A four-page protectionist tract from Detroit, January 1871, arguing that British cotton manufacturers and Southern slaveholding planters allied to promote free trade at the expense of Northern and Western farmers. It quotes David Christy's essay "The Economical Relations of Slavery" in the pro-slavery volume "Cotton is King" (ed. E. N. Elliott) as evidence. It argues that a home manufacturing market and a protective tariff would serve American labor and agriculture. It concerns the political economy of the cotton trade rather than textile production.