Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-06
Cation !, king.

Suffering in the North for Want Of COHon-The
Success Of the North in his HaT Declared
Impossible.
The following editorial, from the Providence
(R.I9 Post, shows very plainly to what straits
the North is being brought by this war. It iss
startling exposition of the state of affairs and
feeling in the North:
From the Providence Post, Jolly Isl
Our market quotations this morning show the
prices of cotton in this city, and indicate very
plainly TO what we are coming. We are to re-
alize Enthusiastically all the horrors of a cotton
famine, not only in this country, but throughout
Europe. Prices are to 90 up, not down, until
there comes a general financial and commercial
smash up. Indeed, we are to get no more cot
ton in the next three years. Our mills have got
to stop our manufacturers, if they are not
blind, may already see ruin staring them in the
face. In six months Rhode Islands fate viii
be sealed.
At last accounts there Were only 2I3 270 bales
of cotton in Liverpool, against l,l23,000 bales
at a corresponding date last year. Were the
mills to run on full time, every pound Of cotton
ia England would be used in four weeks In
dia, OF which we have heard so much in aboli-
ton speeches, supplies no part of the deficiency
occasioncd by the loss of the American article.
Instead of sending more than usual to market,
there was ahoat, at last accounts, Of India cot
ton, only $4,000 bales, against 240, 900 last year,
and 230, 900 in 1860. There are millions Of per-
sons who have heretofore been employed in the
cotton manufactures of England, fOurflhs Of
whom are to be wholly out of employment in a
short time! And the same state OF things, to an
extent fearful to contemplate, is to exist in New
England.
bat we are to have cotton say the aboli-
tionists. This rebellion is to be crushed, the
Southern ports are to be opened, and cotton is to
pour in upon US most p~lentitully." This is The
talk of crazy fanatics and fools. The Southern
ports may be opened; but we shall get no cot
ton. The old crop will be destroyed whether
the owners like it or not. They dare not resist
a measure so essential to their Independence.
The torch will be applied to nearly every bale
that remains unburned to-day; and not more
than enough is being raised for Southern con-
! sumption. The uniform testimony is that there
are no cotton fields to be seen on the Mississip-
ri. ''Plant corn and not cotton was the order,
and it has been strictly obeyed.
sBut next year we viii get cotton enough"
some abolitiOnists viii say. We know better.
We shall be lucky if we get a bale per week
through the year. No attempt will be made 10
| raise il until this war is over; and the war viii
not end, as things now look, until even the
foundations of Southern industry, Southern BUSH
| ness and Southern social life are overturned.
Abolitionism has taken the Teins, and it viii not
permit US a moments rest until the whole South
is thrown into confusion, and all hope of the
| raising Of Gotten is destroyed. The legislation
of this ~fanatical Congress has rendered restora-
ton almost impossible until nearly the white
population of the South has bsen -exterminated
and the North has brought upon itself bank
ruptcy and ruin. The South viii not yiedt to
the policy Of the abolitiosists while resistance IS
| possible and in spite of all we can do It may
prove possible, until Federal treasury notes are
sold for ten cents on the dollar.
Do we speak despondinglYl We say only
the truth. We warned the people in 1856 Of
lust this state of things. We predicted it again
in 1860. When the war broke out we believed
il might be brought to an end, and the South be
brought back to the Union, in a year or two, If
| we followed the conservative policy and asserted
only the supremacy of the Constitution In
stead of this, our whole course has been calcu-
lated to exasperate the Southern people, dis
hearten Unionists everywhere, and divide the
North into factions. We are farther from a final
victory than we were one year ago. All that our
armies have done has been uudOne by a reckless
Congress and q yielding President. We have
spent six hundred millions Of dollars and sacri-
feed fifty thousand lives, and got for it all
what We have saved Maryland and Kentucky
and Missouri by a show Of bayonets, and lost
them by a show of rsdicalism. The Union
cause will hereafter find little hearty sympathy
south Of Mason and Dixon's liue.
And now, we say again, the North is to bear
her full share of suffering. Her cotton mills
must stop. Her lsboring men are to become
psupers. The government is going to take care
Of the niggers white people, without bread or
employment, must take care Of themselves.