New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-15

consumption, that even vita no new stinulant,
the former will in less than fifteen years Overtake the
latter, leaving the entire American crop with none
but American buyers. Europe viii have enough
cotton without using bale of ours. We have
looked closely into the figures OF this trade, and
they establish this position beyond cayil. The
movement to shake off all dependence on us
has been silently but steadily progressing in
England, attracting from this country little
else than sneers or ridcule But the present
crisis will cause it to be better known and APP
preciated. As il is investigated, its present mag
ntude and its future influence on US will not fail
to secure attention from the statesman ard con.
graduation from every philauthropist. The great
staple of the earth is evidently changing from one
region, where il has ruled as king, to be per-
manently domesticated in others, hencefoIth TO
exercise only divided sovereignty.
England has no need to be thus stricken With
panic. Our own cotton growers ara ths men on
whom panic ought to fall, for to them the future
is blackening, while with England it is brighten
ing. We look to 20 civil war no invasion OF
the South by liberating armies from the North,
no abandoned plantations no serious interruption
to the cotton culture. Up TO this time no cause
for such interruption has occurred, aud the planting
season is now opening with every reasonable pros
pect of the crop being planted without molesta-
ton from abroad. There will be no hindrance
on the spot from local interference, nor are there
any reasons to apprehend nsurrection. No doubt
that monetary embarrassment may prevent many
planters cultivatng largely as in other seasons,
aud that fewer acres of new land will be planted
than there would have been had no political dis
turbance occurred. Hence the coming crop can
not be larger than the last; neither is there any
good reason to apprehend its being much smaller
The planters need money quite as much as En-
gland needs cotton If they fail to plant, it viii
be owing solely to Their present poverty But
their staple las always commanded food and
money in advance aud it will do so STILL En-
gland consumes 40, 600 bales Of American cotton
per week. Great as this quantity is, we think
she will get il all.
A few weeks longer and the British panic will
subside. But though the panic was temporary, it
will not prove mere fugitive emotion. The
danger OF suddenly losing three-fOurths of her
supply Of cotton thus brought to her very door,
will never BE- forgotten. England will re-
double her labOrs and expenditures to insure
speedy and absolute independence of us. No
doubt can be entertained that she will quickly
achieve it. Her Indian possessions alone are
able 10 supply the world with cotton. This gen.
era determination will yield its fruits in very
few years. Now, this country occupies the we'll
beaten track Of growing, cleaning, and shipping
But there was n time when even we made the
beginning. Other countries, under the stimulant
Of British enterprise and capital, will fall into
this track, aud there travel as naturally as our
selves. The cotton supremacy might have re-
manned in this country for centuries bad our
Shareholders been possessed Of even common
sense. But, seeking TO enslave the conscience oil
the white man, as they did the body Of the black,
they have exhausted every contTiVauce, and saled.
The last one il Secession. While il fails to
bumiIi,te NJ. il succeeds in alarming Europe.
rvr so mOnstrous crime we practice no retalia-
tion but Europe will take signal vengeance by
forever cutting loose from an institution so power.
less to do good even to Itself yet SO potent for
inflicting evil on others.