Chapter XI

Results of the contest on Protection and Free
Trade; More or less favorable to all; Increased
consumption of Cotton at home; Capital invested in
Cotton and Woolen factories; Markets thus afforded
to the Farmer; South successful in securing the
monopoly of the Cotton markets; Failure of Cotton
cultivation in other countries; Diminished prices
destroyed Household Manufacturing; Increasing
demand for Cotton; Strange Providences; First
efforts to extend Slavery; Indian lands acquired;
No danger of over-production; Abolition movements
served to unite the South; Annexation of territory
thought essential to its security; Increase of
provisions necessary to its success; Temperance
cause favorable to this result; The West ready to
supply the Planters; It is greatly stimulated to
effort by Southern markets; _Tripartite Alliance_
of Western Farmers, Southern Planters, and English
Manufacturers; The East competing; The West has a
choice of markets; Slavery extension necessary to
Western progress; Increased price of Provisions;
More grain growing needed; Nebraska and Kansas
needed to raise food; The Planters stimulated by
increasing demand for Cotton; Aspect of the
Provision question; California gold changed the
expected results of legislation; Reciprocity Treaty
favorable to Planters; Extended cultivation of
Provisions in the Far West essential to Planters;
Present aspect of the Cotton question favorable to
Planters; London _Economist's_ statistics and
remarks; Our Planters must extend the culture of
Cotton to prevent its increased growth elsewhere. 91