Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-02-21
The London Press on Aineri-
can Affairs.
Tie Times of the 22d ult., saws of the

1850 ~ VlS ~ TIT, Says Oi tue
cotton trade:
"Ihere is not an hour TO be lost in pro-
viding against this tremendous DANGER
To put the case in the mldest form, three
fourhs Of our cotton supply has become
uncertain, one-third of our trade is in ieop-
arly, and the earnings Of one-sixth Of our
population may be rendered piccarious
Are not these facts enough to set us at work
with will Not doubt exists about the
resources at Cur command. Cotton can be
grown almost as commonly as wheat. TIE
best seeds and the best staples ire now well
understood, and the proper method Of
cleaning and packing can be easily taught.
The rest is the work Of year or two
Since the publication Of our last remarks
on this subject, we have received a eommu-
nication from one OF the societies Interested
in African civilization, informing lis that
the progress Of cotton cultivation at Able
okuta, as actually and authenticity record
ed, Is such as to match the beginnings of
even American enterprise. In 1850 that
obscure though productive region sent
about half bale Of cotton to England. In
1855 this lnodicum had been increased
about forty fold, and in 1860 it actually
amounted TO 1000 bales We are assured
that the district could easily grow cotton
enough for the consumption of all Ian
cashre, and we are asked whether the In
PRODUCTION of skilled negroes from the Uni
ted States would not soon give us a new
Charleston on the African coast From
India the offers are the same. Tin 1857
India could send US, as she did, 100000
bales, it is fair enough to presume that I'M
der the pressure and with the encourage
ment of a strong demand she could raise
her supplies TO 100000 bales-nearly
half Of our immediate wants.
Then, again, there is Australia, actually
inquiring for staple article Of produce,and
desires nothing better than to be set cotton
growing for England. We do not dssem-
Bile the particular difficulty Of the case.-
We have repeatedly observed, and we ac-
knowledge once more, that America has col
the call Of the market Ii is not that her
advantages might not be equaIIed in the
end by those of Australia or India, but at
present she enjoys all those facilities of or
gan;zation ana traffic which would have to
be created elsewhere. The creation would
be perfectly practicable, but it has sill to
ACCOMPLISHED, and in the meantime there is
the old-fashioned firm, with its capital, its
connexions, and all that makes business pro-
ftable, yet unchanged. Nobody can say,
however, that the security will last a month
longer, and, besides that our national in
terests call iplperatively for new supplies.
1t is worth rejecting that if the agriculture
ofthe slave States should be ruined there
will be trade of 440,0O0,000 year to
be picked up by other countries"
The Meas of the 10Th replies to those
who refer our troubles to universal suf-
age, and says:
"1merica is a signal illustration of the
north of representative goveraneat--
The people Of England neither 6eliece
nor irish to beliere IN tie ruin Of TIE
great Commonwealth Of their kindred BE-
yond the ocean-but whatever perIs lie in
store for it, arising out of the schism Of
the Southern States, they well know that
these perils originate, not from the applic;l-
ton or misapplication of the Democratic
principle in South Carolina, Georgia or
Virginia, but conspicuously and VIGOROUSLY
from its absence in those States. The
Southern States are not, and never mere
denocracies an any sense OF tie term
The simple truth is. a;ii 1t cannot be too
often repeated, that Virginia, Carolina,
georgia, Louisiana and Florida were each
and all expressly founded with oligalchic
care and olgarchic aim upon an oligarchic
medel All power and privilege was con-
centrated in the planter caste; and SER
vile multitude was provided BY regal and
aristocratic policy by whose unrequited toll
the governing few were to subsist. We
grieve to be obliged to say that in our es-
innate of the possible future Of America
we see cause for the deepest anxiety as to
the fate of civilization, social and political,
in the devoted regions whose frantic oil
garchs are striving to sever them from the
wise and enlightened rule founded by
Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson and
Jay. For the destiny Of the free North,
with itsinteigence and industry, its wealth
and invention, its Ioyeof equal liberty and
its love Of equal law, there is no cause for
fear. Inferiority of soil, .seaboard and
streams, Of mineral wealth, and Of noun
tain pasture, of sweep of domain and en-
ioyable climate-the vigorous, fearless, self
reliant North can afford, with laugh, to
admit it all, and yet feel how transcend
antly stronger and richer, noblcr and hap
pier, is its place among the nations. ~
permanent Severance there must be, the
world sciH soon comprehend the difference
betwees. compact nation Of educated free
AMI selfdepcadent citizens, and a COM
numity Of iadolent and insoient proprie-
tors Of land, Hiring in hourly dread Or q
hcrd Of sldues.
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