New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-16

had so much 10 say OF LOUIS Dupoo"' p"' 'no
President Of the COnfcderacy" forestalls the
penuy "a. liners and cheats the pamphleteers out
of their perquistes; which proves that if not
gentleman, he is that mysterious next-thlpg-
sometimes denominated QUITE A GENTLEMAN.
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CHANGES AND COMPENSAThONs.
Eugabd is short of cotton. 1t is doubtful il
any country has ever. been so suddenly cut oil
from the supply of a staple 80 necessary to it,
manufacturing industry, or II from similar
cause so many thousands were made dependent
On public charity. No wonder that a.
powerful an effort is being made to supply
the deficiency. But her object in stimulating
the cotton culture in India is threefold. The
tone of MI her journals, including those especial
" devoted to the manufacturing interest,
proves that her first object is to obtain an
abundant supply; second, from her own Indian
possessions; third, by buying thus enormously
in India to open up in that region market
for an equally enormous amount Of manufactured
goods. Incidental to the successful accomplish
ment of these objects, is the shaking of of her
dependence on the slayc.grOwn product Of tits
country; not because Of its being slave-grown,
but because OF its foreign origin, and the dan
gerous liability of interruption to the regular
supply, such as now sends thousands of opera.
tives on the parish.
OF such an interruption England has for
twenty years entertained nervous apprehen-
sion. Bat it seemed limited to the mere
stoppage of the supply, without imagining that
there might be, contempOraneously with it,
loss of the American market. Yet the two
calamities have been preeipitated upon her at
the same moment. She gets no cotton from
fabrics. There was a singular absence OF fore
sight in the idea that the cotton crop OF this
country could be embargoed without conyul-
sion of come kind. 1t must DO granted that
no CONFUSION could have so efiectualy blocked
the cotton export as that originating IN Rebel
lion. Had war broken out between England
aad the United States. British frigates would
have winked at every cotton ship that ran the
blockade and Manchester aod Bolton would
have been kept supplied. But under the
benign operation of The Rebellion she lie COM
PEELED TO keep her hands OF, officially at least,
and thus the Rebellion is worse for Engla
than q war.
1t is this double calamity which has so sx-
asperated her against us. 1t will cost her
millions, directly or indirectly, before che has
escaped from its consequences. She sees that
rebellion ia plling up for us vast national
debt; that our Army ard Navy are both to be
maintained hereafter on a colossal scale, and
that We are creating pension list which for
fifty years to come must make heavy drafts on
the Treasury. The magnates Of the British
Exchequer, and the Cotton Lords Of Lanca-
shire, may not care to ascertain the total Of
these various burdens on our future industry,
but they already understand that il viii 10
large enough to eilectualy take the Tariff ques-
ton out Of American politics for century at
least, and TO make thorough Protection the
only policy of thi. country. The premcnitory
consequences of this exclusion they feel already.
They need an outlet for their manufactures a.
urgently as supply OF cotton for their spin-
dies. The two straits have come upon them
without warning, and at the same moment.
They turn away from us withou. attempting to
conceal their chigrin, and plant themselves up
on Iudia, ayowing tie purpose of crushing the
native industry of that country by gorging i
with British manufactures, just as for years
they have crushed the native industry of this
by Cutting US with Thousand fabrics which
colusion with their slayeholding allies alone
enabled them to crowd upon us.
1t will be interesting to watch the progress
of the mighty changes in the commercial world
induced by the Rebellion. SO far, most OF them
are Just begun, and few are yet in full opera
ton. India, with her uncounted millions, will
be compelled to submit to the extinction OF Der
manufactures. She has no sturdy New.Englsnd
element to make resistance. She has no itch.
Ing palms in Congress held out impatient 10
receive the bribe; no slayeholding Interest to
crack the plantation lash over those who might
honestly resist the destruction of the national
industry. These were aids to ruin peculiar to
ourselves. India will succumb without them,
u victim in the grasp Of British manufacturing
cupidity. Her cotton culture may be stimu-
lated, bur the cheerful hum of her domestic
spinning. wheels viii be drowned by the catIeI
of British spindles
India produces nearly 100000 900 pounds
Of cotton annually, or more than double the
whole consumption of England. The usua
yearly export is only 100000 pounds, al
the remainder being manufactured at home.