The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1867-07-04

Cotton Production. :

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account rom the Times, of India, 81 the
cotton crop in q portion Of the BRITISH Isast
India Empire. From this. we leara that
Englaud has been making extrsondip mary ieF,
iorts both 10 incfeass, the production aud 10
improve the quality OF this most valuable
article. These efforts have beeu successful.
too, in increasing the produetions, for IL is
ssumated that over . hundred and ty enty-'
five rer cent more viii be produced In tile
Bombay presidency this year than che year,
before. without taking into aceount theiu
creasing prodaciion IN the prosisces Of BE-,
rar and other parts Of India, Tho yisld OF
clean cotton is nearly three hundred thou
eand bales. reckoning, al we do, four htn.
dred pounds TO the bale, In che. Northern.
divisionn nofotha -rresidency alone, for the
year lSG6-7.3 Where thirty pounds an acre
only were formerly raised, seventy pounds
are now obtained through improved calti>
walton and better eeed. But the report of
the Cotton, Commissioner states that the
efcrts 70 ncclimatize the Sea Island, New
cotton. have al failed, as comnared with
the native Hingunghatl and Berar. The
Commissioner Gays that cotton production
has already gained such position IN India
ne will enable it 10 bear the full force Of
commercial depression aud .he lower prices
that,must come. d lie has . no doubt that
we'll directed means and energy will prove
MS successful in the long run as they were
in the Southern States of America
), While we need not be alarmed at these
efforts OF the British TO compete with us in
selves Independents Of us for this urine ar.
ticle of fsmaaufacture aud commerce, IL will
be. we'll to compare the short sighted and
injurious legislation Of our stuFid Congress
in checking the cultivation. with their lii.
eral and far seeing policy in stimulating II.
Our wal, In cutting of that supply Of Amer
ican cotton from England upoh which she
had mainly depended. has been the chief
cause Of the attempts TO produce Il ele-
where, so as to make her independent OF
this country. She had, however, for yesrs
before the ,wsr, been looking for new cot
ton producing rpgions, and stimulaied the
cultivation wherever there was q prospect
Of success Millions Of pounds sterling have
been speht in illese efforts. British s'atee-
men are fariseeing, and do not let the petty
prejudices Of party politics or factiors inter
fere whenever national interests nre in ques.
ton. See how different has been the con-
duct OF our Congress in taxing the produc.
tiop of cotton, at a time when it needed all
the encouragement possible. The cotton
States had been .-desolatsd by war; their
Iabordisorganized their capital gone their
machinery and implementsof OF industry worn
out; their plantations in many parts unpro-
teeted from river overfows---yet, with all
these and other obstacles and drawbacks.
Congress laid heavy tax on the production.
We put check upon the growth Of nm ar
tiole more valuable to the Republic, many
times over, thnn all the gold md silver OF
allthe mines in the country. ToIhis article
8 we had To look chiefly for paying the BAL
ancs Of trade against us abroad, for paying
the gold interest on the, national, debt held
in foreign countries aud for keeping specie
at home, Nothing would promote The gen.
eral prosperity and commerce Of the country
or bring usto specie payments sooner than
large crops OF cotton; yet our sapient leg
islstors have bur dened and check ed the pro.
duction. We know Of nothing In the his
tory Of legislation more shortsighted and
stupid. r. ...s. & Ga. s~,s.- aa-i .alls f.
Still, rs we said, we need not 10 alarmed
with all these depressing circumstances,
that the cotton trade will pass from u.s. or
that England can successfully compete with
as In the productions Of the mat efiaI. Ma
ture, nRd not man. haa decided this matt er.
The Cotton Commissioner in India is in co.
stacy because there they have increased the
production from thirty pounds 10 seventy y
pounds the acre. We raise, from fair av.
erage crop, four hundred pounds on an acre
Besides, the cotton Of India Is much Inferior
TO ours. 1t is the short staple kind, not
suited, without being mixed with ours, for
the manufacture of the best mat erials. And
they have failed 10 acclimatize the American
varieties in India. Nor will England ever
be able to do this, unless she can turn
the Gulf Stream which sweeps along this
continent To the coast Of lndis. or can find
another such Gulf Stream with lite climatic
influences elsewhere. 1t 10 this wonderful
and benificent phenomenon Of nature which
| gives as the necessary showers Of rain al.
ternateiy with the warm rays Of SEMI
tropical san, that reaches q certain belt OF
our country, the great cotton producing re
gion OF the world. This IL is which brings
| to such profitable maturity that beautiful
and valuable annual plant which clothes
the world and covers the oceans with the
sails Of commerce. This Is beyond the
composition Of British capital or British
national pride. We have. in years before
the war. produced over two hundred and
ffty millions Of gold dollars worth Of cot
ton annually; and IL Congress does not ruin
the South and the production of cotton. by
its absurd and dangerous legisla alton, W q may
exceed that amount hereafter. The dema nd
will be increasing continually. as civiIizs
tion ndvAnces, and, in spite OF what inay
be done Ia India and other cotton countrieI
We can always command the markets Of III,
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