Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-05-09
From the London Morning Star, of April It'll
r-.x,,sn xIexys of the Effects "a War with the


Three years ago a war with Russia was an lmpro-
liability. There was diplomatic difference wit an
exchange of diplomatic views, as much confidential
as controversial abont third Power, but between
the English and Russians there was no quarrel
Thev came into contact the customers OF one an
other The Russaps supplied US with graln TIMBER
hemp flax, and other articles and we supplied them
with cloth and cutlery, and were the means OF con,
veying to them colonial produce. Our capital ana
our ships carried the bulk of their trade. we had
been with only slight interruptions, friendly tor three
hundred years. Together we had fought what our
fathers called the great battles for European FREEDOM
and having won it, had together maintained the peace
| Of Europe almost unbroken, for nearly half Gen.
tury The statesmen of both on the most friend
ly terms But long formed habits of peace and friend
ship broken through, all the highest consider
atoms Of morality were disregarded' and the nation
was hurried into war; for abstruse, remote, and
| Hypothetical contingency.
What happened to Russia, may come TO pass as
! to the United States We have dispute with them
concerning ourselves, diplomatic notes are exchanged
in friendly spirit, and misguided politicians, from
their attachments to obsolete theory and old pre-.
ludces, ready to hurry the two nations into an
exterminating England might we'll war with
Scotland, MiddleseX with Lancashire, the toll
| lowing facts will show
From the ports of the United Kingdom, last year,
1902 American vessels, of ,234 74O tons, carried
away cargoes of woolens, cotons, silks, cutlery, and
iron and into our ports, 1,278 American vessels,
of 217,743 tons, brought cargOes of cotton, corn,
pire, inward and outward, carried by Is 37O,
265 tons of shipping, of which the American ship
ping, representing 2,452,492 tons, constituted nearly
one-sxlh, and than thirds of all the
! other foreign shipping of the world which entered
our ports.
There is return of the English shipping which
assisted in carrying the trade of the United States
in 1855 but in 1851 the tonnage of our vessels that
entered and left the several harbors of Boston, New
/ York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Orleans
was l,l6l, 504 while the total tonnage engaged in
the trade of the States in that year 1868, 867
SO that our shipping carried on onesiXth of their
trade
The total value of our exports to foreign countries
amounted in 1854 to So 1882 1921, and of this sum
81 1862. TO the United States In 1853 the
amount was 23,658,42H. The value of the in'p ports
of the United Kingdom from the States as given in
the returns OF the United States, was in 1853 "a
3OO,O00L. Our own returns for 1855 put down the
real value Of imports from all parts of the world
at 143 $50 5O5l The separate counties are not dis
tingushed but the cotton imported was valued at
2O822 7l5I, Of which amount siX-sevenths, or g.
O64,850 cws., out of 1917 $50 cwts come from the
United States. The grain, meal and flour impor ed
; was valued at 100 0O0l Of which fourth, or
say in value 1000 O0Ol, came from the United States.
From them we receive most of our unmanuactured
tobacco, and the value imported in 1855 was ,3O6,-
1881 These few details viii suffice to give an idea
of the extent Of tIade with the States. It a
mounts to third Of actolc export trade, and
probably to about large proportion of whole
import trade win fOTegn cOuntIleS.
Great Britain and America have a common Ian
gUage and common literature. 1t has been esma
ted that nearly 100000 of the free white popu-
laton of States, Of nearly 80, 900 900 who in.
habied them in 1850, were derived since 1870 from
imm grants and their descendants Very recently,
when the Germans have gone in great numbers TO
the States, the bulk Of this immigrant population
has been derived from the United Kingdom. Like
the population of Nliddlesex, the population of the
States is composed OF individuals from every part of
our common country, mingled with large foreign
element; and the predominancy of the English ele-
ment is equally shown in both places by the use oil
the English language, the reading of English books
and the performance of English plays. The Govern
mens are different, but the people are identical SO
that war between the two would, in the strctest
sense Of the words be civil war.
The reader may possibly imagine what would be
the condition OF England were one-sixlh of all the
foreign shipping that enters lis bors cut off, one
tenth Of its shipping unemployed, the Dulk of its i'm
ports OF cotton, grain, -four tobacco and provisions
stopped OTethirG Of its exports foreign COun tries
one-ffth of its total exports put an end to and
on the whole not less probably than one fourth of
our industrious population thrown out of employ
mcnt no longer producing wealth for the landowners
and wealth for the State, but falling as paupers on
the national resources for support, and paupers
breeding criminals. In 1912 and 1913. when the
political intercourse with the States was about one
nth only large at present, the celebrated Orders
; IN Council which first checked our trade with the
period wholly suspended ii, carried ruin into our man
ufacturing districts Mills were stopped, hands dis
charged, riots ensued and MURDERS followed by ex.
ecuuonS, were the climax Of the disorder That was
the consequence Of the suspension of only small
part Of our trade.
: In 1912 49, the Americans had about 900 600
tons OF shipping; now they have got upwards of 4,
OOO,OOO tons, or rather than have and thei
zhips ale known TO be among the finest in the world
The total population of the States was then about
8,OOOOOO; it is now 25,O0O00O. Then they gave
us great deal Of trouble We might, perhaps, as
! some Idle people amongst boast, sweep their
C commerce from the seas, but they, in turn, would
: sweep ours. large portion Of the great mercan-
tile marine OF the two countries, longer employed
IN supplying their mutual wants, would be converted
into instruments of mutual destruction There would
: be a maritime war in every sea. Our West India
Colonies, dependent, in great measure for food and
lumber on the States, would be exposed to great mi
vatIons and to great depredations, and might take it
: INTO consideration whether they should not declare
e themselves neutral State. Our own coasts would
tempt numerous attacks, and we should ourselves
suffer, as we have net suffered for many centuries
the horrors OF partial invasion and actual warfare
May God forbid that the language of any politi-
cans, OF OF any portion of the press of ENGLAND
should ever bring about civil war between two ma
tons circumstaneed
Nor A SAVAGE VICE.-At sunset yester' eve a
robin sang In pine tree in the shady ravine beyond
u the Observatory, and made from his little throat mu
l sic strong enough to bear upward mans spirit to
thoughts Of the infinite and infinite goodness and ius
hymn of the red-breasted bird. Hidden in its thick
ItOaOe, he as ne hind q