The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-05
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Cotton and the South.

The argument used In day
slang ksyne'', when the .eottol
growing States werein their glory
that Cotton was King" and -tha
when they ceased growing It, tina
= cotton famine. would be the re
salt, and revolutions follow. in Ea
rope has proved to he.a decides
Aatds6ag: The thing has been tho
roughly tested and.the famine ane
revolution to be produced is over
and gone, and the Cotton States
have lost all the influence and pow
er they once possessed in this arti
Gle. England imported in 1856
the enormous import of 1891 mil
,sslions efpeunds Of cotton. IN 1861
she imported one hundred and
ATTY one millions of, pounds more
than in 1859, and within fourteen
millions of that of 1850.
.s-Se5mach for the supply; let us
see what was the proportion o:
these States before the war and
since, In the ten years, 1851 to
80, the aggregate imports to Eng
land amounted totem thousand
szapd six millions of pounds. OF this
the United States exported thence
g;seveH thousand seven hundred and
seventy millions, being u 2-3 per
cent Of the total.
= In the year 1866 the. Southern
s people again. attenpt ID osrcsune
cotton planting. The crop Of that
year with the reserve amounted
to only 81 "a per eept of. the Bri-
-tish imports of that year. From
DeBow's Review and Hunts Mer-
ehsut's Magazine, we have the re-
ports of cotton receipts in the port
of Liverpool to a very recent date.
From the lst January till the Sd
October 1867, the,,total imports
were 2,714,426 bales, of this 1887
$40. were from the United States
just 40 per cent. Now, as con-
7temptuousiyi as a great many peo-
pie within oar knowledge are dis
posed to treat the subject, that
India China, Egypt, Brazil, &C.,
caa- never raise cotton, 1t is an IN
deniable fact that they have fur
nished nearly all of the remaining
6U per cent, while the growth of
this trade in these countries, since
the outbreak of the war has been
wonderfully rapid, and what is
still more noticeable is it's steadi-
ness since the termination eff the
war..
Now it is also true that up to
1860, cotton, other than from the
United States, had never reached
above 800 millions of pounds per
auaun.' At that time and since,
It stands thus:
s million les.......1n 1884 sss 80 Mil lbs
Isss5l q ""...:..:.. 1865 ss' "
= tits as plain as the nose on ones
face from the statement above)
that these countries, India, Egypt,
de-, have furnished to the British
Government a larger amount Of
cotton daring the last three years
than the cotton growing States
ever seat previous to the year
1859, being an increase in six
years Of 2ll IL per cent. The
greatest growth of American sup
ply in any six years was not quite
g. per cent. A period, says the
National American, embracing
comparatively deficient year to
begin with and ending with the
enormous export year 1860. No
other six years could show an in
crease. of even fifty per cent.
Now in these countries cotton
can be grown infinitely cheaper
than at present or ever hereafter
in the Southern States, conse-
quently they can afford to sell at
prices which is ultimately bound
to cripple, if not crush out this in
dustry among US.
From the prices which We lay