[99] It has been denied that "Cotton is King," and claimed that Hay is entitled to that royal appellation; because its estimated value exceeds that of Cotton. The imperial character of Cotton rests upon the fact, that it enters so largely into the manufactures, trade, and commerce of the world, while hay is only in demand at home. [100] See Table XII, in Appendix, for the statistics on this subject. [101] See Table VIII, in Appendix. [102] See Table XII. [103] This paper is published at Kingston, Jamaica, and in confirmation of the views of the _London Economist_, quoted in the body of the work, the following extract is copied from its columns: "Barbadoes, we all know, is prosperous because she possesses a native population almost as dense as that of China, with a very limited extent of superficial soil. In Barbadoes, therefore, population presses on the means of subsistence, in the same way, if not to the same extent, as in England, and the people are industrious from necessity. Trinidad and British Guiana, on the other hand, have taken steps to produce this pressure artificially, by large importations of foreign labor. The former colony, by the importation of eleven thousand coolies, has trebled her crops since 1854, while the latter has doubled hers by the introduction of twenty-three thousand immigrants. "While Jamaica is the single instance of retrogression, she affords also the solitary example of non-immigration. "Mauritius, by importing something like one hundred and seventy thousand laborers, has increased her exports of sugar from 70,000,000 lbs. in 1844, to 250,000,000 lbs. in 1858. Jamaica, by depending wholly on native labor, has fallen from an export of 69,000 hhds. in 1848, to one of 28,000 hhds. in 1859. "It is believed that there are not at this moment above twenty thousand laborers who employ themselves in sugar cultivation for wages." [104] Martin's British Colonies. See also Ethiopia, by the author, page 132, for full details on this question. [105] The hhd. of sugar, as in Martin's tables, is here estimated at 1,600 lbs. See foot note on page 222. APPENDIX. EARLY MOVEMENTS IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION.