Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-04-19
lloIitital
From tho Philadelphia (romcy') Press.
a BRIGHT CONTRAST FOR DARK
TIMES

Cotton is King, 10 is gratifying 20 know ana
20 realize that the great staples Of the North
and the Northwest, our grain and pork, and
the other products so bounulully supplied by
Nature, have become so necessary to the peo-
/ pie of the Old World as to rescue us on this
side of the ocean from what must otherwise
have been universal bankruptcy. BY the ter
rible panic of 1857, a severe lesson was taught
Co the American masses, by which they have
amply profted. They were compelled to en-
force economy in all their relations Import
atious of foreign goods and wares had glutted
the market, and an enormous supply is still
ON hand We are. therefore, rendered doubly
indcpcudont-frst.b by the abundance of for
cgu goods "a our warehouses, and second, 10y
tho habit of saving. now familiar 90 all our
people Europe cannot do without our bread
stufs, and yet we can do without her manu-
hctures We send her wheat and corn and
pork and she returns MS, er Beccssitate, gold
and silver The consequence is, that in the abb
scncc of ali means for safe investment of
capital. the regular Government of the United
Statcs can throw itself upon the people In the
full assurance that all its demands will be
promptly responded o.; and hence, any meas
urc deemed necessary by Mr Lincoln and his
Cabinet, in the shape Of loans or Treasury
notes, is certain 90 be cnthusiasucaly sus-
aiuod.
Look at the other side Of the picture-to
that region where king Cotton relgns-
His majesty is embarrassed by ten thousand
difficulties Great Britain, though chiefly de-
pendent for It's supplies upon the Cotton
States, IS determined, at all hazards, to esta-
blish for herself other cotton fields, so as to
ba relieved from the annbyanccs and ruin
which result from the Il temper, the cxac-
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