New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-03
rHEY ARE ALL CRAZY,
The following is from the New York IndepeDd

The following is, from the New York Independ.
,ent- Parson Beecher's paper: i, ga
The present high price of cotton is now producing
the effect long desired BY all trpe friends liberty
throughout the world. It is stimulating most ex-
traordinary efforts for its production in every quar-
ter. Providence is doing work by permitting the
present civil war, which will kill the great mon
arch, cotton, in this nation. John Bull will soon
be relieved from bis present difficulty of talking
freedom in the United States, while, at the same
time, his " pocket argument" leads him to po1'k
against it. We predict that, within five years. the
entire wants Of the world can be supplied with cot
ton elsewhere than here. While this great staple
was abundant at eight Or ten cents pound public
attention in other countries was not called to its
production but now, at double former prices the
matter is commanding almost universal attention.
We Of the South are perfectly willing that the
entire wants Of the world shall be supplied with
cotton produced elsewhere, if fair and honorable
competition is not interfered with-if we are
allowed to enter the general markets on equal
terms. That is all we ask, ever have asked, or
ever shall ask. We have no desire to force our
cotton upon the people Of the aforesaid g world y
and If they can raise the snowy staple for them
selves cheaper and better than we can afford to sell
tito them, as matter Of course, in accordance with
the immutable laws Of supply and demand, we shall
be driven from the market, and compelled to apply
our labor to other branches Of productive industry
Should this prove the case we will have no reason
to complain, and shall not complain. We never
have interfered with anybody or anybody's bust
ness, and never shall; and we shall cheerfully
abide whatever fate the fluctuations of production
and commerce may have in store for US. M
at the same time we may laugh at these inju
dieious specnatons of our ruthless enemies know
ing full well that the throne of King Cotton (" is
as firmly fixed as the base Of the everlasting noun
tains. Cotton can never be uncrowned. There
gal diadem can never be torn from his head. He
will grow stronger, more glorious and valuable to
mankind, as the years wax and wane. His su-
premacy can never be successfully assailed; and
the only way his enemies can injure him in the
slightest degree is in resorting to African slavery
on the most extended scale. All the nations of the
earth may attempt to throw off their allegiance,
but in vain, unless they resort to African labor on
the Southern plan. Nature has placed an insuper-
able barrier in the way of cultivating the staple by
white labor. The white man sickens and dies,
while the negro keeps healthy aud fat. That this
is All order Of an AllWise Providence all sensible
men admit, and none but Abolitionists deny. All
the cotton raised in the world is actually grown by
slave labor, although the laborers may be nomi.
nally free Tho op eratives on the cotton farms Of
India and Egypt are involved in a. seryitude 9
Thousand fold more abject than the Southern negro
while not a single care or thought is bestowed
upon their physical or moral welfare. Why, there
Is not a slave in Louisiana who does not waste
absolutely throw away, ten times more food pc
annum than the Indian or Egyptian laborer cal
get to exc ont a half.staryed existence with.
Therefore, the " universal attention " of thu
| I" world. !" spoken Of by the New York Independ
emit, is worse than thrown away, unless the be
aforementioned 6 world concludes to COVER
| itself by common sense and the dictates Of tru
| Christianity. If the world Y will turn real
pious and philanthropic, the' world will at ono
elevate all the sable sons of Africa to q conditio
Of slavery, and thereby Christianize ciyilize. an
make them usefnl--no part of which Can be don
without enslaving them. Then the "world wi
have done really righteous deed, acceptable j
the eyes of God, and may be released from
portion Of it's dependence upon the South 70
| cotton-but not until then. All other efforts wi
prove futile in the future they have in the past
Slave labor and cotton supply will forever renal
4 inseparable terms. sy