text:  Under such circumstances the real question to be solved is--Shall Great Britain secure and keep as she may do the superiority in Tropical cultivation commerce and influence? or Shall foreign countries be suffered to acquire this supremacy not only as regards themselves specifically but even to the extent of supplying British markets with the produce of their fields their labour and their capital to the abandonment and destruction of her own? This is the true state of the case; and the result is a vital question as regards the future power and resources of Great Britain