The North-Carolinian., 1856-09-27
NORTH CAROLINIAN.
slnc Cotton Plant aud the Olive.
branch
FL .4YETTEVILLE

/ Inc olive branch as emblem Of peace, has
parted with its significance in the anity existing
oetWeen the American eagle and the British
hon. The e!asscality Of its deep green SPRAY
and scarlet berries has lost I'll its appropriate e
ness, since the sturdy Spokesman Of the deputa
ton Of English hnsbandmen, in addressing Mr.
Dlsraeii said, Nav doant let MS have no wal
WI Merica Muster Duzerly" England had
learned i Tlesson had drunk all unpa latable
draught jnst then, and found to her astomish
meilt that, thongh she might tranpfe upon the
long accepted emblem of concord the olive
| branch, yet the cotton plant the brcad-civing
weaith-creating cotton plant, was not thus to
be treated with Indgnity. 1t doubt a
revolving mental dose, this realization of her
own dependence, and doubly SO because it has
in a measure placed her in false attitude
before the world For the press of France
insists that England quaIs before the power of
the United States, and that have placed
upon her most grievous insult. To view the
matter in this light is not generous nav more.
it is unjust. England has not been brow-be ten,
but has merely listened to the adsnonitions of
sonnd sense. The English may be nation of
utlitarians, but that they arc not towards no
people have better reasons to know than their
Gallo neighbors. That war has not followed
upon the heels of Mr. Crampton's dismissal is
hot to be charged to any decay of British pluck,
but to the fact that the cotton plant has super
seded the olive branch as an emblem of Anglo
ships, or the money war would involve, bat
losses of a far different character, which deter
red Patmcrston Homecoming into collision with
this country 1t the fear that a set-to
With the Model Republic would silence the
mules and jennies of his factories, and hush the
anvil ring, and siismount the trip hammers of
his workshops, that caused him to repress his
ire, and to pocket that which, under any differ
ent state of things. he would construe into an
insnlt, and which, if given 10y any other nation
would be the tocisn of immediate war
All glory, therefore, to the cotton plant!
AS u preservative of Il good understanding and
a provocative Of courtesy between Great
Britain and ourselves, it is worth all the war
ships and Minnie relies that were ever con-
strncted. For many years past England has
been trying to work out her independence of us
and her statesmen have left no means uutried
to produce staple i'll her colonial possessions
She has tried it faithfully in India, but without
success India cotton is snperlatively fine and
beautiful, but for her rposes the merits of the
article must be in the positive degree India;
cotton makes splendid mus and lawns, such rs
Il bishop might wear bride adorn herself
with. We have seen it of such inencss that
its. entire width could be drawn unrumplet
through finger ring But of what use is
Bishops lawn, nainsook, or India cumbrc, for
the clothing OF her peasantry and her soIdicry?
None; she must have American cotton for these
purposes, and none other be an adequate
substitute. The Indian article is what the
trcnchmaH terms "rom magnzfque, con sublime
humbMg"
We do not feel disposed to regret that this
is so. In fact, we rather rejoice at it, The
great wall which fences off British aggression
from this country unlike that which protected
the lazy ceestials from the encroachments of
the Tartars, is made OF cotton, and for the
peace and security Of the world, it may he con-
sidered absolutely Indispensable that the mann
moth manufactures of Britain should place
their sole dependence for material upon the
good will and good faith Of this great and gIori-
Gus Union. 1t is little remarkable that our
cotton defended us at New Orleans in 1912
against British bullets and bayonets, and that
it has proved our best safeguard against Il war
with England i'll 6.-Ihiladeiphiu Ere Juur.