Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-27
The Deoease of King Cotton.

crush out the greatest, as 1t Is the mos
Wanton, rebellion known to histoty, thu
capitalists oe-the- Old aud New World.
are arousing to the Importance of de-
| throning the most absolute of monarchs
King Cotton. Proceeding on the as.
sumption that his rule would compel &
recognition by the conspirators Of the
Cotton States lost sight Of the possibili
ties within the reach Of enterprise anc
capital, and committed the fatal error il
their calculations OF supposing that the
spinners Of Lowell and Manchester
would fall down and worship the ibrous
deity as their only salvation. Nebu.
chadnezzar made similar mistake wher
he set up the golden image in the plain
of Dura, and had to eat penitential grass
as consequence before he got through
with she business.
The spindles of Lowell and Manches
ter still whirl, while grass grows in the
streets of New Orleans. Cotton is find
ing its way to Liverpool in increased
bales from ''fartherest Ind" and we al
ready hear Of companies being formed
to give impetus to its culture in Egypt,
capable of producing three millions of
bales annually; of expeditions to India,
where, under the present miserable sys
tenn of production, the yield is about
two hundred pounds per acre; and OF
associations forming with Jamaica as
their destination, where the cotton tree
is perennial and not annual as in the
States, and the yield not less than eight
hundred pounds to the acre. In that
hitherto terra incogaita with which the
explorations of Barth and Livingstone
are making US familiar, cotton grows
with luxuriance and spontaniety un-
known to the most fertile Suvannahs OF
the South; and it needs bat the foster
ing hand Of civilization and the direct
ing energy of skillful enterprise to
make its supplies sufficient for the needs
Of the world How long do the Lords
of Secession suppose it will take, with
the inducements thus held out, quick
ened by the necessities Of supply, to set
up a successful rival to their King,
leaving him monarch without domin
ION, grasplng
"a barren sceptre in his withered hands?"
AS though the monstrous policy in
augurated were not sufficiently speedy
in its ruinous results, they have added
ostracism to selfish local egotism, and
are driving from their soil men who
have contributed by their skill and in
dustry to the past prosperity Of the
South and the development Of the cot
ton trade. Many Of these men are
practical cotton growers, and under
stand every peculiarity of climate, soil
and culture: essential to the profitable
raising of the great Southern staple
Exiled, for opinions sake, like the
young man who advertises in our
Want column to-day, they are seek
ing only employment for their skill and
experience, and stand ready to form an
alliance with capital, wherever directed
to the culture of cotton in foreign lands.
Nothing could be more opportune than
these offers of experience to go hand in
hand with enterprise, in the effort to
make the cotton marts of the world in
dependent of the supplies Of capri
cious and insolent power that measures
the extent Of its etfrontery by the ne
cessities Of mankind.
Stimulated by the certain falling off
of supplies, even in the event of an early
peace, and the consequent rise in the
price Of the raw material, it will not b.
long before new fields will be under cuI-
ture, and jamaica, Hayti, Nicaragua,
and other favorable regions, open mar
kets that will be quite as attractive as
Charleston, Savannah or Mobile, to the
spinners OF old and New England. The
already increasing supplies have post
poncd the evil day when supposed ne
ces,ity would compel England to recog-
nize nationality alike repuen mt to the
sympathies and convictions of the
British masses, and there is reason to
believe that that necessity will never
arise.
While we should prefer to see the con-
troll Of the cotton markets retained in
the hands Of the planters Of Govern
ment that will in the future be more
perfect in its unity than in the past, we
cannot shut or eyes 10 the logic Of
events, and the certain humbling of a
commercial autocracy. Brazil, Egypt,
India, and the islands of the sea, are now
competing for trade that nothing but
an insane egotism could have allowed to
slip from its grasp. And as one Of the
peaceful methods Of reducing the pre-
tensions Of power that has, more than
anything else, precipitated the country
into all the evils of civil war, we can but
wish success to the various enterprises
on foot, and abundant employment to
all such skill and experience in cotton
growing as has been driven from the Sc
ceied States by desperate and de8potic
traitors. rs.-CJhci,tHati Comnsercia!.