CHAPTEE lY. 
THE COTTON STATES OF T^E SOUTH. 
The cotton States, "par excellence^ are South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Ar- 
kansas. The southern half of North Carolina and Tennes- 
see produces good cotton ; but neither of these States is 
included by our best planters in the list of cotton States. 
As, however, they both produce and manufacture largely, 
we think they are entitled to be included in the cotton 
zone of the world, if not in the first-class cotton States of 
the South. 
The area of this entire region is about 650,000 square 
miles, containing over 400,000,000 acres, greater than 
the area of Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and 
some of the German States, put together. 
Let it be populated as densely as England, it is capa- 
ble of sustaining 160,000,000 people. Populated- like 
France, it would hold about 100,000,000. Populated as 
we think it should be, it will sustain, with ease and com- 
fort, about 30,000,000. 
No country on the face of the earth presents greater 
inducements to the laborer, the manufacturer, or the capi- 
talist. Fifty years ago three-fourths of it was a wilderness. 
A traveller through the South, in the summer of 1860, 
might have said with propriety, " The wilderness shall 
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