New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-25

production within fraction Of 700 per cent in seren
years. the Enst Indies, III per cent? the West Indies,
%nsd saes cent III nss 81 cent and @
ny TO the cotton prsdae the labor ooun.
tries bave far ou'sripped the slsveholdng regions,
ne low rate Of nereare made By Egypt 10 these
years preceding 1857, her increased production was
i4o Yer cent proving that in the latter yesr some un
usual local reason must have existed for Ter dnished
crop. Isen take Brazil, which in the same seven
years eli on from se2 pounds III 1851 to y &c..
s32 pounds in 1857. But during the fourteen years
preceding 1857, her shipments TO England vera
CCO 600 pounds, an increase Of 81 per cont showing
aso that, ike sll the other cotton regions Brazil =
oustIpipg the United States in ability 10 increase the
But lat ns take the full term Of fourteen years from
1913 10 1857. Within that period the cotton
increased their shipment to England ss folowsi
United Suites. rsI een IS E... Indies. rs o.st
Lam. .............i 81 Africa end
II, then, term Of fourteen years bas given birth
to 81 termids bic competition with American co.ton
where will the latter be at the end Of another like
pericdl Taking the import Of England in 1857 the
basis and assuming the ncrease Of the succeeding
fourteen years to lie in the ratio during the
last, the production in 1871 will be as follows:
E., d ~ sap g; United 81
indies. SEQ 300 6Isz 1894 ~
Africa rs 1855 sco 81 l63s9
This rate of increase may be fairly assumed in those
vast regions where the growth Of cotton s now stia
ulaed BY British capital and enterprise. 1t s hardly
possible from the exhausted lands of the South But
granting the same rtio this gives total Of 24io.
S35 200 pounds Take from i the 654 75o 0i6 pounds
which England took from this country in 1857 and the
remainder IL SIT l54 pounds. Now the whole
$40 more than in 1885, increase Of neary IS
Ier cent. Under increase OF this magnitude,
ring every II ears, her consumption in 1871 would be
45, 5S 3l2 pounds. Such an increase Of cotton
I'LL =.
be So tie freelabor countries will then have an this
ready for her spirdles and nearly 40oO00Oo0 more.
Her vast manufacturing machinery can thus be kept
humniing without consuming single pound OF Amer
lean cotton. That England will discriminate against
the slaye-erovn pIoduet, no one need entertain q
donbt. Sic toeraIes tho bloodbought staple only
from necessity.
From these figures it is apparent that in 1871 produc
ton will outstrp consumPtion The world will then
have too much cotton The great slaveholdhg monop.
oily of tLi country will lie broken up, aud the last prop
on which the brutal and bloody system Of human
bondage in this country now rests, Will be knocked
away forever. England will then have, from her own
possessions in India cotton than we now produces
and within 80 CO. coo pounds of what shall produce
then even on the most favorable superstition 10 In
crease. Africa, with which she is establishing the
most intimate relations will ship millions to her shores
Once assured Of Independence Of us hostile duties viii
slu. out every grade Of American cotton bf tho finer
qualities which she will merely to aid In working
IN inferior ones India alone cen grow all that
England NEEDS To stimulate production there, abe is
building railroads. stretching up into the iarror prov.
inces where labor il a penny day, and cotton is
abundant to cheaper carriage TO the seaports. Wher
ever navgable river exists she IL crowding with
steamboats, for the same object. As We know tha.
these modern appliances gave vast momentum to TIE
cotton culture in Southern States, 20 they work.
ing even greater wonders In India No sooner do they
OF en- outlets than thousands of devoted
to cotton. Tie British Cotton Supply Association have
just made report Of tie most cheering prospects and
results Their agents have trayesed every part OF he
globe seeking regions where cotton can be grown aud
stimulating liz production Greece and Turkey have
begun liz cultivation and in Cyprus alone 80 0V acres
have been devoted TO IT, AHA Minor going into II.
Tie Weld Of Egypt Wal be increased from hundred
thoueand bales to q million. The Bey OF TunB Il
moving in the same direction. India will send this
year to England crop large MS 10 astonish the com
mercial world. There, and in Africa, J)oOOO,00 o.
human laborers standing de, waiting FOR marke
10 be opened for the cotton they are Will ng and anx.
ious produce To the latter country 20CJ small gn.
have been exported from England, and sold 10 tbs
natives. With these machines they quickly learn 10
clean the fiber, and produce article which sels IL
Mancht ser ut as good price as the American. Man
chester men have established agencies among the na-
tives exchanging calico and hardware for cotton. The
quantity pr, duce0 is annually Increasing Marts are
being established along the coastthe natives every
where eultiyatmg il. They are satished with cent
per pound in the sed. Cleaned cotton can be bought
from them the Niger Ut Elk CENTS worth sixteen u
Liverpool. Here cotton grows wild in the w1ois o1
rees which bear annual crops for many year, requr-
ng nothing beyond the labor OF ga,henngit Bib
the labor AID the product are thus al their minimum Of
chearuese India aud Africa can thus underse all
other countries. England has discovered IT, aud az
cheap cotton is her great necessity here she Is deter
mined 10 obtain er future supply. The doom Of
American Slavery is written in the stupendou5 effort
England Is making 10 emancipate herself from b r
present bondage TO the South. In this effort 70 shake
il of Epglaud has spent millions Of money, but il ID
now manifest that her day Of triumph is at hand
England Sees moreover that her reliance upon us "a
most precaIious the best Her stake in the product
venees of our coitonelus great that the present.
political panic the Southern rebellion IN fact has
alarmed her for her for her future supply Sue fears
that civil may make the cotton-heiis desolse and
diminish the crop, subecting her to those runous We
brations in values which now 70 deeply eInbarrss
ing the North When her quiet revolution in the kng-
dom Of cotton shall have been accomplished where are
American planters 10 find market for the $50 U0U 0
pounds Of cotton which England once comm ned, or
ought 70 consume eleven years hence, but which then
ele " Ill not want Not in al Europe, for the cheap
cot OF India and Africa will dive il out Of market
Not in this country because free trade has rendered
protection comparatively obsolete, and shall not
want it. 1t even probable that the cheaper staple
Of tie Eastern continent may In lower rates
than can be afforded by Southern growers. The con-
tIast between cotton bands who cost their. owners
81 $50 apiece, ard those in Africa who own them
selves with Jether notes nor interest 10 pay, and
who laugh and grow fat on Il penny daily, paid,
too in calico or pig-tail cannot fail 10 show it,
self in the price OF the product of these two
systems. TIE antsgonism must be fatal 20
tie southern planter. His cotton will be
mdersold by the other. He cannot cheaper the cost
Of production even if the slave-trade be reopened
and hands be nporteds at sl00each The world Is now
moving to suppress that enonuiiy, not to revive T.
Starving bis negroes a half peck OF corn per week
will save neither him nor them. His fate IL ascer'
tanned he must 20 TO the wall abandon cotton for
son e,ling else 1t is evident that the traditional
tyIant can find no market at home, because he never
Lad one there, and yeat markets are not suddenly
established. The South will require more genera
ions 10 build up manufacturing system than 1t has