, 1861-08-15

3ooAA ~ b0 A(4G4es We'll tImUeIeQ, WatGTed
by grand rivers and with chains of ereat
navigable lakes that are only inferior to
our OWL Trading towns are found there
one Of 30, 600 inhabitants, if memory serves
us rightly. Lands are cheap. Toward
the east Of the continent, thousands are
already employed, not merely in the cul-
ture but in the spinning and weaving Of
cotton. Markets are there already eaper
to receive and distribute the products Of
civilized industry. The indigenous cotton
is better plant than can be grown any
where else except in the United States
Surely this country is quite ready for
British manipulation. All that seems
wanting is that protection to human life
and property which law affords, which
does not exist in the Southern States, but
without which industry and traffic cannot
60 On. Manchester viii send that with
her prints. IF no government provides it
commerce will extemporize it.
From the creation of the world this
mysterious country seems to have been
waiting the present moment for its com
plete unveiling. The discovery Of the New
World brought the African race in contact
with a civilization in which they were al
lowed no part Cupidity made them the
objects of an unholy traffic, The slave
trade never carried the white man beyond
the baEacoons he had planted on the fever
smittn edge Of the southern coasts. It
brought none of the blessings Of legitimate
commerce. Not one. It never expanded
the resources Of the country, nor sought
to gain permanent foothold there. So
horrid was it that it degraded barbarism
itself; and even Congo negroes degeqerat-
ed in the contact for successive gena o6s
with Spanish, Portuguese, English and
American slaVe-traders. That traffic killed
all other commerce and industry in its
balefm atmosphere. 1t has skirted the
whole eastern and western coasts Of South
Africa, and has not contributed a single
fact to human science Itabandoned those
regions as little KNOWN as it found them.
and even less known than they were to the
Carthagenians. But it has left them, thank
God if this hell-born trade has IN some
places lingering toot-hold, its days are
numbered. And now that: The hour has
struck for this great mystery Of a continent
TO be unfo1ded, : the curtain rises, and
Wkere we had fancied nothing but desert
wastes, there bursts On our astonished
view fertile region destined at no distant
day to be 9 home Of civilization, to which
whiteswinged commerce will bring wealth
and the arts Of War and peace Werecos-
nize the coincidence Of events with the,
fullness Of the time, and fully believe it is:
not fortuitouA
The industrial Development: of Africa
and the increase Of its cotton production
need be but little more rapid than that Of
the Southern States since the Revolution.
to efectually break the sceptre Of cotton
IN the next decade. Mr. Everett stated in
his ora5ion last 4th Of July, that the raw
material for our own cotton manufactures
was at first drawn exclusively from the;
West Indies and that in 1889, a duty Of
three cents a pound ms laid On it to create
not to encourage the culture. In the dis
cussion Of that measure in Congress, a
member from South Carolina declared that
Cotton Was in contemplation in South
Carolina and Georgia, and if good seed
could be procured: he hoped it might sue
ceed." Such seventy years ago were the
feeble beginnings Of our great Juggernaut.
Long since then the gin has been invent
60 Inc thousand delicate appliances Of
spinning and weaving hare been BROUGHT
INTO belng-an amount of capital has been
employed IN 1ts manufacture which when
stated IN figures: can oE;y confuse the i'm.
aginadoa. A1this must shorten the road
for any future cotton producing region and
especially in Africa, where The plant Is in.
digenous and where the willing 1abor
claimed to be best adapted to' its culture is
plenty and cheap we :may:speedily lo6k
for results as great as have been. gradually
worked out here.
There Is something strange in this coin
cadeuce Of time between the opening ,of
Africa to commerce and our own civil
war. The hero Of Dickens Int novel
illustrates his self:wrought downfall By
the story Of . monarch, who had himself;
at infinite expense, caused the roof of his
chamber TO be heWn from asinele block
Of marble, and to be nicely poised over his
couch, and to be held in its place only By
s'neie rope. Al the appointed moomeaait
ne order came to stfike.:. The uacoa-
se4oos Ain8 seized The '&xe, sevstx sevsxseid I'd III
@'o. COG TIC 1eof fell en- hin. sllaYssfsy