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The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
reasonable to hope that the supply may turn out to have been underrated even for the coming season. The reports from Jamaica are in the night of degree encouraging, both as to the flourishing condition of the growing crop and the rapid increase of the area devoted to cotton. In Guiana and the proprietors are setting heartily to work to procure the requisite labor, which may probably be supplied from the United States. Agricultural machinery of the highest order has been sent out to Porto Rico, which is expected to supply a large quantity, not less than the produce of 2,000 acres, next year and the quality of the West India cotton is declared to be scarcely short of the highest rated of American. Already we see that as time passes on, we find ourselves under the process of being weaned from our obstinate reliance on the slave States, and from month to month we shall learn to give up the irrational hope of any settlement in America which can restore the old state of affairs.