Chapter 37

Consideration of foreign cultivation of Cotton further considered; Facts and opinions stated by the London _Economist_; Consumption of Cotton tending to extend the production; India affords the only field of competition with the United States; Its vast inferiority; Imports from India dependent upon price; Free Labor and Slave Labor can not be united on the same field; Supply of the United States therefore limited by natural increase of slaves; Limited supply of labor tends to renewal of slave trade; Cotton production in India the only obstacle which Great Britain can interpose against American Planters; Africa, too, to be made subservient to this object; Parliamentary proceedings on this subject; Successful Cotton culture in Africa; Slavery to be permanently established by this policy; Opinions of the _American Missionary_; Remarks showing the position of the Cotton question in its relations to slavery; Great Britain building up slavery in Africa to break it down in America. 100