Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-21

Tobacco .lOO,OOO,900f 2O,0OO0OC
Sugar 75,0OO0O0f I5,O0000C
Food and munitions ofwar 300O0,000f 100000
Total. I,3O0, OOO, oOOf SIPS, 900, OOC
A large portion of these products figure now II
the export trade from the ports of New York, Bos
ton and Philadelphia, where they stored before
crossing the Atlantic.
The importation trade of the Southern States il
not less than eight millions of francs, Isl 500 000
taking together European importation and that
from the Northern States, which manufacture an
enormous quantity Of cotton These figures are far
from being exaggerated.
The increase of population on a soil where the
uninhabitated and uneultivated parts far surpass
the quantity of reclaimed lands, being unimpeded
il is reasonable TO suppose that in future
less remote, the figures of expectation and impor-
tation viii follow progressive parallel to the in
crease of population
The prosperity Of til. neo Confederation is then
intimately bound up 18th Egopedn interests IN gen.
eral and French interests IN particular. All those
States we have said, are producers of necessarles
and consumers of manufactured productions. In
time they will extend their production and con-
sumption.
ali their ports viii be open to the commerce of
the world and if France knows how to profit by
that favorable crculnstance which facilitates the
putting in practice of her new commercial policy,
inaugurated by the Emperor, her trade may, not
wifhstanding distance become a formidable compe-
ttor with that of the Northern States for her pro-
ductious ALWAYS in demand in foreign markets,
will find besides in the difference of the manufac
turing price an advantage which, without the Gus
tom duties which will be undoubtedly, and by way
Of reprlsal levied on merchandise coming from the
Northern Republic, will insure considerable mar
ket to French goods.
The So,hei7 Cortederacy IS besides destined to be-
become natural aIy capable if need be, gicins to
Errope if circumstances should eUsr require It. poto-
erfsd aid IN exchange for single recognition. sohich
scM ueryprobdble suffice t0ceep the fdndticiSD of the
North in check, and preserve from almost certain de-
sruction the Southern mdrs, tchch Europe could not
do toith0lt Just nor.
We are no longer in an age, thank God, when it
was made boast of having been said from the tri-
bune. sPerish the colonies, rather than princi
pie"
To recapitulate: the developments to which we
have called the attention of readers and econo-
mists may be csssed and arranged under certain
mterrogatories:
i. Can Europe to-day do without American cot
ton? She already entertans frsndly relations with
Brazil. Porto Rico, the Island of Cuba, Manila,
countries which owe their prosperity to similar in
stutions and moreover, ought she to refuse cotton
because it is the production of labor system which
she disappPoyes2 Evidently not, for there would
result from it a danger TO the providing for her
manufactures and the employment of the working
classes, tcose moral and material condition has pro-
cessd since the commencement Of this century, in d.
rect ratio ,ch the increase of cotton Is not the cotton
trade of England and especially that of Lancashire,
in sufficient critical condition already to inspire
fear of the serious disorders resulting from the dis
tress of her operatives!
e. Do there exist another soil and another climate
40 well adapted to the culture of cotton?
For many nations, no; England has long sought IN
vain for a solution of this problem
For France, yes, which, more fortunate, possess
es Algeria, but which cannot count on crop sufi-
eient for her own consumption until after the peo
Ming of that colony, and series of agricultural
studies and experiments in the acclimatization of
cotton of African soil.
3. Ought we to deprive our commerce and trade
of the certainty of exchanging its productions and
transporting them directly between France and the
Southern States, and sacrifice interests so Important
TO q question of false philanthropy No. France
oucht on the contrary seize this opportunity of ex
tending her commercial relations with them, with
view to employ the influence resulting from it, which
would be the obtaining by degrees and IN mere
humane and polite manner change in their system
of labor instead of proceeding like the Northern
States, and making it question of ruin and annihi
lation In that lies the entire American question,
which sentiment alone cannot resolve in manner
satisfactory to all the great interests at stake;
But in awaiting these results, which would now
from the cordial welcome given by Europe to the
new confederation, let true philan.hropsts be as
sured they are wonderfully mistaken in regard 70
the real condition of the blacks Of the South We
willingly admit that their error is sey
have learned the relations OF master ana slave only
from the work of Mrs Beecher Stowe. Shall we
look for that condition the iucubratons OF that
romance raised to the Importance OF pmlosopoic
but much rather inspired unconscious
" to the author, by the desire OF leading puohc
opiuion agtray Of provoking revolution and OF me-
ressi.atiug ineendarism and revolution A ro-
nance is q work of fancy which one cannot
rsfuto. and which cannot serve as basis 70 any
argument In our discussion we must seek else
where for authorities and material.
Facts are eloquent and statistics teach us that I'M
1. the observation-disclosures of those masters, so cruel
and so terrible if we to believe Mrs, Stowe, the
bIa ri nonulation of the South increases regularly
IN greater proportion than the white; while IN the
Antilles in Africa and especially IN the so very phi
anthropc States of the North, the black race de-
cresses in a depiorable proportion. How could
Mrs. Beecher Stowe reconcile this fact with her
.xtraordiuary assertions! The condition of those
blacks is assuredly better than that of the agricul
turaI laborers in many parts of Europe. Their
morality is far superior to that of the free negroes
Of the North the planters encourage marriage. and
thus endeavor to develop among them sense OF
the family relation, with the view of attaching them
TO the domestic HEARTH consequently TO the iaml.y
Of the master It will be then observed that IN
guch state of things the interest OF the pian1el'
in default of any other motive, promotes me "a
yaneement and well being of the slave. Gertalhiy'
we believe it possible still to ameiorate tnelr con
dition Il is with that view, even, that the SCUM
has laborei for so long time to prepare them ior
q higher civilization.
n no part, perhaps Of lhs continent, regard being
had 10 the population do there erist men more nsnens