Results of the contest on Protection and Free Trade--More or less favorable to all--Increased consumption of Cotton at home--Capital invested in Cotton and Woolen factories--Markets thus afforded to the Farmer--South successful in securing the monopoly of the Cotton markets--Failure of Cotton cultivation in other countries--Diminished prices destroyed Household Manufacturing--Increasing demand for Cotton--Strange Providences--First efforts to extend Slavery--Indian lands acquired--No danger of over-production--Abolition movements served to unite the South--Annexation of territory thought essential to its security--Increase of Provisions necessary to its success--Temperance cause favorable to this result--The West ready to supply the Planters--It is greatly stimulated to effort by Southern markets--_Tripartite Alliance_ of Western Farmers, Southern Planters, and English Manufacturers--The East competing--The West has a choice of markets--Slavery extension necessary to Western progress--Increased price of Provisions--More grain growing needed--Nebraska and Kansas needed to raise food--The Planters stimulated by increasing demand for Cotton--Aspect of the Provision question--California gold changed the expected results of legislation--Reciprocity Treaty favorable to Planters--Extended cultivation of Provisions in the Far West essential to Planters--Present aspect of the Cotton question favorable to Planters--London Economist's statistics and remarks--Our Planters must extend the culture of Cotton to prevent its increased growth elsewhere.