...g $100,000,000, or about one half of our national debt. He asserted that enough cotton ought to be produced in 1863 to supply the domestic demand as least, if none were raised for exportation. In Georgia 400,000 bales were made in 1861, and 60,000 in 1862. Under the law permitting three soles to the hand, he placed the crop in 1@3 at only 30,000 bales, or 15,000,800 pounds, the whole of which would...