The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-11-15

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The most Alarming of.sA
editorials Is that pestaiaias 10 n {
cotton pressure upon .skS 8msnul
government. The. 1hpnd~yr, ol
October 81, says: NitLhlf a
Two. years ara prohshIy. IL w.
est time that wonld snfIice 70 bI.s
the world's energies into play ID -
cultivation OF cotton Il n csicnikS6
thst not ,ewer thsh 5,00O.OOe 49,
or sixth of abe i,opslaties4 4ok -
British isles. sre interested, II 60
way or the other in the cotton man,
ufacture. All these, Il has sen
certain from the beginning, must ooSs
day begin to feel the scarcity Of soeSs
ton, an to cry out, II not from acs6Als
suffering, at least from apprshensIoa. !
There may be cotton at sea from
lndia and other parts Of the wofid,t
and u may be proved by comylsiceusD
statisticisns that after a certain time,
the mills of Lancashire and scotland
will be Independent Of the s!ave.
grown produce; but what is to bess
come of the millions OF operatives In :
the meanwhile What is to become
OF the unhappy families who SEQ
1.-TWO thirds" dwindle to "half Time"
and then the factory gates closing
one after another while they them. :
selves ar" .eit to wander 10 the poose
house Or 'clem" in silenctl Then
there are the manufacturers them.
selves, whose great establishment :
must be kept up at loss, when, q
with all their burdens, except wages, .
the samo, there are only the profits
OF two or three days work 10 The
week. ltis not to I've expected, therc.
ore. that the year will pass away
without some agitation on the part
of the a. xions and hall terrified cot
ton world oi the North. T.
After describing the zeal with
which the Lancashire cotton men
are urging the breaking OF the block
ade, the Tmes continues:
1t may. then, be conceived thai
the proposal to break the blockade,
spoken OF for the present In whis-
pers, but likely shortly TO be dis.
cnssed in a louder tone. will be a
strong encouragement to the con-
federates to persist in their resist-''
ance. At the present time, when il
seems likely that campaign 10 to
begin on a scale such as Europe has
seldum seen. and when it is possible
that the North may avenge Bull run
in one or two bloody battles, the at .
ltitude Of party in England which
holds out hopes OF foreign interfer-s
ence cannot fail to be a matter OF
great Importance. Adverse iorture
may he forgotten, a doubtful fight
may be turned into Q victory, when
Iit is thought that the South has only.
to hold ont for few months longer.
and to keep it's cotton safe on its
plantrtions. in order to bring to its
side the largest navy in the world. b
We would remind the government OF
Washington that it is only real
blockade that foreign nations are
bound to recognize. But, We must
slso remind our Lancashire friends-
that the event also shows that tho
emitting off Of tho cotton supplies h
that work Of the South a. much as Of
the North. II ships can get in, they
can also get out, and. II the South
desires to send us cotton, II has not
lacked the opportunity. But 1t
seems to be quite true that all cotton
lexportation has been forbidden By
the confederate government in order
th,t foreign nati"ns may bc fOreedto
take side in the quarrel. 1t would
i'll become England to mako herself
the tool OF such Vaccinations 10 u. 'o