The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-23
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TIE GREAT QUESTION OF THE DAY.

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The United states Posses the Oxsy Rss-
| able Cotton Region 10 the wssid,
&s', Ac.. Gss
The great question OF the civilized world is the fuers
growth ard supply Of cotton. And like other in
P,r,ant questions, those who about the
history OF the plant and its cultivation the most
| about Il.
England wan,- supply Of 500 600 900 worth Of DOT
ton pcr apnum. France aud the North of Europe want
sac eco 900 per annu the manufacturers Of
I ca want sac 100000 annually ALSO which give
psos ment clothing aud food 10 miuons. Yet these
snmers Of cotton are, through their advocates OF alb
sract IDEAS about African slavery doing their utmost
overthrow it, production In the United States II would
be h righteousness 10 grow by eosavcd coolies
by African slavery In Africa, In Souh America or in the
West Indice bat 20 In this country by welt treat
cd African laborers 70 be without forg yenesa or
palliaton Toprevent the Unoo destroyed the
destruction os accomplished aud the ma,eri
and political interests of millions overthrowa,
aud tho whites themselves generations 10 succeed
them must BE- enslaved beneath military despotsun
Rather than tlt uhe abstract idea negro equality
shalt be abandoned.
Search the whole history of NAV, from Adam down %
this year Of Lord 1851 the accounto Of c,vN
M Oiu ages a8u COdtltrleB, irEoOorS
the Wars of the Roses of the 81 Rarhoo-
news day OF tho maness aud folly OF the days
Robesperrc. None BONE, Furnish any parable. 10 the
madnes3of the religious and political crusaders of the
present time: We fnd dominant porty ut the NORTH
through ite orators, writer's preachers and journalists,
moving heaven and earth to overthrow 20 000 600 u
whites destroy all their
them into military bondage. Fer what7 aye, for whats
10 benefit the negro the South No. Then for what
Why, for the privilege Of ruinrg il destroying.
four mioDs os blacks.
The only rule OF gnvcrnaent is the greatest hsfaaees
Of the greatest number E the creates, ppiness Of Tie
greatest humber Of whites well blacks Is secarea
by the equality Of the States Ia the Union he 10 mad
| man who would ruthlessly destroy it.
The war OF FL isi and Northern
directed against political character OF the ques.oa.
but through its agency aeaiuse the growth Of cot -
the South They thia that IL they only faa
rival to The United StaAss In its growth tina, tier
abstract madness about African labor woad be
plished. Suppose the dreams of visionary ns1a
could realized suppose that could be pr dre1
tho zambs and tribuarss the part Of
the continent OF Africa under British Iae o. IA India,
how would American manufacturers es<asa their
annual supplies OF $40 00O 000 WORTH Would they be
abc TO send their wooden wares their hats, shoes,
gons, ploughs, washing machines and thousands
Of other "notoss,' TO give in exchange for cotton
|
States be able TO send breadstas, proviesSss and live
stock India hrsa to Central America, and
give them eussnge Would Nor lhcrn ships
find profitable to the Equator twice and double
the Cape Of Good Hope 10 obtain il for Sew E0gsad
cotton mills and when manufactured bs 70
compete with English manufactures? The only advantage
| any of ce,,alpy New England has had
competition with Old England the production Of cotton
goods has been in tho OF the Southern cotton
md In f},e n meth ofh .2houtd
ceton culture be destroy the South consttioa
against England would be at end MI pound OF Sea
Island cotton, that aware Of manufactured In
the United The samples OF cotton,
approximate Sea island in quality, Europe,
And what wouh England herself have to gain, were IL
practicable by suivating cotton in Africa 70 extent
to superseds her supplies from Amcricn She sells
to annually from $50 900 600 to 500 900 600 worth
OF her manufactured goods chiefly payment of
cotton Suppose the cotton culture transferred from
this country Africa other semi tSies
would its half starved and half clad inhabitants consume
equal amount CT British eoods2
u IL curious witness the vsgares Exeter Hall
English ''eoon supply associations and their echo
among American abotonsts and black republican jour
pal Ii India China which going rival the South
States. Thn 1t is Africa Central America witch
DO the job for hemnot dreaming apparently, that
possible to abolish the cotton culture OF tho South
by rivalry political commissions, it would involve
the whites Of America and OF Europe general ruin
England and the North cotton II this is 40
why encourage the Of its culture at the
SOUTH That cotton region has produced yield one
year OF 900 600 bales 1t embraces cotton lands su
| cient to yield eight nine millions OF bales By
proper encouragement it could DO Increased
| TO six million bales and finally double the pre-
| sent yield thus giving ample supply a
cotton at to cents per pound, and sufficient supply
the civilized world with all the cotton needed, and
thus add untold wealth TO both the South and to the
North. The million OF OF American shipping manned
by 81 0C0 American sailors employed 1869 In carryne
crop Of cotton could few years be increased 70
two three mors Of tons manned by 900 70 900
\ American sailors The New Eogand mills instead a
consuming forty millions Of doars worth Of cotton would
1 soon bc enabled TO double that amount No. England
and her Northern abet,ofs while camoring for more
cotton under abstract idea about African slavery
In America (but nowhere ese engaged in making war
upon the only extensive and reliable cotton growing
country in the world and the only place in the world
where its growth Be augmented meet the demands
/ Of the civilized world.
mE possuss THE ONLY axtiAms
COTTON REGION IN THE
We possess the only extensive reliable cotton region
in the world. All thoughts of rivalry hopes OF su,
plies being superseded by other regions totally
surd and only entertained by visionary men, or BY
these who are ignorant Of It's cultivation
We must understand that there are about atty vars-
ties OF the goeypum cotton plant and h,i OF tho
whole number there only about four cultivated Eor
commercial purposes each OF which annual and re-
qures rcpantrg every year The perennial cotton trees
Of the tropics wholly useless far tho quantity
quality 10 concerned their pods bols, are small
and comparatively few 10 the tree, while the 0bre
Of th o,,on s coarse, harsh and brittle We muss
comprehend the fact that ANNUAL plants cultivated In
the uni,ed states only adapted to climate where
rain and sunshine alternate with sufficient heat ma-
ture the plants, and that they viii not stand tho
tremes Of drought and to all inertropaoaa
ATTITUDES where only plan which be employed n