30 COTTON 



And he didn't climb it. 



SOME STATE'S EVIDENCE 



Let the British edition of the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica tell the story. Let us hear this piece of 

 State's evidence as to the crisis which came when 

 war so nearly stopped cotton production in the 

 South: 



"This great source of supply, when apparently 

 most abundant and secure, was shortly afterwards 

 suddenly cut off, and thousands were for a time de- 

 prived of employment and the means of subsistence. 

 In this period of destitution the cotton-growing 

 resources of every part of the globe were tested to 

 the utmost; and in the Exhibition of 1862 the rep- 

 resentatives of every country from which supplies 

 might be expected met to concert measures for ob- 

 taining all that was wanted without the aid of 

 America. The colonies and dependencies of Great 

 Britain, including India, seemed well able to grow 

 all the cotton that could be required, whilst num- 

 erous other countries were ready to afford their co- 

 operation. A powerful stimulus was thus given to 

 the growth of cotton in all directions; a degree of 

 activity and enterprise never witnessed before 

 was seen in India, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Italy, 

 Africa, the West Indies, Queensland, New South 

 Wales, Peru, Brazil, and in short wherever cotton 

 could be produced; and there seemed no room to 

 doubt that in a short time there would be abundant 

 supplies independently of America. But ten years 

 afterwards, in the Exhibition of 1872, which was 

 specially devoted to cotton, a few only of the thirty- 

 five countries which had sent their samples in 1862 

 again appeared, and these for the most part only to 



