and stagnation, which continued with more or less intensity
throughout 1828 and 1829. The fall of prices was about 55
per cent.--_Encyc. Amer._
1826. Creek Indians removed from Georgia.
1829. Emancipation in Mexico.
1830. United States export to France, 75,000,000 lbs.
1831. Slave Insurrection in Virginia.
1832. Garrison declares war against the Colonization Society.
1832. Ohio Canal completed.
1833. Cotton consumption in France, 72,767,551 lbs.
1834. Emancipation in West Indies, commenced.
1834. Birney deserted the Colonization Society.
1835. United States export to France, 100,330,000 lbs.
1836. Gerrit Smith repudiates the Colonization Society.
1836. Cherokee and Choctaw Indians removed from Georgia,
Mississippi, and Alabama.
1837. American Anti-Slavery Society had an income of $36,000,
and 70 agents commissioned.
1838. Colonization Society had an income of only $10,900.
1840. Cotton consumed in the United States, 106,000,000 lbs.
1844. Value of cotton goods imported into the United States
$13,286,830.
1845. Texas annexed.
1846. Mexican War.
1847. Gold discovered in California.
1848. New Mexico and California annexed.
1849. United States export to France, 151,340,000 lbs.
Do. Other Continental countries, 128,800,000 lbs.
1850. Cotton consumed in United States, 256,000,000 lbs.
1851. Value of United States cotton fabrics, $61,869,184.
1853. Value of cottons imported, $27,675,000.
1853. United States export to England, 768,596,498 lbs.
1853. Do. do. Continent, 335,271,064 lbs.
1855. United States export to Great Britain and North American
Colonies, 672,409,874 lbs.
1855. Do. do. Continent, 322,905,056 lbs.
1855. Value of Cottons imported, $21,655,624.
The remaining statistics of this column can be found in the
other Tables.
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NOTE.--Our commercial year ends June 30: that of England January 1. This
will explain any seeming discrepancy in the imports by her from us, and
our exports to her.

N. B.--In 1781 Great Britain commenced re-exporting a portion of her
imports of Cotton to the Continent; but the amount did not reach a
million of pounds, except in one year, until 1810, when it rose to over
eight millions. The next year, however, it fell to a million and a
quarter, and only ro