Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-10-21
IQlOrtester 4aiIg Syn.
CORN ANp corroN-wE1cH IS KING.

If any OF our readers have a suspicion that
there is any danger that England may inter
tere with the controversy between our govern.
ment and lis refractory subjects at the south,
we ask their attention to few facts which
should satisfy them that rebellion will receive
no aid from that quarter The cry OF the
south has been, Cotton is king, and we are
his prophets" The argument was short and
conclusive. England depends on her manu-
tacturers, and without cotton her mills must
stop and her operatives starve. She can get
cotton nowhere else, therefore she will raise
the blockade, even at the cost of war with the
United States, AMI take our cotton. The first
and obvious answer to this argument may be
found in the fact, that were England 10 attempt
to force the blockade, she would indeed get a
war but no cotton for we must accept war if
she thus forces it upon us, although we much
prefer peace, and when war has commenced
with England on the sea, how is the cotton
crop TO go out =?
In addition to an efficient naval force now
afoat we should at once cover the ocean with
our privateers TO capture whatever British
ships we could find. 1t requires a large fleet
of merchantmen to transport the cotton crop,
and supposing the cotton were all in bales
and at southern ports ready TO ship, and war
going on with England, 1t would seem that
cargoes outward bound. England wants cot
ton next winter and spring, il ever. Alter that
she can supply herself in India and elsewhere.
The cotton is now on the plantations, most OF
1t IN the Seed for want OF bagging to cove the
bales. The cottonocracy dare not carry il to
their ports ready for shipment in any quantity
because if they do, they know we shall seize
il, and so supply the demand How is England
to obtain the cotton, even were she willing TO
make the attempt No. England can have
war but cotton she cannot get i'll season for
her most pressing need with all the force she
can command. Looking at the question then,
as mere question of eXpediency England
will not attempt to obtain cotton in that way.
England looks TO her own interest wisely,
She has no wish to bow down to king cotton,
or to be dependent for the prosperity OF her
manufacturers upon the caprice Of rebels.
Does not she see that, If the Contederates had
now their ports open and under their own con
troll, they would load their cotton with export
duties enough to pay all the expenses of the
rebellion? Cotton is too arbitrary a master
to relieve English necessity without full pay.
But the manufacturers OF England are not
planning how to raise the blockade, or how to
get American cotton They are busily en-
gagged, like good, industrious thrifty people,
.hat they are, in schemes tor doing without
raising cotton they are building roads in In.
dia for transporting cotton, and sooner than
they can get a crop from the southern states
by forcing the blockade, they will, through the
arts OF peace, supply their wants from other
sources.
Then will John Bull disrespectlully twirl
his fingers about his venerable nose at Mr..
Jefferson Davis, with the suggestion that
though cotton may be king OF slaves, it is no
longer king OF Great Britain. And where will
then be king cotton And what will then be
the market value of king cotton coIored bi.
peds III those days? In a single year Of this
blockade the south will have upon lis hands
two crops ateo and LLe demand tor one es
sentaly lessened, and new supply spFingi0T
up from abroad. Then, instead of demanding
OF the nations to come through blood and car
mage and take their cotton at any cost, poor
Rebellion, If he lives so long, will be very
grateful for blanket and pair OF shoes for as
much cotton as anybody will please to take. .
No Cotton is no longer king Now let us
look at a humber and more republican power.
Corn may not be king, but at least he is
prominent candidate for the presidency Of the
universe. Great is war, and very useful are
soldiers but by the arts OF peace only can war
be maintained, and the spade and pillow are
more powerful than rifle and cannon
Look at England once more. Though her
agriculture is tie best in the world, only about
one-tenlh OF her population are engaged in it,
and they cannot supply the whole with food
England imports three hundred thousand bushels
Of gram day. through the year. This year
her crop is short and she needs much more.
The London Mark Lane Express OF Sept. 10Th
estimates that England's crop OF wheat this
year will fall short Of her supply by sixty four
millions OF bushels, and that France will be
compelled to purchase eighty millions of BUSH
els. This enormous quantity OF wheat, says
that paper, will make nine thousand cargoes
of one hundred and twenty thousand bushels
EACH Spain, Holland and Belgium, it is said,
will all be buyers, as well as France and En-
gland. France is already buying largely in
American markets. From August 25th to
August 18th, 100000 bushels OF wheat, and
5000 bushels OF flour were shipped from New
York TO Havre. The American crop, though
not very heavy, is abundant, far beyond OR
wants at the north. The English papers are
exhorting their government and their mer.
chants to look these facts in the face, and to Sc
cure at once, in American markets, a supply
before want stares them in the face, and ii is
too late to transport grain from the west.
Now look at these lacts, and say what is the
interest of England. Is it to interfere against
the Union, and so get neither cotton nor corn,
nothing but a war which shall desoate her
commerce, or is it to help US to a speedy res
toraton OF constitutional government, and the
friendly reciproclties of peace with the ma
tions
Our belief is that the London Times is not
the exponent of Englands opinion, whether, as
is whispered, that paper be owned by the
Rothschds OF not. We believe the heart of
England sympathizes with the north, with law
and order, with the higher civilization, with
freedom, and freedom Tor all classes, without
regard to color. Her government foolishly
Numbered in its haste to recognize the rebels
as belligerents, which decent regard for ma
tional courtesy would at least have postponed
till the arrival out of our new minister Mr.,
Adams. Still the English government is
usually wise and just, and her interest is with
us in tins controversy. Let us hope that she
may. soon see 1t 20 be so, and so conduct her
self i'll this time when we>are naturally over
sensitive to foreign criticism, that no jealousy
or hatred shall spring up between nations
connected by so many ties of interest. of feel.
ing and of blood. And lei the farmers. whose
duiy requires them to remain at home in this
crisis, understand that the strength of the ma
ton is with them, and that at this moment, the
highest security our government has for the
friendship Of foreign nations, is in the album
dance of the products of our soil.--NeW En-
gland Farmer.
A MUSICAL PHENoMENoN.-A letter from
Venice says that professional musician of
that place has discovered prodigy for which
there is probably no preCedent--a singer that