The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-27
ORLEANS, TUESDAY, JULY p, 1875.

ability Of your fellow-citizens to produce the
fabrics which it is your particular province to
sell, but increases the ability of our fellow
citizens to purchase those fabrics. 5
You will permit me to assume: 4l
1. The peculiar fitness of our cotton staple
for the machinery and fabrics of England.
2. The capacity Of cur, soil to produce q
supply adequate to the demand for textile
fabrics.
8. The permanence of this supply. M
The first proposition you will allow me to
assume as admitted. ..a .a -tl
The capacity of our soil may be thus
proven. Within the parallels of 80 and 80
deg north latitude in and west of the Missis-
sippi, we claim a capacity to produce Is, GOO,
600 bales Of cotton annually. This territory
would include not only the alluvial of the
Mississippi, with that of its western tributa-
ries within the States of Louisiana and Ar
kansas, and also the whole area of Texas more
than double that Of the British Islands One of
our best Typographical authorities, Prof For
shey, has estimated the arabic area of the Mis-
sissippi delta at 10. 0OO 0O0 acres under culture
or reclaimable by proper works of protection.
This would demonstrate capacity to pro-
duce 5000, 600 bales of cotton, with all the
provisions, stock and fallow land necessary
for the culture of this staple. It must be re-
membered that this soil is alluvial and mex
haustible. The labor employed in the culture
of cotton or tobacco has been destructive, and
migrates in search of fresh forest soil Here
it rests. Centuries may pass over the delta OF
the Mississippi and viii find, as in that of the
Nile, the same undated capacity to respond
to the labors of the husbsndman. With such
a field of production may not the anxiety Of
England for the adequate supply of her cot.
ton capital, labor and machinery be satisfied +?
When it is remembered that this field is
guarded and guaranteed by government anG
a people whose ideas and institutions are
based on the same great principles as your
own, and whose ability to protect the cotton
gin is at least equal to your capacity to pro-
tect the cotton spindle, we feel that
1.-THE Douglas and the Hotspur, both combined,
Are confident against world In arms" r. =
You will have seen that our sectional unity
is restored, that the regularity Of our labor is
established, aud fhe ensuing centennial will
convince the world, that if the enmities OF
our people are fierce their patriotism is eter-
nal. Neither section will stand around the
tomb of the fathers aud admit itself incapable
of preserving the patriniony bequeathed them.
If, therefore, England should wish to give
or take bond of tate, that the alliance be-
tween the production and manufacture of cot
ton shall be perpetual. she could not offer q
better security on that bond than the United
States Of North America. tu ~. p. pee,
He next spoke OF the necessity of levee pro-
tecticn of our alluvia1 lands, and enlarged
npon the benefits to accrue to England from
an increased emigration to the South. Great
Britain needs all the cotton she can get, and
no country offers as great facilities for its pro-
duction as ours. Alter he had closed, DR..
Rutherford, Of the deputation, returned thanks
for the hospi able reception they had received,
and at some length referred to the purposes
of the Co-operative Union. He said that they
do business entirely on cash basis, and hence
bad credits were unknown. 1H i ~
He then in q glowing manner referred to
the progress they had made financially and
occasionally, their capital being s15, 900, 600,
and the youth of the society showing well at
Oxford and Cambridge. He said that it had
been the dream of the ,originators Of co-opera-
ton to build their own ships to carry their
own commodities, and the dream was near
fulillment. After again thanking the COM
mittee for their warm reception be closed.
The party were then personally introduced
to Gen. Beauregard, Mayor Leeds, Major
Burke. Messrs. Highly, May and DR.. Tibault,
and mutual interchange Of opinions was in
Idulged in. -~ ttt +. Is9s .tt f.F.....,