The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-10-23

OF labor-force the South to compete
with the world and, when slavery is no
more profitable than 1t was sixty years
ago, its ethics, its morals, and its power
will disappear with Its profits. Conquer
the South in battle dozen times over
run its territoryj emanclpate its slaves,
and drag it back into the Union, but if
you leave it its monopoly all your Ia
Dor will have been in vain Again the
African will drift back into bondage !;
again the cottou-king will rear his
head and again, soon or late, must this
conflict be fought to the bitter end. We
must destroy our Warwick before peace
can be secure, and healthy competition
is the one, only, fatal weapon.
Of this what is the prospect? The
blockade is at last effective, and the cot
ton crop is shut up for the present
They talk of capturing and opening cot
ton ports. Heaven grant that if the
Government should do so, the cotton,
safely stored In the interior. may not be
forthcoming! Every additional day of
the blockade; every additional penny
per pound piled on TO the present price
of cotton, is one more turn of the bow.
string round the neck of the Southern re-
bellidn and the Gotten monopoly. Day
by day the papers tell us of new cotton
fields planted-of new competitors spring
ing up. Enumeration is useless India,
Australia, Hayti, Jamaica, Brazil, Peru,
Central America, Egypt, and indeed all
of Africa, are filled with new hope
While the blockade lasts these countries
are favored with prohibitory tariff,
which secures to them the markets of the
world. But their efforts are yet young,
their resources are undevoloped, their Ia
Dor is not systematized, their channels of
trade are hot opened but all they need
is time and encouragement Both these
the blockade supplies. Let it be raised
by foreign or domestic power, and before
the Southern control OF the market all
these young efforts must go helplessly
down. To bring this struggle to de-
eisive close, the best use Congress could
make of it would be, if the Constitution
stood not in the way, to appropriate tel
millions of money to be expended under
the direction of DR.. Livingstone in the
development of the cotton culture IN
Southern Africa. Like the Romans of
old, we too should carry our war into
Africa.
Thus in spite of English lucubrations,
not only is this war waged against giant
wrong, but it is great civilzer. 1t
opens up undeveloped lands, and though
carried Oh, as England asserts, in the
name of the Morrill, tariff, it is in fact the
greatest engine of free trade against mo-
nopoly that this world has ever seen.-I
When viewed in these possible results,
the struggle rises to magnificent and po-
etical proportions. All quarters of the
globe participate In it.; each race of man
has stake on its result. The Indian,
the Central American, the Australian,
the Egyptian, and, last and most Of all,
the African, may read in its progress the
signs of their destiny. A brilliant wri-
ter some months ago said "There can
no. be Russian war, or Sepoy mutiny,
or an Anglo French invasion of China,
or an emancipation Of the serfs of Rus.
sia, without the effects thereof being SEN
sibly experienced on the shores of the
Superior or on the banks of the Saeramen.
to; and the civil war that is raging in the
United States promises to produce per-
manent consequences to the inhabitants of
Central India and Central Africa" So
it will strely be if our blockade does but
continue, or if this war in its result
breaks up the production of cotton but
for two short years. To Africa, in jus
tice, the great atonement is due. Let
her rise up, and through healthy competi-
tion prove the fberator of her offspring
the Development of her resources is the
sole condition of her success. In that
great continent, sealed up since creation.
Livingstone tells as of the existence of
cotton and rice and sugar lands such as
the world never dreamed of before. They