1842. COTTON, Early Conditions.—
The
four southernmost States make a great deal of
cotton. Their poor are almost entirely clothed
in it in winter and summer. In winter they wear
shirts of it, and outer clothing of cotton and
wool mixed. In summer their shirts are linen,
but the outer clothing cotton. The dress of
the women is almost entirely of cotton
manufactured by themselves, except the richer
class, and even many of these wear a good deal
of home-spun cotton. It is as well manufactured
as the calicoes of Europe. These four
States furnish a great deal of cotton to the States
north of them, who cannot make it, as being too
cold.—
To J. P. Brissot de Warville, Washington ed. ii, 12.
Ford ed., iv, 281.
(P.
1786)
