St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-03-21
King Cotton in England.

. on lHc pUttnS NpCctn, StNCEdI SpCoh-
ers argued, while abiding in u kind
manner to this country, on the nCces-
sity and feasibility Of obtaining cot
ton from other places than our South
cru States The Earl Of Seton, who
moved the Address, Gan adulatory
paraphrase Of the royal speech, sent
to the Queen said:
"With regard to America, they
must all regret to see SO Furnishing,
so large, and 50 prosperous commu-
nity-a community bound so closely
by every tie to Observation-Disclosures on
the verge of n civil war. They must
also feel some alarm at the effect of
these events upon our import of cot
ton but let them remember that cot
ton is to be had from other countries
besides America, and he was glad to
say that the subject was exciting the
deepest interest, not onl V in Mamches-
ter, but he trusted also in Liver
pool. lie hoped that increased facili-
ties Of communication would soon
bring an ample supply Of Indian cot
ton into the market and the hardy
and adventurous pioneers on the coast
of Africa were striving 10 open up
that country to commercial enterprise"
The Earl Of Derby, leader Of the
Opposition, remarked
am quite surc that, apart even
from the relations of the two countries
there is no one in this country who has
not viewed, with the deepest anxiety
and the deepest regret, the disruption
of community which, without claim
! ing perfection for its Constitution,
which certainly had various disadvan.
| tagcs, has yet procured for its people
an amount of prosperity almost unpar-
allclcd in the world, and an amount of
personal liberty and personal freedom
which is only infcrior-as | think it is
nfcrior-to that which is enjoyed by
the people of this kingdom. But it is
impossible to overlook, in considering
the possible disruption of those States,
the effect that that disruption will
have on those States from which we
draw the raw material used in one Of
the great manufactures of this coun-
try. Unfortunately, it does 50 hap
pcn-I trust it will not be so long
that We have for many years been too
exclusively dependent on that country
for the production Of the raw matcri-
! al in the manufacture of cotton, and
! it will not be without its advantage if
| this disruption should lead to the most
anxious consideration on the part of
those most deeply intcrcsted--for | do
not think it is question in which her
Majcsty's Government Ought to or can
intcrlcrc-as to how far they can OBJ
viatc the danger Of depending almost
cntircl Y for the supply Of cotton from
the United States, and to what extent
they can obtain a supply from other
countries. That a supply may be had,
and in great abundance, provided
proper means be taken, am quite sat-
isficd"
Earl Granville, one of the Ministry,
abiding to the unfortunate divisions
in this country, declared that the gen
eral feeling, both publicly and private
ly evinccd, showed that there was one
feeling Of sympathy and concern
throughout the land at such mistor
tune having arisen. Foreigner after
foreigner had said to him, You ought
to be very glad of this disunion-this
weakening of your great rival across
the Atlantic )" but 10 Englishman had
ever made the same remark to him !;
and he believed that a feeling far
deeper than a mere commercial Or
manufacturing feeling did pcrvadc all
classes of Englishmcn on the subject,
and that there existed the sort of SYM
patty he had described between his
country and the United States, which,
as the noble earl had so well express
ed, was one of the greatest nations of
the world, and almost as free as them
selves. In that opinion he entirely
concurred. With respect to cotton, he
said that
He entirely concurrcd in the con-
illusions of the noble earl as to the de-
STABILITY of our obtaining cotton from
all parts Of the world. lie thought
the advice of the noble earl was ex-
ccllent From political as well as 9th
or reasons, it was not wise that a
great staple Of trade in this country
should depend for its supply merely
on one particular part of the globe.
Cotton was a crop more dependent on
the weather than any other, and there
was no doubt that some Of our own
colonies, as well as many other coun-
tries were capable of furnishing us
with an adequate supply Of that arti-
Gle. The Government would give
their support, as much as possible, to
an extension of the cultivation of cot
ton, and they had already sent out cir
culars to British cOnsuls abroad to
stimulate the introduction as far as
they legitimately could but, after all
it rested with the merchants and man
ufacturers particularly interested to
take active and energetic steps in the
same direction"
1t is evident that England is i'm
pressed with the idea that, from some
cause or other, the cultivation of cot
ton in the United States is likely to be
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interrupted or diminished, and that it
is absolutely necessary, therefore, to
use all available precautions to pre-
vent the evils which would accrue
from a short supply of what has be-
come national manufacture. Scar
city is identical with dearncss of cot
ton, and both involve greatly reduced
prDduction of the manufactured article