Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-26
Downfall OF King Cotton.

lhe arrogant and VAIN hot-heads who nave
undertaken to establish nation, with cotton
bales for a foundation, negroes for peas
autry, and bullJiug for the chief national
CHARACTERISTIC, and who lancied that they
could compel the world to ray tribute to
their coltonocracy, have over estimated the
value of their position, greatly mistaken the
temper Of other people, and fatally underrated
the capacity of other regions for the growing
OF the very useful plant which has in times past
yielded them so handsofle return. Cotton
will grow elsewhere than in the cotton king
dom Of Davis, Wiglall aud Toombs The land
of WIlberforce has taken an interest, lately,
in ascertaining this fact The SecesslonistS
do rot yet hold dominion over mankind
The cotton manufacturers on boh SIDES oi the
Atlantic are practical men. They always
discharge drunken AID negligent hands at the
earliest possible moment, and give employ
mcnt 10 those of better habits. SO long as
the Cotton States Of America attended to their
cotton raising, and good supplies were forth
coming, the Lowell Yankees and the Man
chester Englshmcn have been disposed TO
patrouize them, and have steadily done So
They were good paying customers, too. They
made but little objection TO the swindlins
operation Of loading cotton bales with sand,
although men who growl continually about
wooden numegs and hams, are not exactly
the men we should expect to see selling sand
for cotton, The trick was not, perhaps, gen
orally played; at any rate it was borne with,
patiently. But the cotton fields are in dan
ger Of being deserted in "DiXie's Land" The
war like spirit Of the cottonocrats is up.
They have undertaken II very heavy piece
Of business, viz: to subdue twenty-seven Of
the United States, while the Union men left
at home do their best to prevent negro in
| surecions. This inprudent effort will re-
qure full development ofall the resources
Of the seven sable sisters. The world abroad,
meanwhile, will not permit scarcity of cot
ton to create inconvenience. oguard against
this, they have, as we have before stated,
looked about this beautiful earth-have actu-
ally dared to penetrate, with cotton-hunting
vision, other lands than those owned by the
once respectable Mr. Dixie The search has
been abundantly successful. The cotton States
may grow traitors instead of cotton for the
next few years if they find it profitable. The
cotton mills will not stop, in consequence
The Kingdom of King Cotton has fallen, and
other branches of the royal family are being
coronated in various parts of the earth.
clay down dc shubbe and de hoe;
Take up de gun and Dcbow;
Darc's nothing sure now, chile, about dc cotton
trade
De trade dat you once had in de do"
So sings Sambo, now, upon the banks of
the pcdee and Che savannah, while his mas
ters former customers thus talk Of business
matters through the columns Of the London
Times:
"The men who devised and directed the
great plot of secession, knew well that they
must appeal for recognition TO the world
without On the reception given TO thcirap-
peal it would depend whether their ports
would be frequcnted or deserted, whether
The coerciye measures of the North would be
seconded or ignored, and whether, in short
the new Contedcracy could establish itself
succt ssfully among independent nations
This question they iancied they could decide
beforehand in their own favor They believed
thcnseiycs indispensable TO the world. They
conceived that the manufactures of Europe,
and OF this country particularly, depended
absolutely on the products of their soil. They
We're the cotton growers of the world, and as
| the world could not do without cotton, it
could not do without them. There was con
siderable warrant for this presumption tut
what is the turn which events have actually
taken? Instead of being frightened into Gc-
quiescence and approval, instead Of closing
with any terms for the continued supply Of
cotton from Charleston, Europe has decided
rather on looking about for fresh markets
The measures which have been taken and the
propositions which have been made on this
point since the beginning of the rupture,
constitute one of the most extraordinary pho
nomena Of the present age. There has been
positive scramble for the place which the
Southern States of the Union were supposed
to be vacatng. The Office of producing raw
material for British cotton mills, is eagerly
and clamorously sought after. In Asia, in
America, in Africa, and in Australia, people
are ready and anxious to undertake the duty.
Egypt, Ethiopia, Abbeokuta, India and New
Granada, and dozen other countries besides,
are competing for our orders Which ten
ders may be ultimately successful, we shall
not now inquire, but one thing is certain, and
that is that the absolute monopoly of the
Southern States will be lost Their most lu-
crative privilege will have been forfeited by
their own act, and whatever position they
may assume on the American Continent, they
will undoubtedly lose their command over
the markets of Europe.