Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-21
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ths Csrolinas Florida ard AisEsms. These mills
must come to short time and Fem short time to
at"pfegss unless the pressurs nov put upon tbs
cotton = raae OF the South IS forthwith RELAXED.
IN urgIngI therefore, the expedieney@Of Joint
representation on this sabiset Nv the Governments
81 france and England to the Cabinet Of Washing
ton. We think We have shown that such course Is
justified By the interests Of commerce generally,
and that u specially concerns those States whose
destiuies are stu eonaded to The Federal Govern
ment-fhe relaxation eof the -hloel,ade of one or
more of the Southern ports. 80 IS 20 afford an CO
pcrtunity for the re-orenirS C the Cotton trade
Peei1s &c s = Be "a 1uTsrssbrZ duty. which 10
GoTsrn:-l22f q : c-1lI1e1 Ss2ta aGaGd iacur ths
-ezro1sstilitJ e zsf1sI7E ldT-s L1csln's GoTeru-
ssst Essd cot Be told thai Eeszsas 50 tzsda with
te ezsssy-zoF as Wheaton calls men lawful re-
IaxatioT OF the ordinary ststs OF WaF'-kave been
granted before now, and with far less reason that
can be urged for the extension OF such privilege
to certain ports of the Southern Confederation.
The considerations which urge the adoption Of such
course are these Of political and commercial ex-
pediency, involving interests Of trade and Of IA
tional prosperity greater thar were ever eOnceR-
trated even in q leading branch Of commerce.
The atrOciOus response BY the New York lines to
this demand of "a first class commercial authority"
is in keeping with the policy Of the LINCOLN Cow
eminent. The threat of war Of determination
upon the South is but an echo Of LNCoLN's aVoWal
in his canvass with Judge DoUGLAS for the Senator
ship from Illinois. Il is the policy which the more
bold of the LINCOLN organs, like the Tunes, now
advocate:
From the New York Times, Juys
Among extracts from London journals repro
duced on another page, one drawn from the ship
pinq and Mercantile Gazette a frstclsss commercial
authority, indicates that England begins to grow
restless under the stoppage of American cotton sup
plies. After vain attempts 70 persuade herself that
the plant could be grown as successfully and abun
dainty in her ow colonies as in the United States
she turns desparingy 70 the old sources; aud abso-
lutey claTOrs vith cOyetous impgtence che sees
piled upon the leTees of New Orleans, and the
Wharves Of Charleston, those bales Of "nocenient
NATTER for the want Of which her millions must
presently perish. The Gd1etts demands that meas
ures be taken to induce the National Government to
relax the blockade far as to permit the OxpOrta
ton Of cotton. To achieve this concession Il sug-
gests Joint application Of the British and French
cabinets and after limiting at arguments which
might be brought to bear upon Mr.. Lincoln, if re-
frsctory, leaves the alternative adoption OF force
The simple rsloinder to such stuff as this is that
the United States will only permit the ougO Of cot
ton when overwhelmed and stricken down by
greatly superior force While 1t IS OF vital impOr-
lance to the monetary interests Of France and Eng
land to receive the fibre. it Is Of equally vital I'M
portanee to the existence and welfare Of this Gov
eminent that not a shred Of it be sent from the
Southern ports. There need be no misunderstand-
ing about this matter. The Southern cOnspiratOrs
based the whole scheme Of their contemplated re-
keEion upon this foreign hunger for cotton. They
estimated its strength irresistible, that no
blockade or legislation 10 shut it in, would be re-
spected By the great European Powers; and that Its
certain release would not only give new and indie
pendent life to their productive industry, but fur
nish them with the otherwise unattainable means
of prosecuting their war upon the Government
There is no occasion to question the force of this
reasoning We st the North take il at its full value.
IL England or France, or both, possess themselves
of the cotton crop the task Of restoring the national
authority in the insurgent States must, unless py
an extraordinary national effort, secome extremely
difficult if not hopeless and. st all events, its full
flment must be the exhaustive work OF years.
Practically allied with the leading EarOPean Gov
eInments, and furnished with ample revenues, and
something which they have not now 10 offer, as Sc
eurity for credits, the managers Of the rebellion
would be able to prOtract their resistance until the
resources of both parties should be anninated.
There is no element Of cur strength. therefots
so invslusble this barrier We are enabled to IN
terpose TO the escape of cotton To saerlnee u az
the instance of diplomacy would be 70 disarm the
nation az an act Of courtesy. And 10 the pressure
of force il can never be sacrificed. The hrst mt
nation Of design on the part OF foreign power
to compel the expectation, would unite the entire
North in resolution that not one bale OF the staple
should ever again be grown on American sOlli thst
the weed itself and the peculiar industry deemed
requisite for its culture, must be swept from the
Continent AID 70 put this resolution in force the
whole of our free people would preeipicate them
selves ca nldSSs upon the South 50 that by con-
summste work of desOlatIOH thsy might avenge
themselves at once upon the slave drivers OF LsI-
cashire and Louisiana This is the spirit with which
we have entered the contest and it will only become
intensified unuttersbly by any foreignin. prevention
adverse to its aims.
The Shipping Gqzeiis, and all who sympathize IN
its views had better therefore realize al once that
no pressure applied 10 the North and no Interter-
enoe with its pOliev, an expedite the delivery
of cotton. 1t is not d.ed, the Government OF the
Union which now stops the way. We have closed
but ore outlet the other has been vindietvey, put
with suicidal stupidity, closed by the South Itself
Il will be much more to the purpose At the cotton
craving Governments Of Europe let these perpatet-
ie Commissioners Of the South now at Paris under
stand that they expect Leither sympathy or rec
ogaitiOn unli IS they permit their staple TO no"
Il ugh inland channels to New York, whence inc
wns of the world may be partially supplied, with
out weakening the loyal effort Of the North to rees-
tsblish National Government. For the whole val
ne of the crops fer two years viii not pay the m
debtedness to the Northern people which the South
has substantially repudiated and Justice would thus
be satisfied without treason receiving parueie OF
nOurishmeut.