The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-02-21
Something for Gotten Planters
To Think Abo1t

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ed and answered by the Memphis appeal
n the following manner:
For fits years Great. Britain has stead
] liy sought to destroy the eottonpreduc-
ing supremacy Of The United States
\ ith this view the anti slavery agitation
was begun, not that England loved frica
less, but India more. England triumph
ed, African seryitude was no more, and
with 1t the commercial power Of Amer lea.
on land and sea, was aEnihilated. The
negro gained freedom from seFvitude to
man that shackles might be fastened
upon American progress, that Govern
ments might be polluted, and that icnor>
ance, and vice, and universal suffrage
nigh: pave the way for anarchy, desp0t--
/ ism, a counter revolution, and, ultimate~
| iy, for the reproduction of conservative
republication. These are the processes
| tie American system may undergo be
4 fore the goal Of perfectibility in governs
nent is attained. Hardly less important
/ are commercial changes and disasters
wrought by recent historical events.
/ Formerly the United States furnished
/ three fourths, and now less than one half
/ the cotton used IN Great Britain. The
/ British supply from other countries, and
! especially from India, has steadily in
! creased, until at length it constitutes one
third, instead Of one>sixth, as in 1860, of
/ the quantity manufactured in England.
| 1t will thus be seen that the results Of the
| late American war have been quite as
disastrous to the industrial "a to the
comm ercial and political condition and
! independence of the United States. The
! future cons equences of changed CONNER
cial relations subslstng between Eng,
| land, India and the United States, grow
! ing out of the disruption of ancient social
| systems, are palpable. India now grows
] cotton at cost of six cents per pound,
end delivers it in Liverpool at eight and
one half pence. Planters in the lCwlands
| of the Mississippi, with levees to maintain
and subjected to constantly recurring
| dangers from uncontrolled foods, and
with the present wretched systems of
| labor, can no longer compete with India
save in the quality of the fiber prod uced.
/ Each pound of American cotton costs
the planter twelve cents To compete
" 18th the India, the American staple must
be sold in Liverpool at eleven pence. In
very truth, the prospects of farmers of the
| South as monopOlsts Cfthe world cotton
market are by no means fAtterlng. II
/ they can maintain any foOthO!d at ali
IN competition with Egypt, India and
| Brazil-each having practically operative
! slave codes, and each blessed with limits
lees subYen ions furn jshed By rich and
wise govern ments, employed IN draining
| swamps, hedging In rivers and building
railways outhern planters can con-
test the palm with all these agencies OF
wealth and industry, there IS hope for
| the regained pre>eminenCe of the South
in the worlds cotton markets Lei
Southern dealers and producers NOS forget
that the highest grade in quality and
lowest possible price have not been reach
ed in India Within about ten years five
Thousand miles of railway have been
built in In Iia, streams have been leveed,
the sea walled in, and cannals are dug
for purposes of irrigation. Countless
millions are expended year after year in
India to secure for England greater
triumph IN statesmanship over the United
States than the North ever won on battle
fields over the South. While we were
engaged here Ia the brutal, accurseG
business of making thieves, breeding cor
rupt villains from the womb of he'll born
war, and freeing negroes as an Incident
of the foul, disgusting work, Ehglanc
seized the trident eff Neptune ami became
mistress of the seas, and the wand o
PlutEs, and was crowned queen Of tbs
worlds commerce and manufactures.
By securing the best seed each year
by steady mechanical and other improve
ments in modes of cotton culture, b.
lavish expenditures in extending the arei
and enriching lands devoted TO cotton
production, England proposes to Inointair
and perfect the position she has won
We have but one recourse. Faciiitie
for cotton planting in the South must b
multiplied; the area Of loWland5, produc
ing for each acre four times rs much cot
ton as the uplands of Georgia, must b.
indefinitely widened the railway system
Of the Southern alluvial States must b.
perfected and canals dug; and what Eng
land does for India, the Federal Govern
ment, as proposed By Senator Alec D
IL an elaborate speech upon this subject
must do for India of the South. Wild
view Of recovering the commercial
power lost by the whole country, an
won By England when the North wa
waging war upon the south, 1t is nov
proposed to redeem from overflow til
iowlan Of the Miss :ssippi. This sohem
| Congress must accomplish, and until
be Effected, the Federal Union must con
fees that in It's war for its own integrit
it lost supremacy on the ocean and con
troll CT the world 8 commerce. The path
way to perfect and complete victory
: clearly pointed out by the Aississjpp
T Senator, and when 1t has been adOpte
I | there will ut the same time be created
paradise for the segregation of the re
groes. The political and sect onal goc
a thus accomplished by the scheme Of Sen
n ator Alcorn will only bo equaIed by ban'
y fcent commercial results making ours TIA
richest and most prosperous of the ma
tons.