Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-10-03

10 the Edds1 cf the Charleston Nerc,,r,,
we have carefully perused Mercator n Va
tne Z5ro lns upon the expectation Of coto ou Issue
Southern Conederacy during the exoten OoOa from H.
raj blockade and with all Difference BEG eoJ 'ae F
ne reasons onered are ingenious and pans;h,o dfa
WIN enoeaVor 10 snow that they are more cd out
than real Mercator assumes that hy tho ~ "Ptqndr
Llncons policy is to prohibit the exporati TOkade Nh
In our opinion the principal object Of the bo coo
the Lincoln government is especially dirptaG9'
the importation OF those articles that We eto3 SgaC
need of, viz blankets wooens, cloths coga. most
large number Of other articles that We h., @ AID
past colonial vassaage to the North bo ."'e ID Oh,
of receiving via Philadelphia, New Yor a5 "a The habit
Instead of refusing to allow England and Doston
have bale of our cotton" we feel perfect r"nce
that the Federal government would be deIiab @tSGa
to all foreign governments, your ships are ~. 70 Say
to enter in ballast the cotton ports to load VII A6
of cotton" The New York Herald the .o5 5;u eaoa
OF the Northern Government, has again and aa organ
mated that the ministers to the Courts Of ST 1 oa mt
Versailles have been Instructed to assure tbosa and
ments that at the proper time they shall govern
ton they want Mercator asks when and Nv wat cot,
the policy of the country settled that NOT or "u 7
cotton should be exported until our ports war oac
We reply, emphaticay, by the peop pie from utod
TeXas-the people who achieved Secession " ssaal0
Of and in opposition to, their former leaders oao
clans and statesmen, who in the late session IV pla
gress have expressed no opinion on this point b. I
yet to learn that the people have determined & nave
bale Of cotton shall leave our limits until onr uV
ment is recognized as an independent nation bg NIoo
powers of Europe. s'"t
Cotton is King" and will maintain bis snr,,.
if bis subjects only true to themselves IfN.',
cuars of the cotton factors in all our seanort ,V c
mending to the panters'to keep their cotton a. 'S
did not contain the implied meaning that the cotton
not to be exported until peace is established orbe2
10 nx,olf han arNlI o%l0.
understood it. Again, Mercator says the ef.o a
such vast diminuton in the supply OF cotton Ir;,
non-exportation) very easy to foresee" TbRs E
will rise rapidly in Edrope. Upland cotton the o p
price of which is 3d. will 60 to I'D and nprbar,I
Manufactured goods will rise in the same nrondr5 lou
Grant it-and what will follow ? Mercaor knoTo
well as we do, that the cotton lords of Manchptor IA
at once commence working short time, discfsr.~.
hands, and this, too, in md-w winter, which viii ao.
starvation upon the already badly paid eper,,irs,
Britain, to be followed by riot aud boodshed Fo.E
calamties, which We should heartily deploe brt 4,
which we cannot be held responsible. The, avn I
eminent alone would be to blame. Why does Fn,,.i
hesitate in acknowledging our government? Pfs, AZ
the Lincoln government? By no means bpt 1,,5
Patnerston, who has been in Office so lOng tbat he r
not part with power as long as he has ie fears tas
natics of Exeter Hail. 1.-THE noble compeers of our Bs
Republican brethren who, not satisfied with tuDr1
the lovely islands of the Caribbean sea from terr
paradses to desert wastes, would carry out their en-
SADIE against slave labor by making our own fair SaR
a bowling wilderness. But this can never be ero~
plished so long we are true to ourselves The fe
against our peculiar institution is if possible strr
both in Britain and France than a. the North Mn
Gator further says, should Europe continue to dsrq
for single year with the American crop, what gJgtr
calamity could befall our country" We admit ta
such event would entail heavy loss and suaringul
on our people, but nothing comparatively to what E.
rope herself would suffer. MerCatOr" merchant 2ss
nom de plume implies, knows that Great Britain will
her five million people dependent upon American co,
ton for their scanty supply of food, continue
dispense with cotton for one single year--ber existence
as government would cease. Where else bat trOmtIq
cotton fields of the South can she obtain cotton where
with to feed her operatives? Has not her government
her cotton supply associations for the past thirty years
been making superhuman exertions to stimulate the pro-
ducton of cotton in India, Africa, South America and
the West Indies to free herself from the necessity Of
buying the slave grown cotton Of the South? Buthr
efforts have proved fruitess and ever will Cod in Biz
infinite wisdom, has blessed the people of the South
with climate, soil, and system OF labor, that exist
nowhere else on the globe.
Has not the sagacous the farseeing Emperor Of 1.-THE
French spent millions in Algeria to render France H.
dependence of this country in her supply Of Cotton
What has been the result Failure, disastrous failure
We doubt not that there are in all of the Cotton ports
many wealthy merchants possessed Of large balances
Banks and still larger Bank credits, who gladly nT@,
heavily in Cotton, with the present wide margin for
profit between the price of this staple in county
and Great Britain. But are we to surrender what We
perhaps enormously esteem high vantage ground for @
benefit of individual interest? We for one say enT
icaly no. We believe the sentiment of the people Of
the entire cotton region is, that sooner than one ballot
cotton shall leave shore before our independents
been acknowledged by the European powers, and our
government recognized as one of the family Of nat2
the torch should be applied to every gn-hou8e barn
and cotton field. Mercator " says that shipping
cur cotton to England would be the wsest course
adopt. What send our cotton to England or IatIs
permit British bottoms to enter our ports and take
Great Britain what she needs for her wants, and q
PEASANT, leave the trifing amount of million Of ta@
at st. Johns n. B., Halifax &C., and from these 02
re-shpped TO New York and Boston, to start into ac
operation the cotton mills of Lowell Lawrence &.'
and thereby furnish our loving Northern friends WV
bread and the means to cut our threats? We u1.
not. We have much more to say but have alat
tresspassed too far, and for the present will close
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