, 1861-08-20

August 1st, fcm which We make the follow.
ing extract:
Now, Is this cotton question great ques'
ton er not? 7 met spinner to day-he does
and asked him what be thought about it;
and he sid, swell, think cotton will come
somehow" [Laughterl And, find that
there IL that kind Of answer to be had from
They know that IN past shines, when cotton
has risen to 50 or 90 per cent, or some ex-
travagant rise, something has come com
mercal panic from some cause or other, and
down the price has gone, and when every
body said, 6 There would be no cotton at
Christmas" there proved very considerable
stock at Christmas. And so they say now. I
don't in the least deny that 1t will be so; ali
assert is. that this particular case ia new
that We have never had war in the
United States between different sections Of
that country, affecting the production
Of cotton before and it is not fair nor wise,
hut rather childish than otherwise, to argue
this, Of the event which ID nov passing beiora
cur eyes. They say, tt1t is quite true there
is civil in America, but it will blow over !,
there will be compromise, sr the English
Government will break tha blockade" Now,
rccollect what blockade means. It means q
war with the United States; and I don't
think, myself, that 1t would be cheap to break
tha blockade, at the cost Of war with the
United States. I think that the cost Of war
with the United States would give, proba.
bly,, half wages, for q very considerable time
10 those persons in Lancashire who wouli
he out Of work il there WAS no cotton. to
ssy nothing Of the manifest injustice and
wrong against all international law, that q
legal and effective blockade should be inter.
tered with By another country. It is not
exactly the business Of this meeting, but M
opinion Il, that the safety Of the product
On which this country depends rests
far more On the SUCCESS Of the Wash.
iEgton Government than upon it,
fa!ln.e; ard believe nothing could be
| more monstrous than tor us, who are not very
| aIerse to war ourselves, to set up for critics
! carpi1g, caviliug critics--nf what the Wash
| iDgton Government is doing, saw lette1
the other day from an Engliehman, resident
for twenty five years IN Philadelphia, mer
| chant there, and very prosperous merchant
| He Eaid, II prefer the institutions of thi;
country (he United states) very much K
sours in England - bat he says also, '.If it be
once admitted that here we have no country
and no government, but that any portion 0
| central government whenever it pleases, the1
| 1t is time for me to pack up what have, ani
| 60 somewhere where there is q country and
| government" Well, that is the pith Of thi
| question De yon suppose that it Lancashire
ard Yorkshire thought that they would b.saI
newspapers who are now preaching ever.
| kind OF moderation to the Goyernm ant o
Washington Wonld advise the Government il
London to allow those Two counties to Set u
special government for themselves Whel
tie people Of ireland asked that thsy shoalt
secede, Tas it proposed in London that the,
should be allowed to secede peaeea5ly
/ Nothing Of the kind, am not going to Dc
! fend what ia taking place in a Country that i
well able to defend itself. B1t advise you
and advise the people Of England, to abstai
from applying to the United States doctrine
own case. At any rate, they hare neye
fought for 1.-THE balance Of power" in Europe
They have never fought to keep up zeeayin
Empire. They have never sQuandered th
money Of their people in such phaatom ex
pediions as we have been engaged in. An
now at this momeet when you are tol
that they are going to be ruined by thei
vast expenditure, why the sum that the
are going to raise in the great enc
geneJ Of this grievous war is no greater tha
what NC raise every year during time
ment is to maintain their own corstitutis
!: snd to act legally, as It permits and require
No maa is more in favor Of peace than an
TO nan has denounced war more than hs7
| probably In the country. But cannot f
the life Of me see, upon any Of those princip1
: uEon which states are governed now s
nothing Of the literal word OF the New Test
ment-I carnot see how the state Of affairs
America, with regard to the United States Ga
einmeDt, could hare been different from what
is this moment We had heptarchy In tt
country, andit vas thought to bea good thi
Z to get rid Of it, and to have united natio
If the 81 Statss Of the American Union c
break eff whenever they like, can See moi
= irg but disaster and confusion throughout
/ whole Of that continent. / say that the r.
be it successful or no:, be it Christian or
be it wise or not, is war to sustain the Ct
= erEment and to sustain the authority o
= great nation and that the people Of Englal
ls # they are true to their own sympathies,
= their own history, and to their own great
d Of 1884, to which reference has already be
made, will hare no sympathy for those "
wish to build up great Empire on the perp
ual bondage Of millions of their fellow M
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