Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-12-07

between the raw material exported and importel
without calculating what we consume ourselves.
over e220 coo, you Will be able to form an ise
Of the amount lost to the manufacturing popusfie
Of this country. (Hear hear) wish to be cles
on the point Of figures, because there have bee
some doubts thrown upon them. but they have bee
COLLECTED from the returns Of the Board Of Trad
1t viii give you, perhaps, clearer idea of the vas
amount OF produce exported when tell you tbs
simply as regards plain calico, s23 600 600 wort
. alone is exported, and Of plain sewing cottoI
9 100000; produce affecting not only Lancashire
but other districts such as Lansrkshire It has bee
. said BY people holding strong notions, that on
. operatives ought to stsrve all the winter, rathe
tnan we should interfere In the quarrel that is
taxing place. am the last person to ask thi
country to interfere in any quarrel in which th
United States are engaged; but cannot view it il
that hght-I merely look 70 Whist VIII be the suffer
lngs Of the manufacturing population, and ask yol
10 give your confidence TO that Government which
will mitigate the evil arising from it,
/, as an humble member of the House of Com
mons. am not going to place my opinion against tha
Of Earl Russell whose judgment is so much though
Of BY all Europe but must say that if it is neces
saTy for the Government to interfere in the ouarre
for the sake of aeviatiDg the distress Of the 1Opu
Istion at home, shall certainly give them my bes
support 1t is also said we should not interiors
because the Northern States are against slavery
but that is question imported into the matter by
interested parties which shall be able TO show Won
IS not only gross error, but that they ought to
know that it is So 1t s very true thatslavery exists
only IN the Southern States but the North has ever
fully recognized it an institution and has never
entertained any idea of putting an end to it. The
question Of slavery in the United States is one ofla
bor and, though having great horror of slavery
myself must admit that it is backed up by men Of
the Northern States because if It were abolished
they could not profit by it. The question of slave
~ wss brought prominently forward in the Cons
gress Of America in the year 1890 when at that
time, two thirds of the Congress were Northerners
and will read you q resolution passed by thar
body which was, first Of all, submitted to commit
tee Of seven six Of whom were Northerners and
only one Of them was SOutherner. That resolu-
luton was subsequently passed unanimously By the
whole Congress. 1t was thus:
" That Congress have no authority to interfere In
the emancipation Of slaves or in the treatment of
them in any Of the Ststes it remaining with the sew
era States alone to provide rules and regulations
therein which humanity and true policy may re-
quire"
1t is true that it was after that date that we in
kngland took so prominent part in the emancipa-
ton of slavery but after the whole matter had bsen
almost accomplished by US, what was he feeling of
North America? Why, l find that that most distin>
guished man, Dsniel Webster, who represented Mas
sachusetts as Senator said in $780, with regard 70
this very resolution which have adopted:
"Fhe House agreed to insert these resolutions in
its journal and from that day to this it has never
Congress
any authority to regulate interfere with the con
dition Of slaves in the several States"
He was at that time contending against 8 feeling
which the South expressed that they thought there
was q wish on the part of the Northern States ts
abolish slavery, and he, as the leading man of the
Northern States, and speaking in their name 80 far
from eondemning slavery, denied that there was
any wish On their part to abolish it. 1t was not
till the year 1884 that slavery was abolished IN our
colonies, and some might fancy thst the North lad
followed our example. But most important oues-
ton arose. About eight or nine years ago the Esg-
hsh Government objected to the State of South Car
ina seizng the negroes who came into port in our
vessels and OBTAINING them in prison I'll the ship q
which they had arrived had again sailed. This was
to the United States Government who.
however, replied that it was no question for them
but one between England and SoEth Carolina; /
and 80 it had to be arranged. But a. that
very time, what did the United States Con
yr<ss do! Why, so far from expressing any sym
Dathy with England in the matter, they passed a /
solemn act in which they utterly refused to inter-
ere in the quarrel and re-enacted the resolution I
If 1899. 1t was only three days ago that saw in
he Times and other papers letter from Ex Presi.
lent Buchanan who WAS lately Ambassador in this Il
country, citizen also Of the Northern States in /
which he says that the object of the war g is solely
or the purpose Of bringing back the Southern
'tates to their original position in the Union with
ut impairing any of their constitutional rightsn-
hat is TO say, that he for one will not sanction the
ssertion thst if they bring back the Southern
tstes they will sbDish slavery. Again, General
fremont, man of great influence, thought that he
Tould assume line Of conduct for himself and
aid be would iberate the slaves Of al those in
ebellion; but he WAS ordered By the President
lr. Lincoln, to contradict this proclamation
laks this observation to show that there il no
ruth whstever in the rumoF Of any intention on
be part Of the Northern States to abolish slavery
y this quarrel.
l. =, L,-E.- 4 ]
ut simply how we are to obtain cotton where :
nth to feed cur large manufacturing population !
may be ssid that we have nothing to do with
0ttOn that we going to be happy in Essex ali
le winter spend merry Christmas, and we ought ]
let the people of Lancashire starYe until all is
lue but shall endeayOr to show you that you !
re directly concerned
find that owing to this quarrel, besides cotton
-eat portion of our mercantile transactions bes :
veen this country and America are 4 stand still
axe the case Of tea~eups and pls which are :.
.sfOrdshre ware. In August e Artielt .
ere exported to the value of ~ 3; iXAje1]s
the same month, 1861, the gti6ns tyt :
mounted to the worth Of l65I4 tids; therefore i
ere was so much less work in the StaffOrdshire u
,tteries. In haberdashery the SxpQRRS0f AugRst. =
at year, amounted TO l23 720 pouf6sg lint Ia this
ar only to SO $50 pounds; ia liIsns, in the \
me months, the difference was from 22s,l19
unds, to 1920 pounds; in the iron market the u
Mount had decreased 70 almost nil; for I033S NJ
unds; bar iron exported In August, last year, is
ere were only $50 pounds for this year. Passing =
to other manufactures, l find that for 27,7l2l
lions of seed oil exported in the same months in
go, there was this year none; of spirits, 1886
lions to 1000; of bitter beer 1858 barrels to 993
d of butter, IS 546 cwt to 1875. Thst shows
at not only the Gotten, iron, and earthenware in
rests are concerned, but that the agriculturists
not export as they have been in the habit Of =
ing
Then it is said that the Southern States have no
int whatever to secsde. Now that is q question
,on which Englishmen would not differ very
leh for they are fond of local Government; and a
not ct all certain that, if England formed por~
n of another territory she would long recognise =
1t power. l wish to show you that the right of :
cession has long been recognized by the statesmen
America When that country first formed an
gsnization against England to obtain their liber-
they appointed Benjamin Franklin to draw up
'tices Of Confederation. The second article he
sw up was, that 'the United Colonies hereby en-
into firm leagu- of offriendship with each other,
ldi1g on themselves and their pOsterity." Well,
IS was sent forward to a committee of the Repre-
natives Of the several States, and they altered
first words Of the article as follows: 1.-The said
lones u1t9 themselves so as never to be divided ss
any act whatever, and hereby seVeraly," &c 4