n Planters attempt to monopolize Cotton
markets; _Fusion_ of these parties; Free Trade
essential to their success; Influence on
agriculture, mechanics; Exports of Cotton, Tobacco,
etc.; Increased production of Provisions; Their
extent; New markets needed. 55

CHAPTER VI.

Foresight of Great Britain; Hon. George Thompson's
predictions; Their failure; England's dependence on
Slave labor; Blackwood's Magazine; London
Economist; McCullough; Her exports of cotton goods;
Neglect to improve the proper moment for
Emancipation; Admission of Gerrit Smith; _Cotton_,
its exports, its value, extent of crop, and cost of
our cotton fabrics; _Provissions_, their value,
their export, their consumption; _Groceries_,
source of their supplies, cost of amount consumed;
Our total indebtedness to Slave labor; How far Free
labor sustains Slave labor. 61

CHAPTER VII.

Economical relations of Slavery further considered;
System unprofitable in grain growing, but
profitable in culture of Cotton; Antagonism of
Farmer and Planter; "Protection," and "Free Trade"
controversy; Congressional Debates on the Subject;
Mr. Clay; Position of the South; "Free Trade,"
considered indispensable to its prosperity. 67

CHAPTER VIII.

Tariff controversy continued; Mr. Hayne; Mr.
Carter; Mr. Govan; Mr. Martindale; Mr. Buchanan;
Sugar Planters invoked to aid Free Trade; The West
also invoked; Its pecuniary embarrassments for want
of markets; Henry Baldwin; Remarks on the views of
the parties; State of the world; Dread of the
protective policy by the Planters; Their schemes to
avert its consequences, and promote Free Trade. 73

CHAPTER IX.

Character of the Tariff controversy; Peculiar
condition of the people; Efforts to enlist the West
in the interests of the South; Mr. McDuffie; Mr.
Hamilton; Mr Rankin; Mr. Garnett; Mr. Cuthbert; the
West still shut out from market; Mr. Wickliffe; Mr.
Benton; Tariff of 1828 obnoxious to the South;
Georgia Resolutions; Mr. Hamilton; Argument to
Sugar Planters.