Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-11-21
Cotton.

Cotton.
 But we must declare that to our own iuiL- rnent, the downfall ut the cotton monopoly Is the handwriting on the wall, which assures lhe in~ ,tituton of its coining tate in the full maturity # the plans of Providence Slavery by thr means oi lhe cotton trade; II has uuri>hed upon hat trade. and has relied upon that II, means tor bending the world to it's will. It. ,wn folly has now brought the world to q full understanding of their dependence upon q sin> .ie interest, the danger ot such dependence and he unscr ipaOus manner in which II has been l,ed 10 forward political designs. The deter nination to b; free from thls Il, ? -ndence rests lpon too well assured grounds of interest and ,a cty to be abandoned. .-Boston Duly Idcer> Hssr.
 Language like this, which is to be met in scores of repub lcan papers, can only be uttered oy sensible men, in contemplation Q! the separ' 4tion of North and South The n0hopOiv ot cotton is our monopoly. The wealth it gives Us is our wealth. The crop Is carried by northern 5hrS, and the returns comes back to mortimer hands, and the northern shipper, and banker, and merchant and manufacturer, take two thirds ,i the profits ot trade. II the union Is to be ore. served, this monoply will be perpetuated wlth II, and 1t will continue to give two thrds OI its am aual profits 10 the North and one third 10 tke South. The newspapers who cry out against his monopoly, and the government agents who are stupidly trying to break 1t down, are enc nies of their country; unless, indeed, they are working in the convction that the South is soon 10 become an alien aud hostile government, and that we must rid ourselves of our dependence upon It.
 We do not believe in the ptophesies that Afri>
 Il t..l, ,1 continent, will rival us in the production of this staple On the contrary, the ne,cIy-ope'ted mar kets for tie consamption ot cotton goods acidc1s aore rapidly Moa lie di$cocered fields ojf pro- fpctt0n Conquests in Chua railroads in India, discoveries in Africa reveal to millions of consumers of the manufactured article and few producers of the plant. United America can not be deposed from the seat of vantage III this vast business, and no true American should make the reasonable attempt to do so
 We allude to the matter now, however. not with the idea of entering into the discussion whether the United States can be superseded as the cotton producer oi the world, but for the pur- pose of showing the anImuS of those who plead the cause of rivai and foreign producers. They connot look forward to reconstruction ot the Union. They contemplate separation, or such d subjugalion, by aid of a servlle insurrectlon, as would obliterate the present organization oi society and industry in the southern States, de- stroy them as fields of production or markets for commerce.
 We now produce sevcnty-hve per cent. ofthe cotton of the world. Destroy that, and we are left dependent on India and Egypt and China, who raise only twenty five per cent. of an article so inferior as to be incapable of the uses to which our sea island cotton Is adapted. Shall we become the dependent of the dependents of England? Shall we wi1iugly exchange our re- latlons with the South for condition of subor- dinancy to England, jealous and malignant as that nation has shown herself to be? It would be the greatest folly a people ever committed It. would be worse than suicide. It would be an incomplete suicide, in which the victim was compelled to drag ont mutilated existence and life agouized by remorse and pain and shame.
 It is political hate that inspires this disloyalty to our national prosperity. We are toll that "s avery rose by means CT the cotton trade, >and that the trade must perish in order that slavery may die! But is 1t true? Did not the slave trade cease here before cotton came to be large ly cultivated? Has it not thrved in Cuba and Brazil for half century longer, and have they r,valed us n production? The ruth Is the South has the lands suitable for the production, aud the kud of labor best adapted 10 IT, costly though 1t is. m pared with that of other tropic nations. The result Is production that Is un- rlvaled aud has heretofore given the practice monoply in the markets of the world. But 1t would be as true to say that the prosperity of New England and New York has rested upon cotton as that of the South has. An analysis