Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-21

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| The New Orleans Delta, Of late date, OBJ
serves:
The Northern journals have a strange wav
of showing their ffaternal affection and re.
gard for the South. They profess a great
abundance of this sort of feeling, assert that
the people Of the two sections do not hate
one another, have no conflicting interests,
but are mutually interested in each others
welfare This all sounds very well in con-
neCtiOn with an argument for the preservs-
tion Of the Union, and frequently induces
many Of our own people to overlook even
the violent denunciation of our social sys-
tenn. They set that down TO an ignorant ia.
nstieism, and hostility TO a system, and not
to those who maintain that system. Thus
they explain and justify the assaults upon the
Institution OF African slavery.
But there is another manifestation of their
kindly and affectionate feelings toward us
| which does not admit Of SO satisfactory an
! explanation. This is their ardent, their in
tense, absorbing interest in the scheme 40
anxiously agitated in England to increase
and extend the culture of cotton in the Old
! World, so as to dispense with the American
production or render the European spindles
entirely Independent of our supply of the
| raw material. In other words, they evidently
desire TO see the South impoverished de-
| prUed ofone Of its most valuable products
to enrich a foreign people and crafty their
own sectional hostility. CD N - 5~7
| Atptesent, the Southern people produce
|. Eve e-eighths of the cotton Of commerce. Thus
they give employment to a vast amount of
| foreign shipping and furnish material of en-
| ployment for the industry of millions Of peo-
pie: Through the enormous trade in this
article, the relations of civilized nations are
drawn closer together, and the prosperity of
| thewhole world greatly promoted. It is this
| state Of things which annoys our affection
ate neighbors and late brothers Of the North.
| They can not bear that we should prosper
| They prefer even that of the Pagans Of Asia
| and the sayages of Africa should enjoy the
| results of cotton culture, rather than their
| own brethren of the same blood and race
should thrive thereby. They publish with
| great satisfaction and with hopeful express
! sions the accounts from English papers of
| the various schemes to force the cotton pro-
| duction in Algiers, in India, and in Brazil.
| They look forward to the time when their
! own "countrymen" will no longer enjoy a
monopoly Of the most profitable of agficul-
| tural productions, but that it will be divided
among the barbarous and semi civilized ma.
/ tions OF foreign and remote region.
/ so earnest is this feeling that they are
| willing to sacrifice even their own great in
! tefest in the cotton production Of this coun-
! try; to send their shipping, now so largely
/ SmplOgSu III tue transportation OF tQlS pro-
! duct to distant parts Of the world, and to
| import the raw staple from these remote
countries for their own use. They are will.
! ing TO forego all the advantages Of manufac.
| turing for the supply of the Southern planta-
tions, to lose the sales of $50 600, 600 Of their
| goods bought with the product of cotton, 10
order to feed fat their grudge and crafty
!, their revenge against the South. 'iH'
/ And yet we are expected to believe the
assurances of Lincoln, Seward, and the other
Representatives of the party which repro
duces and exaggerates with SO much glee
and satisfaction the various devices set on
foot by Manchester and Exeter Hall to trans.
fer the cotton production from America to
/, Asia and Africa OF their tender, affectionate
and fraternal feelings for their Southern
brethren, and their entire freedom from any
desire or purpose Of doing them any harm
Such proofs Of good feelingas this, how
ever, are decidedly preferable to the hon.
eyed and bypocritical professions with which
they now seek to beguile and delude the
credulous of our people.