or 35,212,520 lbs. less than the imports for 1853. Of these
imports 66,210,704 lbs. were re-exported; thus leaving the British
manufacturers but 79,008,272 lbs. of the free labor cotton of India,
upon which to employ their looms.[35]

This increasing demand for cotton beyond the present supplies, if not
met by the cotton growers of the United States, must encourage its
cultivation in countries which now send but little to market. To prevent
such a result, and to retain in their own hands the monopoly of the
cotton market, will require the utmost vigilance on the part of our
planters. That vigilance will not be wanting.

FOOTNOTES:

[32] Benton's Thirty Year's View.

[33] The Tariff of 1846, under which our imports are now made,
approximates the Free Trade principles very closely.

[34] These figures are taken from a part of the _Economist's_ article
not copied. For the difference between the imports from India, in the
whole of the years 1850 to 1855, see Table I.

[35] The commercial year is five days shorter for 1855 than in former
years.

CHAPTER XII.

Consideration of foreign cultivation of Cotton
further considered--Facts and opinions slated by
the London Economist--Consumption of Cotton
tending to exceed 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
cannot 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.

THE remark which closes the preceding chapter was made in 1856. An
opportunity is now offered for recording the results of the movements of
Great Britain to pro