EVILS OF EMANCIPATION. 2l)5 



Guardian, Jan. 23d, 1850, see Royle) as in the very las* 

 season, caused a considerable rise in the price of cotton ; 

 and it was calculated that in that year an advance in 

 price of 2d. (four cents) a pound required an increased 

 payment by this country of ,4,000,000 sterling. In 

 this year the increase in price has caused many spinners 

 and manufacturers of coarse yarns and heavy goods 

 either to stop their mills or to work short time, and, of 

 course, to throw many of their workmen out of full and 

 regular employment. It has been well ascertained that, 

 with high prices of the raw material the present enormous 

 production of cotton manufactories will not, and cannot, 

 be taken off by the markets of the world.&quot; 



Can any well disposed American desire to deprive 

 America of fully, if not more, than one half of the whole 

 amount of her exports, $78,918,643, and value of domes 

 tic consumption to the amount of 9,100,128 ? And for 

 what purpose would this sacrifice be made every year ? 

 Simply to send 3,179,569 of negroes adrift upon the 

 American public, without any provision made for them. 

 It is but just a day or two since 200 famishing emigrants 

 were obliged to return to Liverpool from America, be 

 cause they could get no work ; and Abolitionists, without 

 taking any thought for the future for so many millions of 

 people, wish to see them on one hand deprived of a com 

 fortable home, and at the same time on the other, to de 

 prive these States of one half their means to give employ 

 ment to any body of people, or in fact to support them 

 selves ; in short, to shut up all work, and to put an end 

 to all progress. 



But, to go further into the subject in its economical 

 bearings, it is necessary to get a glimpse at the actual 



