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ON this article little need be said. It has been culti- 

 vated and manufactured in the Southern States hereto- 

 fore, and is now grown wild over them. But unfortu- 

 nately, there is nothing but cotton, cotton ; every bless- 

 ing and every advantage that might be reaped, is 

 ingulfed in the only one and all-engrossing idea cotton. 

 When indigo was an export staple from these States, the 

 trade was very different from what it is now ; and it is 

 extraordinary, and shows the indolence of the human 

 mind, that in the Southern States there is not one to be 

 found who hasr ever inquired how the indigo plant culti- 

 vation has been getting on since it was carried away 

 from America ; what revolutions the trade in the article 

 has undergone ; what the consumption now is, and what 

 its consumption was in the time America was tfie sole 

 producer of it ; to what amount it is manufactured now ; 

 and what prices it realizes ; what the advantages may be 

 that the eastern world may derive from its cultivation. 

 No, there is not one that has even dreamed of being in- 

 quisitive on the subject. Indigo in East India realized 

 some 15,000,000 of dollars. The amount of sales of all 

 cotton produced yearly the last twelve years, would be 

 53,000,000 dollars ; yet here is an article one-third the 

 value of that upon which the whole of the United States 



