Consideration of foreign cultivation of Cotton further considered--Facts and opinions slated by the London Economist--Consumption of Cotton tending to exceed the production--India affords the only field of competition with the United States--Its vast inferiority--Imports from India dependent upon price--Free Labor and Slave Labor cannot 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. THE remark which closes the preceding chapter was made in 1856. An opportunity is now offered for recording the results of the movements of Great Britain to promote cotton culture in her own possessions between that and 1859. The results will be startling. Few anti-slavery men in the United States expected that Great Britain would so soon be engaged zealously in establishing slave labor in Africa, or that Lord Palmerston should publicly commend the measure. The question is one of so much importance as to demand a full examination. The extracts are taken, mainly, from the _London Economist_, a periodical having the highest reputation for candor and fair dealing. On Feb. 12, 1859, the _Economist_ said: