Chapter XII

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