AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL 

 STAPLES 



OF AND FOR 



AMERICA 



PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF THE COTTON TRADE 

 AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. 



MY subject is one of the deepest interest to the United 

 States, both morally and in regard to their material pros 

 perity. I aim at bringing round a reformation, which I 

 shall show to be of the highest importance to this and 

 all other countries. In the following pages, were I to 

 labor to produce conviction, simply by authority of names, 

 however respected, and of probabilities, however plaus 

 ible, it would be to present the question in such condition 

 as to excite endless disputation, and leave men in doubt. 

 Therefore, I shall state facts, derived from long personal 

 experience, and from historical data ; and these facts, 

 derived from those two sources, conjointly shall, I fear 

 not, successfully appeal to the practical good sense of my 

 readers. 



In my endeavors to promote the welfare of America, 

 and the cause of humanity all over the world, I will con 

 fine myself to the simple relations of actual state of 

 things, to show the pressing necessities of a comprehen 

 sive adaptation of other articles of Agriculture and Com- 



