The national Republican., 1862-08-13
ENGLAND DOES NOT WANT AMERI-
CAN COTTON.

The Richmond Examiner, Of August 9Th,
nays:
"lt Is the interest of Great Britain that this
With debt and taxation, and thoroughly ex.
hausied OF men, capital and materials for con.
Quoting successful rivalry In manufactures
and oommerce; and until, also, the South shall
bS everywhere overrun, her slaves taken OF,
her labor system completely overturned, and
all the circumstances which gave the South .
monopoly OF the cotton culture shall be de-
stroyed The talk about her starving opera
tives is the silly cant Of women and clereymen.
England could better afford, and her Govern.
nent would prefer, to see i've millions Of her
operatives starved to death, rather than - see
the OWL dissensions Of this country healed and
prosperity on which they were moving two
years ago. She has had the cunning, BY heavy
hribes to controlling members of the Rspubh.
oan party Of the North, to inaugurate the
tasm which she is now preaching on the
horrors of war, she 10 the real instgator OF the
aggressive measures OF the North against the
south. She has had the address TO make the
North cher rival In manufactures and COM
meFce) do her own work upon the South, her
-uocossful competitor In the cotton culture.
Her two rivals in matters touching her vital
interests are engaged in deadly collision, and
she would, this day, choose rather that all
her starving operatives should perish than
that the North and South should be at peace
until their work of mutual destruction ID com
pIetsd.'
The statesmen Of Englsnd desire the disrup
sion of the American Union, because II was, Ii
heir apprehension, becoming too formidable
for the preservation of the balance Of power. ,
That they desire to witness any such ruin o.
the North. as is described by the Examiner, /,
not probable. The North would not be al
object OF apprehension to them, If the indie.
p-ndence OF the Southern Coniedsrscy could
be- maintained. With two large nationslities
in North America, to be played of against
each other by European diplomacy, Englsnd
would cease TO fear the North, and as il seems to
IL, ~ too wise to desire anything else than the
prosperity Of the North. British commerce
which EMBRACES the globe, must always be
large with the free States Of America. and
British ststsomcn will not act upon their usual
ins;!ncts and maxiras, II they do not desire tina,
tie market tor their manufactures in these
STATE. should be large and good one. They
have reasons satisfactory to themselves, io
,s'sh!ng 10 See the political weight Of the Nortl
reduced and crippled, but we imagine that the,
will regard that object as sufficiently effscte,
by the creation on their southern border Of
new. powerful and hostile nation.
What the Richmond Erdminer says Of Bri,
lSh wishes in respect 10 the cotton culture,
well founded. We have ourselves steadil
insisted upon that view Of that subject s,nc
;hLa war began. England does not desire
ruin the South, which (like the North) 10
good customer for her, but she does wish :
zee tine cotton production so transferred to In
d'a ar TO obtain her supply OF that importau
raw material from one Of her own depender
"iee' She has been persisteutly struggling fo
twenty years to effect that object, and It
quite idle to suppose that she is going to Civ
il up at the very moment Of apparently poss
BILE frnitior, because the proposed transition |
the course of trade, is attended with neoessar
temporary mischiefs.
A war upon us by Great Britain to obtai
American cotton, involves every species Of at
surdity 1t is, ut least. doubtful II abe coul
get American cotton by that means. For Il
cum which war would cost her, sbe coul
support in idleness, for an indefinite period, q
her cotton manufacturing operatives. And
umily. 1t is not American cotton which al
wants, but Indian cotton, aud she knows th
she can soon get the cotton In sufficient qua
.!ties If American competition can be put o.
" the way.