[55] Ware v. Hylton et al., 3 Dallas, R., 210.
[56] How completely this early prophecy has been fulfilled appears in our history.
[57] Law of Nations, Book III. ch. 9.
[58] Count Portalis, at the installation of the Council of Prizes in 1800: Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres du Droit Maritime des Nations, Tom. I. pp. 179, 206, 264. Montesquieu had previously enunciated the same principle, with a limitation: L’Esprit des Lois, Liv. I. ch. 3.
[59] “Impius et crudelis judicandus est, qui libertati non favet.”—Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Cap. XLII.
[60] Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 67.
[61] This prophecy, like so many others with regard to Slavery, has failed, as appears from a Comparative Statement of the Cotton Crops of the United States for the three years last preceding the War (which years had the largest crops ever produced), and for the three years last past, prepared by Mr. B. F. Nourse, of Boston, December, 1871.
| Year, or Cotton Season. | Crop Produced. | Aggregate Value at Ports in Gold. | |
| Bales. | Pounds Gross. | ||
| 1858-59 | 4,019,000 | 1,876,800,000 | $164,225,000 |
| 1859-60 | 4,861,000 | 2,343,000,000 | 207,190,000 |
| 1860-61 | 3,849,000 | 1,886,240,000 | 170,000,000 |
| ——————— | |||
| Gold value, three years | $541,415,000 | ||
| ——————— | |||
| 1868-69 | 2,367,000 | 1,103,957,000 | $201,835,000 |
| 1869-70 | 3,123,000 | 1,441,057,000 | 242,195,000 |
| 1870-71 | 4,352,000 | 2,021,651,000 | 236,770,000 |
| ——————— | |||
| Gold value, three years | $680,800,000 | ||
| ——————— | |||
[62] Debates in the Federal Convention, August 22, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. III. p. 1396.
[63] Debates, August 25: Ibid., pp. 1429, 1430.