The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-10-26
From the New England Farmer.l
Corn and COtton-which is King.
BY JUDGE FEEH Gil.

If any of our readers nave a suspicion
that there is any danger that England
may interfere with the controversy
between our Government and its rcfrac-
tory subjects at the South, we ask their
attention to a few facts which should
satisfy them that rebellion will receive
no aid from that quarter. The cry of
the South has been, g Cotton is King,
and we are his prophets" The argu
ment was short and conclusive. England
depends on her manufactures, and with
out cotton her mills must stop and her
operatives starve. She can get cotton
nowhere else =; therefore she will raise
the blockade, even at the cost of war
with the United States, and take our
cotton. The first and obvious answer
to this argument may be found in the
fact that were England to attempt to
force the blockade she would indeed get
war, but no cotton, for we must accept
war if she thus forces it upon us,
although We much prefer peace, aud
when war has commenced with England
on the sea, how is the cotton crop to go
| out!
In addition to an efficient naval force
now aA oat, we should at once cover the
ocean with our privateers to capture
whatever British ships we could find
1T requires large fleet of merchantmen
to transport the cotton crop, and suppos-
ing the cotton were all in bales and at
Southern ports ready to ship, and a war
going on with England, it would seem
that freight and insurance would be
rather high on cargocs outward bound.
England wants cotton next winter and
spring, if ever. After that she can sup
ply herself in India and elscwhcre.-
The cotton is now on the plantations,
most of it in the seed, for want of bag
gng to cover the bales. The cottonoc-
racy dare not carry It to their ports
ready for shipment in any quantity,
because if they do they know we shall
seize it, and so supply the demand
How is England to obtain the cotton,
even we're she willing to make the
attempt! No, England can have war.
but cotton she cannot get in season for
her most pressing need with al. the force
she can command.
Looking at the question, then, as a
mere question of expediency, England
will not attempt to obtain cotton i'll that
way. England looks to her own interest
wisely. She has no wish to bow down
to King Cotton, or to be dependent fol
prosperity of her manufactures upon the
| Of CHI hat
if the Confederates had now their port,
open and under their own control, they
would load their cotton with export
duties enough to pay all the expenses Of
the rebellion Cotton is too arbitrary
a master to relieve English necessity
without full pay. But the manufacture
ers Of England are not planning how t.
raise our blockade or how to get Ameri
can cotton. They are busily engaged
like good, Industrious, thrifty people
that they are, in schemes for doing with
: out our cotton. They are organizing
companies for raising cotton; they are
building roads in India for transporting
cotton and sooner than they can get q
crop from the Southern States by forcing
the blockade they will, through the art:
, of peace, supply their wants from Other
sources. ..is '..
, Then will John Bull disrespectful,
r twirl his fingers about his venerable nose
| at MIR. Jefferson Davis, with the sugges
ton that though cotton may be King o
r slaves, it is no longer King of Grea
: Britain. And where will then be Kin,
/ Cottonl And what will then be tn
market value of King Cotton's colore
$ bipeds in those days! In a single yea
t of this blockade, the South wi hav
Il upon its hands two crops Of cotton an