New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-23
A LOOK FORWARD.

seven 10 twenty. eight hundred cotton factories III
Great Britain; that the whole value oi the man
uiaeiures for the past year was not less than
SIS 600, 900, or S375, ,0o0,0G0, and that the num-
Dor of persons employed therein can cot be much
less than 0OOOO, about oue-sixth of whom are
children, or very young persons. The supply OF
Cotton t. meet the demand Of this important
| branch of commerce was, in 1860, 3,366,6S6
bales, of which 2,5sO,Sl3 bales came from the
| United States The bare statement of these sta.
| tatics are enough 60 show the importance OF
| this Cotton question to the British people and
| Government
Nor is it lott sight Of or forgotten. The cult.
ya,ion of Cotton in India TO supply an spprc-
| hcndcd deficit from this country was topic OF
debate in the House Of Lords on the 3lst uls.;
! which the Earl of Ellenboroush terminated BY
| SAYING that he ssw in it g the proof that her
| " Maiestys Government do not comprehend tue
| {" extent of the danger with which We are threat
" encd, aud that they are not prepared 10 n'ee''
4" q. they ought, tho emergency that has arisen.
To which her Majesty's Government pignt nave
| very properly answered that tho noble Earl dia
| it less than justice.
He did il less than justice, II seems to us, for
the difficulty plainly is, not that tho Government
does no, spprcbcnd the emergency, but thai 1t is
| st 4 loss 10 know how TO deal with 1t. so anx-
! ious have Ministers bsen in regard 10 It, tha.
they have run romo risk Of disturbing the ami
cable relations between thor own Government
and our, lest solse misconstruction 'hould be
put upon their conduct BY that great Southern
Coutderocy which, they hsd been taught TO be.
lieys for months BY such newfpspers u ihe Aee'
York H,rold and such official gentlemen ~ hr.
Fernando Wood, was about 20 completely absorb
the present Union, aud probably substitutc for
our present Constitution On instrument made and
adopted at Montgomery BY jeff Davis ard his
co consj,irators. Tha. mistake her MsJestys
Minister'S have already partially corrected and
VIII correct altogether Il neccssaryi bet ne nn-
ieTnsSth their action hen, ~ underneath
their action now, il Cotton. They feared
then lest tire great Southern Coniederscy
resentft Of their hesitstion TO acknowledge her
acquai intance, would deny them Cotton; they
fear now, VIXEN IL is becoming a. evident to
them that southern Ccniederacy is no mere
ro~ble within our borders than the Constellation
Of tho Southern CIOss shall become visible in
,isso a,Iudes, that We may recent an ndignity
| and stop supplies. The EDshuh are proud
! people, and wc do not dUabt that when the
| great middle class come TO understand the condi-
ton of affairs here, they will give us their
heartbeat sympathy, because thoy viii have
learned that our cause ia the cause Of Liberty
and good government. But in the mean time,
the drab- gathered manufacturers OF Manchester
and the ether great cotton-spnning towns OF
Great Britain ore the only seeming representa-
lives OF public opinion. and they have no higher
| guide than that consideration which at tho mo-
r,ent seems most lkely 10 affect yarns.
And they certainly have reason enough to he
slarmed for the future, if they cannot look he
yond single year. For tho noxt year there are
two serious considerations; fret, how much cot
ton there may be. and secondly, how much of il
| may got to EDgland. Upon tao iirst queOtOn it
| is difficult 10 form q correct judgment. Reason
ing from considerations of prOTidence, economy,
snd scund statesmsnship the South ought not,
the present season, TO raise two millions OF balvs
Of cotton. Ii she were governed by wiae and
proyident rulers, or If the people themselves
| understood their present position, and were in
earnest in maintaining it, she would have reflected
months ago that there was nothing for it bht a
| desperate war before her. the very Grst result Of
which would be to isOlato her from az the
world. Her first necessity, she knows, is food,
| aud tho second clothing, and cotton AZ means
| ~ purchase either would be useless without
the irccst intercourse with the North and oil the
world beside. But that, che ought TO have
known before cotton.seed was dropped, was
impossible if she brought on this war, and the
mere instinct Of hunger should have prompted
her 10 turn her Industry TO ths raising OF food,
| and to have let cotton alone. Bat has she done
sol We doubt; wa doubt, first, whether she
| bsa the praicncoj and, second, whether she had
| the psTer. Her want of foresight may DO eS-
cGFcd. in part, by tue fact FRAT 'he placed greet
relisnce On Northern treason to sbct her own,
and did not therefore aPpfehend tho complete
| isolas.on which must irogitatly befall her; hut
smart from That, she was 90 bcsotted BY tho idea
| that Cotton 10 Eios, that her own arrogance 40
blinded and beiooLgd her, that ske- is utterly in
eap,tle Of foretsought or foresight, or oF con-
pretending at all her just and natural rcls'ions,
| as a separate community, 10 the rest OF the
world. Rut beside al this il il thing OF time
| and os difficulty TO tarn The industry Of people
into row channeis, oud even II tho pIa.iors were
penurdcd of DC necessity of Iaisng food instoad
| az eo.tcu, IL would fret bo slrnos: upossbi. W
CONVINCE tho oyetsecrs--quto ss important, If not
,u.r. an than the masters IN plantation manage.