The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15
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cotton - Distress Among Working
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London and Liverpool papers continue TO
be filled with dreadful accounts of starva-
tion and suffering in the manufacturing dis
trlcts, in consequence OF the lack OF employ
ment, resulting mainly from the counter
handing of orders from tie United States,
and the consequent suspension of labor.
There is loud call for the organization of
"relief societies." soup houses" ," fuel and
clothing associations" &c, in all the great
towns and cities. Nottingham is serious
sufferer. One of the journals states officially,
that " the number of il. door poor, at the
Poor House, exceed by 4l5 those for the
corresponding period last year, while the
outdoor recipients amounted to 2,Ol6 more
than last year. In comparison with last
week, there were more than l goo applicants
for out door relief"
The London Times, of the 10Th ult., alu-
ding to Lord Palmerstons speech at the re-
cent Southampton banquet, says:
The third topic dwelt upon by Lord
PalmerstCn is the future, if, indeed, we may
not say the actual disruption of the Amer
can Union. While Italy IS consolidating,
America is disintegrating That privilege
OF sing lie entire nationality which Italy is
shedding tears of blood to obtain, America
is tilngng recklessly away. The southern
states expected sympathy for their under
taking from the public opinion of this
country. The tone of tie press has already
done much to underceive Them and if any.
thing more is required, they have the assur-
ance of cur disapprobation from the person
whose public station gives him the right,
and whose intuitive sympathy with the
feeling of the nation gives him the power
better than any one to express its opinions.
The Liverpool Mercury, of the 18th ult.,
is frightened en- the cotton question. 1t
says:
What are we to do for cotton in the not
extravagantly improbable event of the dis.
ruption of the American Union leading to
general, or even partial, suspension of
the staple agricultural industry of the South?
In other words, supposing certain political
fcreboding8 (which no one can pronounce
entirely unfounded) TO be realized, what is
to become of the manufacture which sup
ports, directly or indirectly, some five mill
lions OF our population, and which supplies
full third OF our exports trade? For up
wards of four-ftths Of our annual imports
of the raw material Of this colossal manu-
facture we are indebted to a community
which appears at this moment to be on the
brink of political dissolution, and which is,
to say the very least, violently and danger
ously disturbed. What are we to do if, as
many expect, this most precarious source of
supply should suddenly fail US?
The London NeWs of the 18th ult.,
says:
AS every ship from an American port
brings fresh details which show the growth
of difficulties and complications, it is inevi-
table that we English should become in
creasingly anxious to discover what we
may expect in our connection with the
United States, and especially in regard to
continued supply OF cotton. Dismssing for
the present the new facts which relate only
to the politics Of the country, we may try
to see whether there is any light on the
prospects of commerce.
There is no use in Disgusting
the truth in such case and the plain
truth is that affairs in the United States
can take no turn which will not leave our
chances of cotton supply precarious in the
extreme.
What, then, must we do? We must
lose no time in promoting the growth of
cotton wherever it will grow. The obvious
method is to strengthen the hand of the
cotton supply association, and of every
society which can satisfy US of its ability to
grow what we want. within our own de.
pendencies or elsewhere. The case is in
our own hands. Austral or India could
give US all we want but not without some
pains on our own part. We must take
what we can get from America While pre-
pairing our crops; but We must be ready to
dispense with any amount of American cot
ton which cannot be got to grow in an att
nlosphere of political and social revolution.
The London Post, Of tie 18th, says:
We believe that the British government
would refrain from treating with such mis-
sionaries from the South until the new
President has had an opportunity of ex-
planning and acting upon his policy, and of
showing to the world whether or not the
free states of the North are willing, for the
sake of preserving worthless, unsubstan-
tial Union, to give indefinite extension to the
curse OF slavery. A maritime war, which
would destroy the cotton trade, and parayze
one great staple of the industry OF this
country, would be equally unpopular in
England and in the United States.
Whether the supply of cotton furnished
England, by the Southern States, can be
so readily and speedily replaced, may be
judged from the following paragraph from
the London Cotton Supply Reporter:
The amount of capital invested in the cotton
trade of this kingdom is estimated to be be-
tween f60,OOO,OOO and G70,OC0,O00 sterling,
$500, 900 600 to $4,000 C00) The cotton i'm
ported in 1850 amounted in value Counting
pounds sterling into dollars at five to one,) to
$3.50 0G0. coo, of which the United States fur