The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-10-17
The great Cotton Crisis com menced i'm
EmgIand--WiIl IL end in Revolution


The reports from Lancashire apprise us that
the fret mutterings of the long expected storm
already heard. Mills are working short tAse man.
ufacturers are reducing wages, and operatives are
assembling in trouble and alarm 10 discuss the
pros pect before them. While once more discus.
sing this momentous question cannot omit to
observe that since our last notice of the subject
the continuance of American supply has become
less probable than ever. Every successive mail
from America makes 1t more dltlcult to believe
that either section of the Union remain as be-
fore The North will make acquaintance with
those burdens of taxation and esta olishment which
have so long tried the Governments of the Old
World. and the South, even IT ii retains with its
independence all its territorial privileges, will find
that its m nopoly of the European market has
been rudely disturbed.
With all these coming ences looming darkla
around us, it is at least satisfaction to obsery e,
both hat the condition of the cotton manufacture
is fay orHbe to our present efforts, md that the
operatives iii Lancashire are looking III INC matte
like scu,ihle men. Tie E;at resource Ia eJrUlG,
like je present Is evidently Co limit the rate OF
.lHie re-thsut lwch dis. iy-utal- fa ,le trade Ou
with q positive gain. ID Is sud tnat prod"utioa
las rgaogtIy been carried trn 'ar. aad Ina, the
stocks ot Tuauu tactu-a' gulas aIo everywhere ia
excess of The demand. In tila saan II can ccT
lainiy 10 ne harm 10 sIackcn our pace onG allow
our pro ducts to recover her vaiue. snort time,
in tact would be rather Desirable oven If our sup
plies of material we'u IN NJ jeopardy III all.
In the mean time the operatives have recognized
the eXisenCy ii tNe crisis by unan mos resolu-
lions hey demur, indeed, to the alleged necea
slty for the reuUCucu Of wages hut at a large
meeting of the delC .ates -. chichester it was
freely admitted that Ire present scarcity of cotton
ali lieu : WeA AroUuuou reason tor running the
mills on short Iime( and thus diminishing the rate
OF consumption. Such view Of the speaks
well tor the good sense ana sdgacIty OF the men.
We must face the impending trial as well as we
can. The long eXpec eu dearth has now Cvertaken
us Ii is Il Sc. iuus matter but not So bad as We
tea ed We have two resources-Oue Ill the stop
page of CONSUMPTION, the other III the discovery
of new supplies. Both, we trust will stand us Ia
good stead while we feel our way to such posi-
ton as shall exempt us from any future return of
the liability
The unnatural check which has been given our
cotton supply, in consequence OF political events
which have rendered the b0uutltul harvest nuca-
tory has placed us in imminent danger of a great
national calamity. This may be averted by the
termination of the American civil war, and the
renewal OF commercial relations with
the Continent but the obstacle to this arrange
ment Is the determination of the Northern states
to impose their rule on an unwilling population
RegardiDU recent events in the earnest spirit, II
is impossible TO avoid the conclusion that this de-
termination will prove dsas trous andst cues
ton whether the Federal Government is not pur-
suing a mistaken course IN cOntendmg against
that new political organization, the necessity OF
which is shown by the extraordinary difficulty OF
its accomplishment.