Note 21 — Chapter VI
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England and Slavery.—In the London Times of October 7th, 1858, there is a long and very able and candid article on the subject of cotton. The proportions of the article used by different nations are thus stated:
Great Britain,51.28
France,13.24
Northern Europe,6.84
Other foreign ports,5.91
Consumption of the U. S., 23.58
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.