Excerpt from The American Whig Review: October, 1852 There remains another illustration of this subject, as singular and exclusive as that of the gold of California, namely, the cotton of the Southern States. The growth of cotton is confined to a particular soil and a partie ular climate; and it is argued by those who produce it, that it requires, moreover, a cer tain constitution of society - that it must be grown by slave labor. Admitting, for the sake of argument, that this is true, we find the production of cotton more ...
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Excerpt from The American Whig Review: October, 1852 There remains another illustration of this subject, as singular and exclusive as that of the gold of California, namely, the cotton of the Southern States. The growth of cotton is confined to a particular soil and a partie ular climate; and it is argued by those who produce it, that it requires, moreover, a cer tain constitution of society - that it must be grown by slave labor. Admitting, for the sake of argument, that this is true, we find the production of cotton more peculiar than that of any other product, and therefore more apt to illustrate the subject in hand. We hold it to be the first and earliest duty of our government, as it represents the will and judgment of the people, to secure for the cotton-growing States the privilege of communicating the last and highest value to that material upon their own soil, and by their own ingenuity and industry. In the States of Georgia and the Carolinas we hold that it is just and natural to have the manufacture of cot ton established; but if circumstances forbid this much-desired arrangement, if these States are not able in their present condition to stamp the highest value upon cotton, we next claim that other States of the Union should have a preference to all foreign coun tries whatsoever, monarchic or free. We strenuously advocate free trade between our own republics - the highest degree of reci procity; but we claim for each republic the privilege and the right of communicating to its-own products as high a value as they may desire or find convenient; and we claim that our government ought to protect them in this right, in the same spirit and for the same reason that they establish a mint in California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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