Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-13

The present consumption of raw cotton In Brit
ish frctories as stated very able paper on the
subject in the April number of the westminster
Rerieto probably amounts TO 81 600 bales per week
of which about 40 900 bales are American We're
prices to prove this present year rs low as they
were last summer, they might demand OF the South
ern Confederacy, and use in Britain, as much as
46 600 bales per week. The - g crop OF the South
for the season of 1880, reached 675770 bales;
it has not been calculated even should peace be
preserved here, that it would rise above 100000
this year. But Mr. Lincoln undertakes to say il
shall amount to nothing Is there any man, or is
any Black Republican, insane enough to suppose
Great Britain will tolerate such prohibition for
moment-thst the most selfish, grasping, unscrupu-
ous nation the world has seen since the fall of i'm
perIal Rome, will allow so MANY millions of her
people to sarFe and rise in Instruction. her ccra
ard manufactures the basis of her greatness,
TO be ruined one-third of her entire foreign trade
to be wiped out, and her power revolutionized, to
crafty all the Presidents of all the Republics in
the world.
There can be only one answer to this. Every
man in his senses can give thst answer. per
sisteDce in blockadng the Southern ports, so to
prevent the egress of cotton. will involve the Lin
coin Administration in war with Great Britain
just as surely and az soon as the cotton crop is
ready in September next Great Britain will say to
Mr. Lincoln, with exceeding blandness, doubtless,
1T is all very we'll sir. to talk about rebellion and
the rights Of belligerents, ali very WE'LL indeed but
it don't answer our purposes. We must have cot
ton. Open your ports, or else we shall open hem
for you'll You are not strong enough for US TO be
afraid of nowI
Bullet US look, for moment, at a single other
product of the slavehelding States-tobacco.
Upon tobacco the Government of Great Britain
-leTies heavy duty-seyenty-two cents per pound.
This impost, as we learn from tabular statement
prepared for this paper by a gentleman of entire
reliability and correct information. and which
published day or two since, brings in one eighth
Of the entire revenue of the British Government
This impost in fact, amour ted in the year 1850 10
thlrtyfour or thirty five millions of pounds sterling
levied exclusively upon totac 20 raised in what
now the "Rebellious" Confecer
In France tobacco is a Government monopoly,
and Louis Napoleon derives from American tobac-
co q revenue rising $4,000 900 per annum-about
One>half of all his Government obtains from duties
upon -inpo IS
Several tobacco laden ships from Virginia have
already been captured and confiscated by Mr. Lin
coins blocxadine lvadron We can O. but thi
TINS capture deliberately purpused by the
southern Authorities, in order TO open the eyes of
Gercia and political interests by means Of this clos
~ of the Southern ports. The news of these cap
lures will show the two great allied powers OF
Western Europe, together with Spain, (Which not
ONLY now consumes almost as much of our tobacco
as France, but also has asplendd navy, mostly OF
steam vesses that another great necessity of their
of their people and Of their Govern
meHts-s necessity only second 70 cotton-is threat
ened by the Washington government.
What will they say to this! Can any man doubt!
VIII that nation of shOpkeepers that grea
Power which goes to war always for profit and the
other great Power which goes to war for an idea,"
snffr the now weak. impotent United States shOrn
of their wealth and capacity resist foreign aggre
Ion. to tritle with their most material interests?
seriously, what particular reason exists why the
great powers of Europe should be very polite and
eomplaisant Just now towards Mr.. Lincoln's gov
ern nent! Much obliged as they may be to him for
having split his country in two, and reducing it
from the rank of first to a fifth class power
thereby relieving them from all approximations of
Democratic Acknowledgement and Democratic exam
pie in family of nations they are not likely 10
openly thank him much for this. They are the
more likely TO proceed at TO take advantage Of
his weakness. The foreign policy OF his Republic
tan party has been particularly vicious and often
sive to them The Morrill, tariff, enacted by that
party, shuts European manufactures out Of the
North. The blockade threatens to keep them out OF
the South. But, worse than this il threatens TO
keep at home in the South and away from Europe,
two articles which Victoria and Napoleon mot 90
speak of Isabella and others) cannot and will not
do without. We may rely upon it, they will have
them. even at the cost of war with the United
States Government
This is certainly not among the improbabilites if
our Government persists in its reckless and tyran
MICA course. Our Union Defence Committee does
we'll to appoint subcommittee Composed Of ex'
celsnt gentlemen, but who, nevertheless, sre not
probably the best military engineers in the worl)
to examine in'o the harbor defences of New York.