Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-08-01
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, Sur market quotations, thu DiurJilng, shoy
the prices Of cotton in this city, and indicate
very plainly to what We are coming
We are to reuIize, Enthusiastically, I'LL the
horrors Of cotton famine, not only in
this country, but throughout Europe. Prices
are TO 20 up, not down. until there CORES Z
| general financial and commercial smash I'm
| Indeed, we are 10 get no more cotton in the
| next three years. Our mills have got 10 stop;
our manufacturers, if they are not blind, NAV
! already see ruin staring them in the face In
six months Rhode Islands fate will be sealed
AT last accounts there were only 2l3,210
bale., OF cotton in Liverpool: against ,l93 900
bales al corresponding date last year. Were
tn. mill, 10 run vn fall time, every pound Of
cotton in England would be Used up in four
weeks! India, OF which We have heard 50
much in abolition speeches, supplies 10 part oil
| rho deficiency accustomed by the loss vi tic
! American article. Instead Of sending mole
| ,han usual to market, there was at!oat. at last
| 4, counts, of India cotton, only $1,000 bales
against 1000 list year, ana 2Su,UOU in l6Gr
| There are millions Of persons who haze hcrc-
| toiorc been employed III the cotton lnalniiic-
| tories of England, four iiiths OF whom Ale Ia
| l.. wholly out vi employment III short tnnc
And the same state Of things, 10 an extent
fearful to contemplate, Is To exist III New En-.
| land.
But We are 10 have cotton say the ado.
ltionistS. "ihis rebellion is ~ bc crushed
the Southern ports arc to be oPcne'; and COT
ton is TO pour i'll upon lis, most pientliuI!y.''
This is the talk of crazy fanatics and fools
The Southern ports may be opened; but "
shall get no cotton. Tho old crop will lie de.
| strovcd whether its owners like 1t or not
| They dare NOT resist measure SO essential 10
| their independence. The torch will be applet
10 nearly every bale that remains unhnrnr,
to-day and not more than enough Is hcln;
raised for Southern consumption. The ui
form testimony is that there are hG cotton
ieds to he seen OH The Mississippi. Plant
corn, and not cotton" was the order ani il
has been generally obeyed.
but next year We shall get Cotton enough.
snmr aho!tionist will say. We know beltcr.
We shall br lucky if We get Il bale per wcri
through the year. No attempt will be mad.
! Lu rais. ii until this war is over; and the war
~ i'll not end, US things now look, until eTrii
| the foundations of Southern Industry. South
rrn business, AMI Southern social life, are
overturned. -ihoiitionlam has taken the
rclns; and il will not permit lis a molIlrrt
rest unli the whole South Is thrown mi"
,,nn,,,.;,,,, and III hone NJ thr raising # 80,
I'm * d.srrov.d Thc LEGISLATION OF this H..
natic;J congress has rendered restoration al
,nost imnosSble until nearly IT.. entire white
uonulution of the South i,,, been r,t,r,uiua-
| roll aud ,hc North has hr,u.h, u,,,,, ,s.lI
iunkruptcv and ruin. The Suutl. wiiI mo-,
WELD to the Dolicy of the :,loIilion,sts. whiIc
resistance is possible; and in ,,i,c Of all we
ran do it may prove possible. until Federal
treasury notes are sold Tor ten cents OH tho
dollar.
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