New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-16
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The Louisville Journal says:

The Louisville Journal says:
The first cargo of native cotton, CONSISTING ol
thirty bales, was shipped from Nicaragua 10
Panama few days ago. The cotton was grown
by an American named Russell VINO expeets 10
have q large crop next year. The SOIL ana climate
of Central America being shown by TINS expert
ment to be suitable to cotton culture, it is not I'M
likely that the region named may yet become an
important source of supply of that material Whicn
has exerted, during the last haltcenturY decided
influence the social and political fortunes OF the
world. As&the production of the raw staple is
extended outside of the Southern States OF the
American Union, the power of that section must
decline, until the seeptre it has welded IN the
name OF liking Cotton u shall depart from 1t for
ever. .F
Doubtless the Louisville Journal would be very
glad to see the "power" of the Southern States
decline" Nothing would please that paper
better, we suppose, than to see the "sceptre the
South has welded in the name of King Cotton de-
part forever Following in the, wake of other
Lincoln journals, it halls, with no attempt at con-
cealment, but with pleasurable satisfaction that
it cannot restrain, the prospect of ruin to the
Southern States, resulting from the growth OF
cotton in other countries.
We beg leave to say to all those who suppose the
South is helpless without sale of her cotton crop,
that they are laborng under very grieVous MIS-
take. We take great satisfaction IN saying thae II
the South did not raise one pound OF cotton from
| her soil, she would still be rich, prosperous ana
| fourishing region. Agricuturaly, she would sun
be immeasurably superior to the North-and agrl-
culture is after ALL at the bottom of all solid pros
lperity. The lands of the South do not produce
cotton Alone but almost everything else that can
| be grown elsewhere. Therefore, when the Louis
4 yileaJournal is glad that cotton can be raised in
/ other countries because the production would
/ cripple the Southern States, we feel malicious
pleasure in dashing even this poor cup of consoa
tion from its lips We say the Louisville Journal is
glad to believe this because, although it does moi
say so, the anius Of its language is plain enough
| The New York Tribune, some time ago, contem
plated, with great satisfaction the prospect of the
women and children of the South starving and ii
rags, and its Louisville ally does not appear to be
at all behind it in its hatred of everything Southern
| That cotton--such as it is can be produced il
| Central America, we do not deny. It can also be
raised in India, in Africa, and in other countries
| Notwithstanding this, we are not aware that the
| demand for onr cotton has diminished. So far the
i contrafy, it has increased with every recurring
| year. Everybody who knows anything at all abou
it knows that cotton raised elsewhere costs double
4 what we can sell it for-that, after ALL it is no.
| suited for general manufacturing purposes bu
can be used only for certain kinds of manufacture
i by mixing it with. cotton from our own region
1 Everybody knows, also, that Great Britain has eX
| pended millions in money in endeavOring to ge
| supplies Of cotton elsewhere than from us, AM
that every experiment has been a failure. Every
4 body knows, too, who has any common sense, tina
cotton cannot be produced i'll large quantities il
i any country where there is not slave labor, be
cause the white man dies under the heat of tropi