, 1861.
WHY cannot "King Cotton" DO dethroned III these
DAYS of revolution and Democracy
he fancies of our cotOn-raising brethren that tins
business ia close monOpoy-that they can add to It's
mice bv an export duty that shall fall solely upon the
Consumer and moreover, only sell II TO those VINO
agree with them with respect their domestic insti-
tuition force into the consideration OF the ways
and means of procuring cotton without being subjected
10 such restrictions. - -,
cotton of the world the remaining third being greatly
due 10 the exertons Of the English to promote It's cu
ture in their colonies and dependencies-a culture
which il steadily increasing.
We have no colonies TO foster but we have cur In
dependence in trade and manufactures to look alter
At our very doors-nearer to Ms than lexas-oh our
great route of communication with Cahiorma ana
7reeop-destined if wish it, to be Free States OF
this Confederacy-are the Central American States,
with cotton lands capable OF producing all that we
shall ever need and it only requires enterprise 10 DE-
bave in the past four or five years, travelled eX
tensyely in Central and South America, and hazard
nothing in saving that there is more unoccuped land
eensble of producing cotton well as those OF IeXas
outside of our Union south Of U.S. than IN the wnoie
prea Of the projected Cotton Contederaey met II,
indigenous in Venezuela New-Granada and the Cen
eral American States, and IN all THESE countries Tue
Peru, Venezuela, end New-Grsnads, and know not
how many States beside, export cotton OF very snpe-
rior quality. When on the isthmus few weeks since
500 baes went over the railroad, coming from Peru
and destined for England A sample OF tnls cotton
had priced here and told that although badly
Qinned II Of very fine staple ana lls value Ia Inv
srpool in that imperfect condition, would be 10 cents
In Venezuela are immense fields for the development
of its culture and the great delta Of the Ornoeo Is I'M
1o,,da cultivated
in he rich valley Of Aragaa near Valencia and was
told that from 800 900 TO 400 900 bales weighing from
$50 TO go ID were exported mostly to Germany ana
that its price IN Vaenta from Is TO IA cents per
pound. y o..
ada are capable Of producing excellent COTTON, ana
til lately superior quality, only INFERIOR was tou
70 Sea Island, raised ior eAportatl0h at Dan
Reuito aud exported from Carthagena, l have seen
the expectation of cotton some thirty years since from
New-Grsnada put down at lVV,OOO 1aes ahnu4ly'
Little l. now exported or cultivated, presume, al
though saw growing luXuranlIy, and Id use among
the Teotle The States on the Magdaena having
seeded from the COnfederaCy lately, and having been
engaged in consequence IN war with me General
(oye1ment for some months past there Is little done
in the way Of cultivation Of 1t or ything the fields
being devastated or abandoned laborers dispersed,
either to m tie ranks Of the revolutionary army or to
the woods 10 avoid that fate and the people ruined by
their leaders, hoping 10 be relieved by conquest
from the politicians who were preying upon their Sub
stance With peace have no doubt, cotton could be
lly and protably cultivated, and, III large
quantities, IN these States.
Mexico abOunds in rich cotton lands, not alone On the
fiulf but Oh the West Coast. considerable amount
Of machinery il being shipped now from New fork for
Acapulco destined for cotton cleaning III that neigh
borhOoc
The great desideratum in all these States is labor
Organised labor. The constant revolutions which seem
endemic with our Hispano-Amer neghbOrs have
destroyed men and enterprise, and have back emgra-
ton without which even in our cotton growing States
q The white will become eueryafed and decredse
say, then, that with labor and emigration the sup
ply Of cotton from the Hspano-American States il IL
Eitable; and say too, that Yankee enterprise, once
turned in this direction, it win be rased the world
wants-n a cheaper way than at present and without
ylaye labor And Il is time set about it..
The remarkable results Of the Kansas Emigrant aid
Association IN placing thousands from our Eastern
States in that Territory are fresh in minds. What
might be accomplished then when with the efforts Of
those Of tie philanthropc school touching slave labor
we combine those Of the practical school Of interest,"
profit ard independence OF I" hing Cotton =
China, with its overcroYded population, lacking
labor AID means Of subsistence, lies opposite Central
America. Emigrants thence can be landed on Its
shores quickly and as cheaply as those from Ger
many TO our Atlantic States and adapted 10 tropical
labor ard the culture Of cotton they be hired for
one-hf'h d what we pay the Celtic Saxon inpoa-
'iiOn here.
There is prejudice TO cOohe importation, know,
growing out OF the atrocities committed, am sorry
say too often, under fag and by called respect
able merchants, who have lent Themselves 10 kdnap-
ping ecobes for the Cuba market. Bat these owing
tea aCs Of proper laws and regulations both on onr
cwn site and in Cuba, without which the coolie
fn fic Il bot modified form OF slaye-trade.-
Without suitable cOslie emlgrant laws, and IN con
nection with Northern Cotton Growing Aid Asooeia-
lions, t immigration that has been directed feeby,
but wild steadily increasing volume, TO the English
colonies and 70 California, would be driblets com
pared with the great stream that would now Into Cen
ara America.
The Iaglish have started right in this matter. COole
labor from India first tested In Mauriiius Fifty
thousand now employed there and the products of
that eoony Lave increased thousand fold since their
introduction. Some IL, 900 employed in Trni-
dad and the number is constantly aagmenting, with
Tie satisfactory resultsn increased production and
value Of lands, and contented, intelligent, aboring
sias Ana Great Britain, having thoroughly and salts
iactory tested the experiment, viii go and redeem
aer colonies By cooe labor FROM TIC prOstration and
run caused by emancipation.
Here now, Ii opening for the enter price of our
Stzsas and legitimate field for the exerions Of our
Anu'olsysFy pi5authropists! Unlike the Pro-slavery
Islas Walker, seeking 10 force Slavery BY violence
and blooehed, upon an unwilling people this legis.
"0ss 'seyrse by the peaceful arts OF trade aud