Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-24
THE AMERICAN CRISIS IN EUROPE
EngIand and the RloeIrnhe.

1t was briefly announced some days ago bv tele
graph, accommodating the news from Europe tbs
England had declared "the blockade fthe Soutber,
ports Intellectual" and that it was only real bIoclr
ade that foreign nations were bound to recognize
We are able TO supply the retcence of the teegrapl
BY giving below in full the article alluded To beng
leading editorial from the London Times
1t has been evident from the beginning of thu
American war that time must come lolter he free
eEpOrtation Of cotton from the Southern ports 7roJ
become serious question lsih L1rqs ciass iy I'm
land. All that has been said of the supplies which
may be brought from India, Egypt the West coas
Of Africa, and other places is no doubt true Their
are great fields Of cultivation, there are races suf
GENTLY skilled and Industrious to grow the plant
and there are capital and enterprise enough at
to turn theseo account But all this cannot be dome
in day. Cotton culture cannot be extemporiZed
on scale to supply the mills of England and Franc
and the Rhine and the Northern States of Ameriea
as well. The people must be reused to q new or q
more extended production, seed must be obtained
machinery, however, simple, must be provided
roads must be improved, transport organized. and
as men are not born cotton growers, the art of
rearing the variable and often Disappointing plant
must be learned by at least a short time Of proba
tivn.
In short two years are probably the shortest
time that would suffice to bring the worlds ener-
gies into play in the cultivation of cotton II ia
calculated that not fetoer Hdn 5000 600 souls. or
sixth of the population Of the British Isles are in
terested, in one way other, in the cotton mann
facture. All these, it has been certain from the
beginning must one day begin to feel the scarcity
OF cotton, and to cry out, If not from actual suffer
ing, at least from apprehension. There may be
cotton at sea from India and other parts of the
world, and it may be proved by complacent sta
tisticians that after certain time the mills of
Lancashire and Scotland will be independent Of the
slave grown produce; but what is to become Of the
millions of operatives in the meanwhile? What is
to become of the unhappy families who see atwo-
thirds time" dwindle down to half timeV and
then the factory gates CLOSING one after another,
while they themselves are left to wander to the
poor house or 'clemn in silence? Then there are
the manufacturers themselves, whose great estab-
lishments must be kept up at loss, when with all
their burdens, excep. wages, the same there are
only the profits Of two or three days work in the
week. It is not to be expected, therefore, that the
year will pass away without some agitation on the
part of the anxious and terrified cotton world of
the North.
Even now it is said that there prevails among
certain classes in Lancashire wish to see our Gov
ernment take more active part in American af.
fairs. The manufacturers are beginning TO be in |
lgnant that the great staple Of the world should be
and all Europe brought into discomfort |
Dr. actual want, in order that the ambitious States
IF the North should extend their sway over people
who have rejected it, and who, according to the
sanOns which American writers themselves have
sid down, should be s3lowed to choose their own
NsuLutloiis anu Work out the4r own destiny AS
he interest Of the peOplg IS ss for the most part
viii be their principles. Whatever may have been
he feeling of the Manchester world on slavery,
whatever may have been their opinions on English
Interference in foreign quarrels, they take in this
question the part of the cOttongrOwers of America
{ the North does not emancipate the slaves why
hould it forbid the transmission of the produce
which slavery gives to mankind? No principle is
involved in the contest, and so Eaglishmen they
hink may, with a safe conscience, take which side
hey ike. Their interests bid them to assist the
outh in getting their eargoes scrsss the Atlantic,
nd as we keep up large navy, it will be better
mplOyed in raising the blockade Of Charleston and