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THE Report of the Committee states that, " perhaps, 

 no interests in the world are so surrounded with dif- 

 ficulties, or subject to so many disasters, as the cotton 

 planting interests." This very statement will only 

 show the very uncertain and dangerous position of the 

 whole of the States with regard to this staple. A pru- 

 dent people would not place their all on so uncertain a 

 foundation. Where is there an article that does not 

 fluctuate in prices ? Those articles of consumption which 

 a man must have three times a day to support existence, 

 even they, although there can be no mistake in the 

 amount required, vary in prices, from the uncertainty 

 in production. One year the wheat, another the oats or 

 barley, another the potato crops, might fail ; there are 

 years some may fail, yet, from the abundant harvest of 

 the others, plenty and cheapness of food would be the con- 

 sequence. Yet in these articles, while there can be no 

 deviation from the usual quantities consumed, upon the 

 other hand, from the uncertainty of harvests, cause a great 

 deal of fluctuation. With regard to cotton, indigo, wines, 

 &c., on both sides, there ever must be great fluctuations. 

 The consumption as well as the produce is always liable 

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