New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-07

and England. Nothing but means of Transports
ton ia needed TO increase this amount indehaedy.
and railroads for that purpose are now tn process Of
construction. Burmsh and British India export to
China 40, OOC bales annually In the little African
colony of Sierra Leone the export of cotton has ad-
yanced from 1910 u.s., in the year 1852, to 10 47O
fbs., in 1853. In 1856 Egypt exported lO5,4Oo
bales, and the East Indies shipped ass, 3OO baies-
On our own continent Brazil in 1853 exported
132, 400 bales. During the early part OF the pre-
sent century, she was only second to the United
States in her export of cotton, and has since only
neglected it for the more profitable growth Oh
Coffee
If therefore our Planting States secede from
the Union, and especially if they fulfil their
threats of prohibiting the sale of Northern manu-
features and of laying an export duty on our Pue-
chases of their Cotton, we have remedy In our
own hands better aud more efficient than war.
By fair and honorable contract with some OF
the Mexican Central American, or South Amer
lean Republican States, which all bate Slavery.
we can open the finest regions in the world TO
Northern emigration. Let us invite the brain
and muscle of New-England into the tropics.
BY the universal testimony of travellers, from
Humboldt to the present day, the elevated table
lands of tropical America are perfectly salubri-
ous 10 the white race, and even better adapted
to the culture Of Cotton and Sugar than any
portion of our Southern States. in Central
America, at an altitude of 5000 feet, the pima
and the palm flourish side BY side. Cotton grows
wild not an annual plant, as in Georgia, cut
down by frost every Fall, and repanted every
Spring, but as a perennial shrub, bearing two
crops every year for many successive seasons.
At Antigua de Guatemala, 5000 feet above the
sea, the Date Palm natures its fruit. In 81
| Salvador the cocoa-nut tree, and other iuxurI
ant forms of vegetation strictly tropical, delight
| the eye, at an altitude Of $500 feet above ths
| sea- In these favored chimes the extremes d
| heat and cold are alike unknown. There, on
| common ground, the white and colored races
attain an equally perfect physical developments
Indeed, natural conditions are so favorable to
civilization that there alone upon our continent
its indigenous development has taken place. There.
Cortez and Pizarro found cultivated Indian ma
tions with organized political and social institutions.
The manufacture of cotton cloth actually ex-
listed on the table-lands Of Mexico and Peru long
before their discovery by Europeans. 1t ia be-
cause these countries are so admirably adapted
TO Cotton and Sugar that they have lately been
rayaged by fllibusters-the armed missionaries
and propagandists of Slavery.
Let it, therefore, be distinctly understood that
| Nature has conferred on our Slave States 10
| monopoly in Cotton. If they should be sub
| merged in the ocean, new sources of supply
would be speedily opened, aud civilization would
receive no permanent injury. 1t is imP0s-
| sible to oyerestimate the results which win
| follow the introduction of free labor, under
republican institutions, into the tropics. If
our political troubles should be the means Of
preserving these fertile and beautiful regions
from the curse of Slavery, we shall be amply
repaid for our present suffering, and its South
| ern authors will be celebrated in the annals Of
posterity as the unconscious aud unintentionni
benefactors Of their race.