New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-13

and to give cotton or Withhold cotton al
pleasure; while joined to this power would be
an arrogance of temper aud an unIeasoning
pride, aud natural disputatiousness. from the
effects of which England has heretofore been
saved only by tho union Of the Cotton States
with the more sensible and less explosive
States of the North.
We know the cotton planters better than
England knows them. We know how eI'
ceedngly difficult it has been to entertain
commercial relations with men at once In
provdent and grasping-with producers VINO
demand long advances on all they cell. and at
the same time long credits upon all they BUY.
England, though she should have a monopoly
of Southern cotton, would meet with the same
difficulties. She would be forced by the pow
erty and thriftessness of the South to furnish
means of planting and Of getting forward the
crop, of which even then she would not Do
sure. since there would be no certainty that
the planters would keep any better ialth Win
her than they have kept with us. They would
consider her as they have considered us-a
pensioner upon their bounty-and they would
boast of the ability which they possessed to
,top all the looms in Lancashire, as they have
boosted of their ability to stop all tho
looms in Lowell.
What could England do with such peo-
pie, vain, reckless, aud fancying, not with
out some reason, that she was deliv-
cred into their hands---she whom they have
always hated with an absolute hate, and
defed with virulcnce exceeding the yiruleDce
OF sayagesl She could, indeed, declare war
against the treacherous creatures whose alliance
had been purchased at such cost OF honor and
self-respect but war would but double her
dilemma, by cutting of tho entire supply OF
cotton, whereas in times of peace however Ill
the feeling between the two Governments she
might obtain still from States the least I'M
friendly, modicum of the commodity. She
might invade the Confederacy; she might bonn
bard Charleston and hold the Gulf; but the
passage of her armies over the blighted fields
would not cover them with the coveted crop;
and she could not, with all her resources, make
men plant cotton who did not please to
plant cotton. Again, if she suffered herself
TO be BETRAYED into that ignobe policy which
now she 10 threatening to adopt, she would
find that she had only been moving in cir
Gle; though her last condition would be worse
than her first since in this difficulty she would
be without the sympathy or assistance or iniln'
/ -, bar hall of
tellgcnt, and dspassionate North. She would
find Shareholders as ready, in the madness OF dis
appointment, Jealousy, or ailront to fly to arms
against her rs they have been against the North;
she would find them a. difficult 10 treat with, to
fsht with, or to conquer; and though she might
at last succeed in reducing them to subsection,
she would then be forced herself to deal with
this yeIed question Of Slavery and compelled
after all 10 choose between Cotton on the one
hand and the guilt of Human Bondage on the
other; while, at the same time her arms must
be employed in keeping in subsection the half
civilized planters who have been despolled by
her success at once Of their authority and their
property-the men who have been trained to
believe IN HANc democracy, anu WIN nate
Kings much worse than they hate the devil
But it will be said, perhaps, that the sub
jugation Of the Rebels by the loyal United
States would present the same economical diff
culties. TO this objection it may be answered
/ that the triumph Of our arms will be the
triumph of the Law and the Constitution, and
will therefore have a moral value more con-
sistent with permanent peace and resumption
of the ayocatons of industry. Ii may or may
not be in our power altogether to abolish
Slavery in the seeded States; but as they
have Justly forfeited all. political rights, it is
clear that by the commonest principles of con-
iiscation, the Government will acquire new
authority over great portion of the soil now
40 ill-cultiyated, and will be able to invite TO
its improvement the skilled ngrculturists OF
the North and West-the men of industry,
Of energy, and of capital. Such men will soon
rid of what shall remain OF Slavery the re-
/ deemed and regenerated soil; and will be pre-
pared to furnish to England, or to any other
purchaser with money to pay for it, many mid
ions Of pounds more Of cotton than have here
tolore been gathered-giying To its production
an impetus and prolific life which, while
Slavery remains, it is imbecility to hope for.
OF this, England will reap her portion of the
great benefit to the general human comfort
aud happiness, if, in her eagerness to grasp all
enc does not lose all for years TO come. 1t
seems TO us, if We were an Englishman and a
cotton-spnner, we should not disregard con.
sderations like these. We believe, indeed,
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