201 EXPORTS OF COTTON. 



There are frequent discrepancies between the different 

 repor-ts of exports -from the United States in different 

 works ; in fact there is no country so deficient in statisti 

 cal information as the United States. 



The yearly exports of cotton, taking averages of last 

 three years, as given in the London Times of 13th 

 October, 1851, is at Liverpool prices, $78,772,361 



The yearly exports of rice, say 136,282 



Total average exports of cotton and rice $78,918,643 

 1 ask Americans, could they afford to strike off 

 $78,918,643 from their agricultural- and commercial re 

 sources ? Nor would the loss stop at that sum even ; cot 

 ton and rice would be imported at much lower rates by 

 England from other countries than they could be grown 

 here for domestic consumption by free labor. Therefore 

 the value of these articles consumed yearly in the United 

 States would be lost also, or a sum amounting to 

 $9,100,128, making a total sacrifice of $88,018,771. 



Emancipation would be the destruction of the United 

 States from one end to the other. 



Cotton now stands the planter, with slave labor, 

 5 cents per lb.; expense of cultivation, and ginning 

 slave labor stands him in 21! to 25 cents a day, (as 

 shown in table C.) For white labor, the planter will 

 have to, pay 50 cents up to one dollar a day, which will 

 raise the expense of cultivating cotton, as 21f is to 50, 

 or 12f cents per lb. Four cents per lb. above market 

 rates. But beyond this WHERE is THE AMOUNT OF 

 LABOR TO COME FROM? England has had sad expe 

 rience in the West Indies, of the effect of emancipation, 

 which reduced estates from the value of 50,000 to 



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