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occasioned hy the pernicious practice of wearing cottons) assembled in a body, and dressed 

 the criminal, hangman, and the gallows in cottons, in order to discourage the wearing thereof. 

 And at the place of execution the criminal made the following remarkable speech : 



11 'Give ear, good people, to the words of a dying sinner: I confess I have been guilty of 

 many crimes that necessity compelled me to commit, which starving condition I was in, I am 

 well assured, was occasioned by the scarcity of money, that has proceeded from the great dis- 

 couragement of our woollen manufactures. Therefore, good Christians, consider that if you 

 pi en tn ■-oppress your own goods, by wearing such cottons as I am now clothed in, you will 

 bring your country into misery, which will consequently swarm with such unhappy male- 

 factoi • :- your present object is, and the blood of every miserable felon that will hang, after 

 this warning, from the gallows, will lie at your doors. And, if you have any regard for the 

 prayers of an expiring mortal, I or- that you will not buy of the hangman the cotton gar- 

 ments that now adorn the gallows, because I can't rest quiet in my grave if I should see the 

 very things wore that brought me to misery, thievery, and this untimely end ; all which I pray 

 of the gentry to hinder their children and servants, for their own character's sake, though 

 they have no tenderness for their country, because none will hereafter wear cotton but oyster- 

 women, criminals, hucksters, and common hangmen.' " 



What would poor Micky say now, could he rise from his dishonored grave, and learn that, 

 despite his prophecy, almost every man, woman, and child, in the civilized world wore that 

 same hated cotton that brought him to the hemp, and that it dispensed happiness and comfort 

 to millions of the human race, who earned their subsistence by its culture and manufacture? 



The following tables, furnished us by J. T. Stewart & Co., Cotton Brokers, of New York, 

 exhibit a comparative summary of the cotton crops of the United States, since the year 

 1823-4, in bales of 400 pounds:— 



Crop if Bales. 



1843-44 2,030.409 



1842-43 2,378,875 



1841-42 1,683,574 



1840-41 1,634,945 



1839-40 2,177,835 



1838-39 1,360,532 



is:-; 7-38 l,so],497 



1836-37 1,422,930 



L835-36 1,360,72.-) 



L834-85 1,251.328 



1833-34 1,205,394 



Cmp of Bales. 



1854-55 2,847,389 



1863-54 2,980,027 



1852-53 3,262,882 



1851-52 3,015,029 



1850-51 2,355,257 



1849-50 2,096,706 



1848-49 2,728,596 



1847-48 2.347.634 



1846-47 1,778,651 



1845-46 2.100,537 



1844-45 2,394,503 



Crop of Bales. 



1832-33 1,070.438 



1831-32 987,177 



1830-31 1.038,848 



1829-30 976, 



1828-29 857,744 



1827-28 720, 



1826-27 957,28] 



1825-26 720,027 



1824-25 569,249 



1823-24 509,153 



The comparative product of the United States, by decades, since 1824, is as follows: — 



Is I I 2.391.503 



1852 3,262,882 



The annual quantity of cotton consumed and in the hands of manufacturers, north of Vir- 

 ginia, for the past twenty-six years, i u as follows: — 



1824 569.249 



1834 1,264,328 



Crop of H'llw. 



1854 55 593 



1853-51 610,571 



I- .' 58 671,009 



1861-62 608 



51 104,108 



i (9 50 187,769 



1848 19 518,039 



1847-48 681,772 



1846 17 127,967 



1-15 16 122,597 



Cmp of Mules 



is i ( (5 889,006 



1843 ll 846,74 I 



1842 13 826,129 



L841- 12 267,860 



[840 ll 297,288 



[839 10 295,198 



i - --39 276,018 



1837-38 246,063 



1836 37 222,540 



1836-36 23,6.733 



Crop of Bales. 



1884 35 216,888 



1883-34 196,413 



1832 83 194,412 



1831-32 173,800 



L880 31 182,1 12 



1829-30 126.512 



1828 29 I l- 



1827-28 120,698 



1826-27 149 



The comparative quantity consumed In is". I and in 1855, south of Virginia, is u follows : — 



1864 1855. 



h Oarollns I I i\500 



Booth Oarollns 12,000 10 



Georgia 23. ("io gl 



Alabama 6,000 6, iOO 



T< oneasea 6.000 4,000 



On the Ohio, Ac 3S.000_ 16,000 



J lal to Scptcmbor 1 105,000 85,000 



