New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-21
THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.
A HARD WINTER AIIEAD-PLAIN TALK TO BRIT
tsn RTITHs-EADICNi RTrORM DEMANDED.

Prom Ths Io7lof Sfs, Nor. :.
The Winter Of our disceutent Il last succeeding
10 a Sumner and Autumn oi exceeding beauty. The
brown leaves but slowly fall from the well-clnd
trees for, till the other gay, they have had no rude
winds 10 shake them down. Now We may expect
10 find them roting on every oycrshadowed path and
rural road for the wind and the rain have come to-
aether. ShIpWrecks begin % sirew northern
coass and feeble chests quail before the damp and
cold. Extra food and cloihng. with war1n fires and
sound roofs, again csfentials If healthy hie-Eoi
less 70, cheerful OCCUPATION AMI SOCIAL JOYS. Bot 10
thousaLd. o. English households the prospect Of OBJ
tanning these becomes disuially unccriuin "a the
season advances. Despite the good harye-i and the
toaDerrial treaty. the wants OF the people H. It -
10 be feared guealiy exceed their supply Of nature
bouutes. Yet il tie drrSb purely artificial one.
Ii is not a scarcity of iood fuel which threatens
u Neither is there a1y diminuiion IN the rftgTzl
,upply OF the raw material for clothing. Neither
corn coal nor cottonthe three gTca, necessAries Of
civilized hfe-suiers from any natuul calamity. We
want nothing bnt the usual uninterrupted flow OF ri-
fc between Europe and America let tho ordinary
interchange of exports and imports take place and we
shall have cause to dreaj tho severity OF winry
cold or the gloom of winiry nights. Christmas would
be as merry and the new year ~ welcome as oil wont
and usal e. but for the accur-ed intervention OF po
ljical passions between the customary goodness Of
C;od and the permanent wants OF mankind. IL that
Intervention cOntnue-if the blockade OF the Amer
lean harbors ast through the dead OF the yeartbtr
il saying to what extremity Of suffering we may
IL
.erve, humanely admonishes liz work. oope to re.
trench as lar possible their domestic expenditure
a. the mill cannot be kept open beyond January il
the present situation Ice maintained. Tie ehip il
entering the stormy latudes al the wort season.
Bare poles and srort iiops mui ie the order Of the
day until lair weather return aud smoother seas be
reached.
But how are we TO enforce this saluiary order
There too many among III who are l,ellishly or
n,anely bent Oh carrying Toll sail, and enjoying I'M
ip.lnl In nj. as,.rds la
thors Of the evil under which suffer in author
ity over us, and will not surrender their ill-used
power, unlees compelled by the stern summons of the
Ieople. Ii cannot be too widely known, TOO well
remembered that the blockade IL much more the
work OF the English than Of the American Government
that the latter offered to renOunce the right Of
terruptiDg commercial intercourse by warlike opera
lions aud the former refused entertain the propo
sal Ii this fact were effectively communicated TO
every group OF prOtilefs capitalists, and unem-
ployed or half-employed workmen, throughout the
cotton districts, II would not fail 10 produce
such "a tempest Of indignant discomfort IA would
sharter stronger Government than that OF Lord
PalmeIson. But il is much 10 be desired that 10
snch feeling there should be wise and firm guild
ance. IL would be- Of little avail TO overthrow
Minister or TO censure a particular act. Tie thing
wanted il such reform VI our whole political sys
TEN rs would insure against the further sacrifice
Of great national interests to The capIice policy OF
a dominant class. No sensible politician will pre-
tend that tie people sufficiently enlightened
always to prefer the dictates Of reason 10 the im-
pulses OF prejudice or passion. But that Ii true Only
of the people rs OF special classes; aud the former
are surely as much entitled as the latter 10 the
protection OF their earnings from plumber by unjust
taxation, or unwisc slatesmanship. or mistaken
legslaiOn. 1.-THE claim be firmly asserted, il cannot,
AT any rate be long resisted IL has lain dormant,
or has been but leebly pressed, during times OF com
para,ive prosperity. DO our rulers hope that il will
not be raised and urged energetcay ii not angIily,
in a season like that ON which we have entered
They may not know that in any the session of
1861 would not he suffered 10 arrive until the qucs
ton OF Reform had been once more moood through
out the length aud breadth OF the land. The con
ference to be- held at Leeds the 18th and 18th OF
this month would have been held IL there were 10
cotton CRIES, 10 distress industrial discOn-
lent The national petition proposed by the
Reform associations OF London, birmingham, New
castle, and many other towns, would have been
pushed forward under any condition. Distress may
A.. mulate the most apathetie, but thoughtful and
es,uest men require no such spur. There are
enotg h OF these in The country 10 keep tde spai Il
aaloS until events arise to ian IL into hame. 1bcy
have never suffered toe question 70 die, and they
NAV now look for their reward. They have sought
e.peciay 10 arouse The working classes TO the nm
poTtaneu On Gsing though all constitutional modes