The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-10-26

the demand for one essentially lessened,
and new supply springing up from
abroad. Then, instead of demanding of
the nations to come through blood and
carnage and take their cotton at any cost
poor Rebellion, if he lives so long, will
be very grateful for a 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 humber and more repub-
lican power. Corn may not be King,
but at least he is a 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 the
Plough are more powerful than rife and
cannon.
Look at England once more. Though
her agriculture Is the best in the world,
only about one-tenth of her population
are engaged in it, and they cannot sup
ply the whole with food. England
imports three hundred thousand bushels
of grain day, throughout the year.
This year her crop is short and she needs
much more. The London Mark Lane
Express, of September 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 bushels. This enormous quantity of
wheat, says that paper, will make nine
thousand cargoes of one hundred and
twenty-eight thousand bushels each =
Spain, Holland, and Belgium, it is said,
will all be buyers, as veil as France and
England. France is already buying
largely in American markets. From
August 25th to August 2Sth, 100000
bushels of wheat and 5000 barrels of
flour were shipped from New York to
llavrc. The American crop, though not
very heavy, is abundant, far beyond our
wants at the North. The English papers
are eXhorting their Government aud their
merchants 10 look these facts in the face,
and to secure at once, in American mar
kets, a supply before want stares them
in the face and it is too late to transport
grain from the West.
Now, look at these facts, 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 desolate her commerce,
or is it to help us to speedy restoration
Of constitutional government, and the
friendly rcciprocities of peace with the
nations!
Our belief is that the London Times
is not the exponent of England's opinion,
whether as is whispered, that paper be
owned by the Rothschilds or not. We
believe the heart of England sympathizes
with the North, with law and order, with
the higher civilization, with freedom, and
freedom for all classes, without regard
to color. Her Government foolishly
Numbered in its haste to recognise the
rebels as belligerents, which decent
regard for national 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
this controversy. Let us hope that she
may soon see it to be SO, and so conduct
herself, in this time when we are natur
ally over-sensitivc to foreign criticism
that no jealousy or hated shall spring W
between nations connected by so many
ties of interest, of feeling, and of blood
and let the farmers, whose duty require:
them to remain at home in this crisis
understand that the strength of tho
nation is with them, and that at thi
moment the highest security our Govern
mcnt has for the friendship of foreig'
nations is in the abundance Of the pro-
ducts of our soil.