757

COFFEE--1842.

West Indies, lbs. 9,186,555 | Java, lbs. 134,842,715
East Indies, " 18,206,448 | Brazil, " 135,000,800
------------------ | Cuba, " 33,589,325
Total 27,393,003 | Venezuela, " 34,000,000
| ------------------
| Total 337,432,840

COTTON--1840.

West Indies, lbs. 427,529 | United States, lbs. 790,479,275
East Indies, " 77,015,917 | Java, " 165,504,800
To China from do. " 60,000,000 | Brazil, " 25,222,828
------------------| ------------------
Total 137,443,446 | Total 981,206,903

[16] See Appendix, Table II.

[17] Table III. For Statistics up to 1859, see chapter VI. and Appendix.

[18] See Appendix, Table II.

CHAPTER VI.

Foresight of Great Britain--Hon. George Thompson's
predictions--Their failure--England's dependence
on Slave labor--Blackwood's Magazine--London
Economist--McCullough--Her exports of cotton
goods--Neglect to improve the proper moment for
Emancipation--Admission of Gerrit Smith--_Cotton_,
its exports, its value, extent of crop, and cost
of our cotton fabrics--_Provisions_, their value,
their export, their consumption--_Groceries_,
source of their supplies, cost of amount
consumed--Our total indebtedness to Slave
labor--How far Free labor sustains Slave labor.

ANTECEDENT to all the movements noticed in the preceding chapter, Great
Britain had foreseen the coming increased demand for tropical products.
Indeed, her West Indian policy, of a few years previous, had hastened
the crisis; and, to repair her injuries, and meet the general outcry for
cotton, she made the most vigorous efforts to promote its cultivation in
her own tropical possessions. The motives prompting her to this policy,
need not be referred to here, as they will be noticed hereafter. The
Hon. George Thompson, it will be remembered, when urging the increase of
cotton cultivation in the East Indies, declared that the scheme must
succeed, and that, soon, all slave labor cotton would be repudiated by
the British manufacturers. Mr Garrison indorsed the measure, and
expressed his belief that, with its success, the American slave system
must inevitably perish