The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-03-27
Evidence Of the Controlling Power Of
Cotton Aooumulates.

MS ministers and Cabinet (corn, grass, stock,
&c., &c.,) must, and viii control the world.
Read what the intelligent London cores.
pondent ef the New Orleans Crescent says:
] said to an intelligent Manchester man
the other morning, what do you think of the
supply Of cotton from the United States un-
der the present cireumstaneesi NJ Think
said he, ''that we must have the cotton upon
some terms and in some way; what these
are to be, is quite uncertain, To talk Of our
doing without it Is the same thing as to talk
about our doing without bread and meat"
But, said l, could not Government provide
for your unemployed spinners and weavers,
should the supply faiff THAT might be
done," he said, "upon pinch; but we must
provide as well for the shopkeeper, the sew
ing women, and perhaps, for the bankers and
merchants, When cotton fails everything
else fails" But what will government do
under the present aspect of things again
demanded. Government would do what is
best for the country; my faith in its wisdom
is mistaken" Do you not, however, look
to the press as well, as uttering the views Of
Government "Not at ALL" he answered.
"When the time comes for Government TO
act, it will not ask advice Of the press" You
then esteem the influence of the press very
lightlyi "Not at all J; it excites public opin.
and, although It may fall into some errors,
it serves to diffuse information and cultivate
. habit Of independent thought"
Another well informed English manufac-
turer looked at the question in another light
He said we needed the cotton not only to
manufacture we needed as well market
for our manufactures, not only of cotton, but
as well of wooden, iron, etc. "War," said
he, "deprives us of these markets, and We arc
thereby doubly injured" But war, said /,
is business under which Great Britain
seems to have thrived. "That was because
of her workshops" he answered. "But now
the case is altered. Formerly war, by drain
ing the workshops of Europe opened mar
ket now, it destroys it."
You may take their opinions for what they
are worth. Great Britain obtains from the
Southern States six-sevenths of all her cot
ton. So does France, and other countries
in proportion. 1t is moi at all improbable
that the most streGuons efforts will be made
they are already making-to obtain sup.
plies elsewhere. Suppose these efforts prove
successful; to what extent can they become
sol 1t will, under the most favorable cir
cumstances, require twenty years before the
six-sevenths of American cotton can be re-
placed by other cotton, and, in the mean,
time, the demand for that product will not
only grow to be six-sevcnths, but twenty
times greater than il is now. Russia is just
tha nf sto
facturc and how is that vast country to be
supplied twenty years hencei Spain, too.
and Italy, and all Germany, are only entering
upon its use. Indeed there will not be-
civilized community upon the face Of the
earth, to which cotton viii not be necessity
ten, fifteen, twenty years hence. And how
are they to get iti This is the question
which the newspapers area ainly attempting
to answer They point to India, Africa, Cen,
trail America, Brazil, ETC., as regions Of couu-
try favorable to its cultivation.
Look at India, where experiments have
been going on for nearly thirty years, at an
immense annual expenditure, and what is
the RESULT Add together the uncertainty
of the crop by reason Of frequent innnda-
tons, the overland carriage TO Calcutta and
Bombay, the long voyage hence to England,
with freight and insurance, and you have a
few thousand bales of dark coLored, coarse
cotton at one and half to two pence pound
dearer than American Sea Island.
Look at Africa How can you raise cot.
ton in Africa without slave labor! England
must own slaves herself, or hire them Of the
Chiefs who own them. And how will this
go down at Exeter Hall Tui taeil per adj
um fdci per Sc. Besides, what kind of cot
ton, and how much of it, are questions for
the future to answer,
The same reasons apply to Central Ameri,
ca, Brazil, etc. The employment of emigrant
Coolies is, to my mind, a delusion which
time viii serve to explode. They are vicious
and intrsctable,
am persuaded that the aggregate OF cot
ton that is uscd, and is to he used, must
come from the country north of the equator.
There is something in the climate and sell
that must ever render it superior to the pro.
duct of any other country. When the bread
fruit tree of the Sandwich Islands yss first
discovered by Capt Cook, the English Gov
ernment made the most persistent and ipge
nious, as well as expensive experiments to
grow it in the West Indies. But notwith-
standing likeness Of soil and temperature, il
would not flourish. Cotton may fonrish ip
India and Africa but not as it hourishes iu
America, nor can it ever be procured as good
and Is cheap. This is law Of nature which
no policy can repeal
It surprises me to perceive that the pas
sions of writer's Ia this country are much mix
ed mp with the discussion of this country a.
with you. But the time is gone by when
Government acted upon the same views as
partisan editors. They don't go to war now
about tribes, or suffer their diplomatic rcla-
tons to be Influenced by court iatrigae.-
They consult the interests and welfare of
their people, as they are bound TO do. As.
smedly England win do this, without refer.
ence to the question Of slavery, PORN
Southern confsderacy, and whether the pow
ers at Washington acknowledge 1t or no,
she win. Was not the same thing done when
Mexico revolted from Spain, ana when Texas
reyolted from Mexico Is not the indepsnd-
ence Of Italy acknowledged, with the Pope
and Francis III still there, ana the duchies Of
Tuscany, Modena, Parma etc, still claimed
by their legitimate rulersi Did not the U.
States acknowledge the yuares Government
ruhn~ Il ha1 ha~,3lu L. a.