Answer:
Hammond presents facts to support his claim that "cotton is king."
Explanation:
"When the abuse of credit had destroyed credit and annihilated confidence; when thousands of the strongest commercial houses in the world were coming down, and hundreds of millions of dollars of supposed property evaporating in thin air; when you came to a dead lock, and revolutions were threatened"
These are examples of what was happening before cotton season.
"we have poured in upon you one million six hundred thousand bales of cotton"
"..brought us $100,000,000. We have sold it for $65,000,000 and saved you. Thirty-five million dollars we, the slaveholders of the South, have put into the charity box."
these are the facts of how cotton saved the North^
