Thus it appears that England uses more of the raw material than all the rest of the world. After giving the great facts the writer uses the following language:
"An advance of one pence per pound on the price of American cotton is welcomed by the slave-owner of the Southern States as supplying him with the sinews of war for the struggle now waging with the Northern abolitionists. This mere advance of one pence on our present annual consumption is equivalent to an annual subscription of sixteen millions of dollars toward the maintainance of American slavery."—American Missionary.
[22] See the speech of the Hon. Gerrit Smith, on the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill," in which he asserts, that the invention of the Cotton Gin fastened slavery upon the country; and that, but for its invention, slavery would long since have disappeared.
[23] This is only the consumption north of Virginia.
[24] This estimate is probably too low, being taken from the census of 1850. The exports of cottons for 1850 were $4,734,424; and for 1353, $8,768,894; having nearly doubled in four years.
[25] These figures were taken from the official documents for the first edition. They vary a little from the revised documents from which [Table VII] is taken, but not so as to affect our argument.
[26] See [Table VII], in [Appendix].
[27] See [Table VI], in [Appendix]; and in this connection it may be explained that the crop year ends August 31st.
[28] See [Table II], in [Appendix]. We have of course to limit our statements in relation to some of these amounts to the figures used in the first edition, because they can only be ascertained from the census tables of 1850. While it will be found that the exports of bread-stuffs and provisions have increased considerably, it will be seen from [Table VIII] that it is not in a greater ratio than the exports of cotton and tobacco. To show that the statement as it stands was a fair one at the time, it is only necessary for the reader to look at the last named table to see that the three years preceding 1853 exported considerably less than that year.
[29] See [Table III], [Appendix].