New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-27
Of our tellov-citizens to purchase those

for the machinery and fabrics of England
! The capacity of our soil to produce a
supply adequate 70 the demand tor textile
| fabrics.
Tho permanence of this supply.
! The first proposition you will allow me to
| assume as admitted.
| Tho capacity of our soil may he thus
| proven. Within the parallels Of 80 and
32o north latitude in and west of the Mis-
! sisslDpi. We claim capacity to produce
| IL, ,OO0, 900 bales of cotton annually. This
territory would include not only the allu
| vial Of the Mississippi. with that Of its west.
| ern tributaries within the States of Louisi-
ana and Arkansas, and also the whole area
| of Texas, more than double that OF the
I British islands. One OF our best topo-
| graphical authorities, Professor Forshey,
has estimated the arabic area of the Mis-
| sissippi delta at Is 600 0D of acres under
| culture or reclaimable by proper works Of
| protection. This would demonstrate Ca
| pacity to produce 5000, 900 bales Of cotton,
with all tho provisions, stock and fallow
land necessary for the culture of this staple.
1t must be remembered that this soil is al
| luvial and inexhaustib]e. The labor EN-
piOyed in the culture of cotton or tobacco
has been destructive, and migrates in search
Of fresh forest soil. Here it rests. Cen
turies may pass over the delta Of the Mis-
sissippi and will find, as in that Of the Nile,
the same undated capacity to respond to
the labOrs Of the husbandman. With such
a field Of production may not the anxiety
of England for the adequate supply of her
cotton capital. labor and machinery be sat
istiede
When it 10 remembered that this field is
guarded and guaranteed by . government
and people whose ideas and institutions
are based on the same great principles as
your own, and whose ability to protect the
cotton gin is ut least equal to your capacity
to protect the cotton spindle. We feel
that
1.-The Douglas and the Hctspur, both combined
Are confident as ainst world in arms"
You will have seen that our sectional
unity is restored, that the regularity of
our labor is established, and the ensuing
centennial will convince the world that ii
The enmities Of our people are fierce their
patriotism is eternal Neither section will
stand around the tomb of the fathers and
admit itself incapable of preserving the pat
rimony bequeathed them.
Ii. therefore, England should wish to give
or take bond of fate, that the alliance
between the production and manufacture Of
cotton shall be perpetual, she could not
offer better security on that bond than the
United States of North America
To cOnsummate this great alliance and
copartnership OF production and manufac-
ture there is required but two conditions.
The first is the maintenance and repair of
the levee protection of the whole delta.
This we are confident the American Con
gress will order at the next session: The
&c cond condition is the supply of sufficient
capital and labor to bring this field into full
production. We would not be far wrong in
estimating the rural population OF Louis
lana at ten to the square mile. This rate,
though greater upon the cultivated lands,
is wholly insufficient to raise the lands to
their proper market price. The deficiency
in labor leaves the land largely in excess of
the d mand, and renders it important that
it should be appreciated in value by the in
PRODUCTION of more labor. Have you not
that labor to spare!
We see that EDgland has population of
$50 to the square mile, and we know that
there has been regular emigration from
this stock. We number among our cilizens
more than two ard half millions of ma
tives of Great Britain. You annually send
to your colonial dependencies tens of thou
sands to make provisions and lumber in
Canada or Australia, or to pursue the busi-
meas OF feeding and employing your people
at home in all the quarters where your flag
waves We have noted that your govern
ment has trouble with the peasantry of
England. It is class unknown in the
United States, bat we inter from the low
rate of wages that they are disconnected,
and from the question OF extending to them
the right Of suffrage in the agricultural dis
tricts, chat your government has some ap-
prehensicn that if endowed with that right
they lnay agita.e tho repeal of some laws
deemed ess initial to the regulation of farm
wages, aud perhaps to the good order Of
localities.
Would it not be we'll, gentlemen, that
you should relieve these questions. II we
have comprehended them, by sending these
surplus laboriDg aud dIscontented citizens
TO land where they will labor as indis-
putably for England as they could have
done at bomc' II with the approval Of
youI government you send portion Of
these Iaborers to increase the product
and value Of our land and furnish
your manufactures with an adequate
and certain supply of cotton, will it
not promote tho peace and prosperity
of England more than any other possible
Of that labor could do? It is
for you, gentlemen, to consider this ques-
,ion. II those Of your eountfymen who
of our people, furnishing the capital for
cotton culture and conducting its sale and
shipment, render service and honor to Eng
land, why ehould not further Immigration
Of the same people render still further ser.
vice to the mother country.
There is but a single topic in this con-
nection TO which it is proper to refer, and
this is done. gentlemen, in the same spirit |
Vi suggestion as the last.
England had long seen that her i'm
nense investments OF cotton manufactures |
were dependent upon supply OF slave |
grown cotton. She was aware that pOliti-
cal controversies threatened this mode Of |
production. Sne apprehended that the |
change in those labor relations would demer- |
alize this industry, and that the produc- |
lions of the Southern States would decline |
like these of other countries in which |
had been adopted. With this |
apprehension England turned to develop |
within her own Asiatic dominions . substi !
dependent Of any ''cetton famine" With !
put offering any other solution of this OK
pertinent of emancipation than that
American energy and enterprise seems
TO have extracted q different re-
,ult from that which have almost
destroyed the productions Of Jamaica and |
Hayti, it may be said that the Southern
States have resumed their "a te Of cotton /
production and supply, so tnat at this day
without any further apprehension
hat political controversies will affect it in
uture. The East Indian supply. besides
,eipg inferior in quality, does not promise
uch increase as to meet the wants Of the
English market. We refer with caution TO
further consideration affecting this sta
,lli,y of supply. 1t is that this cotton field
9 by the open sea. 10000 miles away from
england, while the nearer routes are through
he territories of other powers; that
England has military force Of less than
90 600 white men among 200, 0OO, 900 of sub
ugated natives; that formidable and am
,iIious power, repelled by England on one
inc OF advance TO the tropics, is making
ler way in the same direction, and that