petition with the United States;
Its vast inferiority; Imports from India dependent
upon price; Free Labor and Slave Labor can not be
united on the same field; Supply of the United
States therefore limited by natural increase of
slaves; Limited supply of labor tends to renewal of
slave trade; Cotton production in India the only
obstacle which Great Britain can interpose against
American Planters; Africa, too, to be made
subservient to this object; Parliamentary
proceedings on this subject; Successful Cotton
culture in Africa; Slavery to be permanently
established by this policy; Opinions of the
_American Missionary_; Remarks showing the position
of the Cotton question in its relations to slavery;
Great Britain building up slavery in Africa to
break it down in America. 100

CHAPTER XIII.

Rationale of the Kansas-Nebraska movement; Western
agriculturists merely feeders of Slaves; Dry goods
and groceries nearly all of Slave labor origin;
Value of Imports; How paid for; Planters pay for
more than three-fourths; Slavery intermediate
between Commerce and Agriculture; Slavery not
self-sustaining; Supplies from the North essential
to its success; Proximate extent of these supplies;
Slavery, the central power of the industrial
interests, depending on Manufactures and Commerce;
Abolitionists contributing to this result;
Protection prostrate; Free Trade dominant; The
South triumphant; Country ambitious of territorial
aggrandizement; The world's peace disturbed; Our
policy needs modifying to meet contingencies;
Defeat of Mr. Clay; War with Mexico; Results
unfavorable to renewal of Protective policy;
Dominant political party at the North gives its
adhesion to Free Trade; Leading Abolition paper
does the same; Ditches on the wrong side of
breastworks; Inconsistency; Free Trade the main
element in extending Slavery; Abolition United
States Senators' voting with the South; North thus
shorn of its power; _Home Market_ supplied by
Slavery; People acquiesce; Despotism and Freedom;
Preservation of the Union paramount; Colored p