The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-08-28

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remain very truly, isno arl
Your obcdient servant,
| .HEs8 asi @ JAMES w. GRiMEs
To F. w. Brooks, J. H. Gear NJ. s. Foot
J. S. Schramm, J. N. Baxter, w. F. Cool.
baugh. T. w. Newman. j. L. Corsc, A. W.
Carpenter, Joshua Copp, VIM Garrett. w
Fl. Mauro. John G. Foot, j. P. Wigh,man,
A. j. Messenger, and other citizens of Bur.
ling'on
john Bright on OWr Troubles
and the Cotton Question.
Mr.. John Bright mad speech in Roch-
dale. August lst, from which we make the
following extract. n .a.. ....,
snow, is this cotton question great ques.
tion or not / met spinner to day--he
does not live in Rochdale, though met him
here and asked him what he thought
about it and he said, "Well, think cotton
will come somehow" Laughterl And. I
find that there is that kind of answer to be
had from three out of four of all the Spinners
you ask. They know that in past times.
when cotton has risen TO so or 60 per cent,
or some extravagant rise, something has
come-a commercial panic from some cause
Or other, and down the price has gone, and
when every body said, "There would be no
cotton at Christmas" there proved verv
considerable stock at Christmas. And SO
they say now. don't in the least DENY
that it will be so all assert is, that this
particular case is new that we have never
had war in the United States between diff
ferent sections of that country, affecting the
production Of cotton before and it is not
fair or wise, but rather childish than other
wise, to argue from past events, which were
not bit like this, Of the event which IS now
passing before our eyes. They say, ''Tt is
quite true there IS civil war in America,
but it will blow over, there will be a com.
promise, or the English Government will
break the blockade" Now, recollect what
blockade means. 1t means war with the
United States and T. don't think, myself,
that it would be cheap to break the blockade.
at the cost ofa war with the United States !;
I think that the cost Of war with the United
States would give probably, half wages, for
a very considerable time. to those persons
in Lancashire who would be ont of work If
there was no cotton, to say nothing Of the
manifest injustice and wrong arainst all in
ternational law. that legal and effective
blockade should be interfered with by ar.
other country. IT is not exactly the bust
ness Of this meeting, but nv opinion is, that
the safety Of the product on which this
country depends rests far more on the sue
cess Of the Washington Government than
upon its failure and delieve nothing coull
be more monstrous than for us, who ere not
very averse to war ourselves, TO set up for
critics-carping caviling critcs--of what
the Washington Government is doing. I
saw letter the other day from an Ergish.
man. resident for twenty five wears in Phia-
deiphia, merchant there. and a very prns
porous merchant He said, 81 prefer the
institutions ofthe country (tha United States
very much to yours in ENGLAND - but he
saws also. 'If it be once admitted that here
we have no country and no government, but
that any portion of these United States can
break off from the central government when
ever it pleases, then 1t is time for me to pack
up what have, and go somewhere where
there is country and government Well,
that is the pith Of this question. Do you
suppose that if fLancashire and Yorkshire
thought that they would break off from the
United Kingdom. that those newspapers
who are now preaching every kind of mode.
ration to the Government Of Washington
would advise the Government in London te
allow those two counties to set up srecis
government for themselvesg When tn
pnople of ireland asked that thew should So
cede, was it proposed in London that they
should be allowed to 'cede peaceahly Moth
ing Of the kind. am not going to defnd
what is taking place in country that Is wei
able to defend itself But advise you. ant
advise the people of England, to ahstair
from applying to the United States, doctrine
and principles which we never apply to ou
own case. At any rate. they have neve
fought for "the balance of power in Europe
They have never fought to keep up decay
ing Empire. They have never squandere,
the money Of the people in such phantom
4 expeditions as we have been engaged in..-
And now at this moment when you are toll
that they are going to be ruined hy thei
vast expenditure, why the snm that they ar,
going to raise in the great emergency Of thi
grievous war is no greater than what "
raise every year during time Of pace. Th
Iobiect Of the Washington Government is 4
maintain their own constitution, and to nc
legally, as it permits and requires. No ma,
is more in favor Of pence than Tam: no ma
has denounced war more than have prob
ably in the cnuntry. But cannot for tn
life Of me see. upon any Of those principle
upon which states are governed now-I sa,
! nothing Of the literal word Of the New Tes
tament--I cannot see how the state OF affair
in America. with regard to the United State
Government, could have been different iror