The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-09
Ensla nd. the United States, and the Cot
ton Culture.

DOLLAR, in advance
ENGLAND. the United States, and the Cot
ton Culture.
In his late incendiary harangue in Brook
lyn, WENDELL Phillips undertook to predict
tina, the public sentiment of Great Britain
would sustain the late abortive attempt OF The
aboli,!onists to excite instruction in NT-
ginia, and sympathize with the fate OF the
convicted horse thief and felon who is about
to suffer the penalty of his crimes. Wen
aware ~ we are of the anii-slavery ideas OF
England, we shall be much disappointed ii
they uphold the unprovoked and Internal plot
of this deInoniac insurgent. There is proba-
bly, not one man III a hundred in the United
States who has any better opinion OF the IN
Justice and wrong of British dominion IN In
dia than have Englishmen OF slavery In the
Southern States, and yet, when the mutiny IN
India commercials genuine instruction OF
the miserable slaves of British rule-not one
man in a hundred in the United States SYM
paihized with the rebellious Sepoys. On the
contrary, every heart and every voice IN THIS
country was reused with as much unanimity
q, in Great Britain with the interests of civ
iiixation and humanity, and the final triumph
of British supremacy did not arouse greater
exuitation in England itself than in every
part Of America.
We are reluctant, therefore, ~ believe that
the English people, ansi-siavery though they
are, Will sympathize with such means ofoyer-
turning the domes tic institutions of the South
rs an armed invasion of the Southern States
We are aware that Exeter Hall has been the
headquarters of the quixotic philanthropy
which is l,erpetually roaming over the world
Il.
wrongs and injustice at its own doors. We
know that it has given aid and comfort 10 the
fnll extent of its capacity, to the agitation of
the slavery subject in this country. We are
aware that British journals delight TO taunr
the United States with the alleged inconsist-
ency between the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and any form of slavery. We know
that Mrs. STOWE received an ovation on her
first arrival in England, after the publication
of Uncle Toms Cabin, although on her present
visit she has been good deal neglected and
the coveted light of aristocratic courtesies has
been withheld from her aspiring eyes. Bat
we cannot suppose that The public mind OF
England is so short-sghted and demented as
to 60 beyond the luxury of rhetoric and poet
ry upon this subject and to countenance di-
rect and violent extirpation of the slave in
situations of the Southern American States
If there is such thing as national con-
science the public morality of Great Britain
will refrain from encouraging wholesale muir
der and rapine to overthrow an institution
which was planted here by her own hands
forced by her upon the South against its re-
peated remonstrauoes, and which has taken
such deep root in the soil that it cannot now
be eradicated without overthrowng the whole
fra nf IN ha nr,Ivy
science which nations have is their interests
then there is still greater reason WHY G reat
Britain should be the last nation on the earth
to encourage the violent abolition of Ameri
can slavery. 1t is TO the products of slave
labor that she is indebted for her pre-eminent
and overshadowing manufacturing and COM
mercial power and prosperity. Over and over
again have the United States and Great Brit
ain been on the eve of war, but their mutual
interests in peace have been too strong to per-
nit the arbtrament of battle. The interest of
England in the United States is Cotton and |
that is the only great staple of commerce for |
which she is entirely dependent upon Amer |
ica- She has made repeated efforts to free her |
self Of that dependence; she has expended vast |
sums In India, and is now busiiy at work in |
Africa, to increase the supply; she would be |
shaken TO her very centre if the American sup |
ply we're cut of for six months and be a ruined |
nation If i. were utterly withheld
IL could only be the madness, then, which |
goeth before destruction, which would induce |
her to look with complacency upon an at |
tempt to overthrow the slave labor of the |
Southern States. Her intelligent statesmen |
must b well aware that experience has de- |
monstrated that the cotton fields of the South |
cannot be cultivated by white labor and that |
the negro will not labor except upon compul- |
rion. The efforts OF emancipation even upon
q limited scale, in her own island of Jamaica |
ought to open her eyes TO the enormous area
OF ruin and bankruptcy which the overthrow
OF Southern institutions would produce Let
these free-soil invaders succeed in their iuta
nous projects, and they would themselves dis
cover that the only liberty for which the Afri.
cRn cares is liberty from work, and that. once
emancipated from that bondage no argument
or entreaty will ever induce them to return n
It. war between England and the United
States would bring no such destruction unou
the manufactures and commerce of Great Ri |
tain as successful invasion of the South nv
Northern aboiiiionists; for, in the former case
the cultivation of cotton would still 20 on.
ana, al the END OF few years, the usual sun
ply be res umed but. in the latter case. The
CULTIVATION oI Inc staple would AT once be in
errupted, aud never again be restored. II |
England knew her own interests, instead OF
sSmpaihizing for an instant with Northern
nooiiiionism, she would throw the whole |
weight of her Influence on the side OF the /
couih, which lie the side of her commerce and |
mahulactnres- She would better send a feet |
AUD an army to cooperate with the South ia /
defence OF slavery. than to cheer on, or even |
permit, the abolition invasion of Southern |
sell.
We are told that the public opinion of Eu- |
rope 10 against the South on the subject OF |
slavery. The public opinion of Europe is BY |
NO means nm snfaiiible standard of right and |
wrong, or else money aristocraey aud many |
other institutions and ideas right, for which
the peopie Of the United States have little
concern. The public opinion Of Europe is maj
more immutabie than In faIlible and is alev.,.s
opsn. - reasonable public opinion sbopld r.
TO the persnasions OF argument and interes,
What would the public opinion of Eurons 40
without coftonf When that question cames
70 - practically considered, Europe viii NOT |
eonssat mat the only region OF The world |
wn'cn can be depended upon for cotton shall |
converted into desert. Even il England |
Pfosas - blind 10 her own interests as e, the /
es"ss d humanity and civilization IL with
indian Empire menaeed by foes from |
ws'lsb aod Without, and her powerful prex.pb