CHAPTER YI. 
PEODUOTION AND EXP0ET8 OF COTTON— KEMAEK8 ON THB 
GOVERNMENT TAX. 
SECTION I. 
PRODUCTION AND EXPORTS OF COTTON — STATISTICS — GREAT DEMAND FOB 
AMERICAN COTTON IN ALL THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD. 
We propose now to notice tlie production of cotton in 
tlie Southern Sta1;es for sixty years of the present century ; 
to show the exports to all the great foreign marts for the 
four years heginning 1854 and closing 1857, as a probable 
average annual amount for twenty years preceding 1861 ; 
the shipments from Southern ports for one year (Sep- 
tember 1, 1857, to September 1, 1858), as a fair sample of 
annual shipments for the same period; and lastly, the 
importations into England for six years, 1848 to 1853, 
from the United States and other cotton countries of the 
world. 
The following table shows the quantity of cotton 
produced in the cotton States of the South, with the 
value of the same, from the year 1801 to the year 1860, 
inclusive : 
