Litchfield enquirer., 1862-01-30

makes right" that's the maxim of John. Dul
 ing the past forty years he has had twenty ex
 cuses for taking hold of Jonathan by the hair but Jonathan is not 8 man who would allow
 very readily. Jonathan has lost his old sense 0
 respect, and would rather give his elder brothe
 blow with the fist than exchange dipiomati
 of John that he must now deliberate seriousl
 before quarreling with the hitherto despised Jon athan. What affronts has not John receive' and swallowed on the frontiers of Canada, wher Jonathan openly excited the Canadians to re yolt aud gave them arms and at Greytown when Hollins burned in English property in tim, of profound peace and in Nicaragua, whel Walker tried to annex Central America to tn,
 United States! Everywhere John finds Jona than in his road, but passes by without growi
 John is growing old and fat his beard is bc
 coming gray his armor weighs heavily on him
 his old wounds are not healed up ;' his grcal
 sword is becoming too heavy for his weakened
 arm the least fatigue makes him pant ths
 slightest quarrel makes him reflect; in place ol
 biting, he now only barks instead Of ssizini
 Jonathan by the throat and strangling him, he grows and stamps in a corner. John allows himself to be insulted he grows weaker he consults his neighbors and engages lawyer An he's no longer the John we used to know
 Cursed old ege cursed cotton!
 | JOHNS LOVE OF COTTON.
 "It is not merely the fear of Jonathan that makes John so backward. Old as he is, Johu has high sense of honor, and would again roll up his sleeves and pitch in if necessary but alas other things are to be considered. John has become the slave of King Cotton who has made his fortune and is determined to be well ! T.l.- s.l~ t.,k L. kk~ tion of hard work. John has large family I which is constantly increasing. The workshops of .ianchester and Liverpool are worth millions l they provide shirts for half of the human race but he never took the precaution to plant cotton on his own territory; now, without cotton there are no shirts; without shirts no money with out money no beefsteak without beefsteak no John! It is this that lulls his intractable temp. CT. Cotton or death '~-s-.z ;.
 -&4@4 l "Thus, we see what has held back the arm of Jonathan for the past forty years and would without doubt have held it back for centuries, if he had had the shrewdness to take care of his cotton stores But Jonathan has become divi- ded against himself, as the Scriptures say, and discord has invaded his counsels the chiefs of 1 his people defed each other to combat; his left hand wished to sever it's connection with the right, and the formidable Jonathan, until now considered so terrible to all, has exposed himself to the risk of paying in single day all his old 1 debts to John.
 What an unlucky complication!
 JOHN s ANTI SLAVERY ZEAL.
 "But now, behold, you amiable people of France, the good faith of John, the Englishman. As long as Jonathan lived in peace flashing his slaves, selling his cotton, buying Johns calico, and doing brisk business with him, ithis same John, while protesting at meetings. bdnquets and Parliament his lively desire to live in harmony with his cousin nevertheless never failed to slip in among his sweet words some pious remarks upon the wickedncss of Jonathan, who kept in slavery and worked almost to death four millions of negroes while he, the immaculate John Bull, raised his hands towards heaven and prayed .ihe tice, this English publican with tie file Samari- tan, the Philistine, who lived on the American side of the Atlantic.
 "To-day, Jonathan, urged on by the Bible Societies of Connecticut and Massachusetts, by the stings of conscience, and yet more by prov idential necessity is about to follow the exam pie of John, and give freedom to his negroes, sacrificing perhaps his cotton trees, which are the most valuable portion of his wealth, and risk ing his very life in accomplishing his duty to wards God and man. One would think that John would loudly applaud and clap his hands at all this.
 No such thing. John begins by folding his arms and saying in disdainful manner <" My brother Jonathan talks of emancipating his slaves, but he lies he only wants to keep up his tariff, which raises the price of calico. He don't act from motives of justice and right, but only out of regard to his shop. Now, my shop is worth as much as his. If the people of the South wish to abolish the tariff aud have my cot ton goods at a low price, why should they not do it? And if those of the North wish to pre- vent it and maintain the Union. why should not aid the gentlemen of the South, even if they are shareholders and fog night and morning the descendants of Hami Certainly, lam vesy sor- " for the uniucky whippess; but must have cotton, and my interest, @ every one knows, must take the psecedenes of everything elssy< Between us, by the way, Jonathan is sssy bsas ly brought up boy. and vould be vel pleassd | to give him sound lesson while hs has ethss 1 things to bother him- The opportunity is iksor- able Civil war jast now takes away from him all his strength. viii % and beidiy plAas v THE FUSS ABOUT THE TREsE
 That's the reason that Johs made such . fuss about the Trent affair." To speak sincerely. it is not pleasant thing to take an enemy from neutral vessel whose flag ought to be as invie- liable as the territory itself of the neutral ration; but John was the only one who had no right to complain, for he has always hitherto refused to respect the rights of neutrals, and was now only 1 subjected to law of his own making. PaseTe lgen, guaa ipse fecisti, Jonathan might say to him.
 "The true cause of Johns anger is not in this. He thinks the United States are twice as pow.
 erful as they ought to be, and wants to break them into two confederacies. of which one-that of the Soath-will have strength and vitality ouly through commerce with England. A na- ton of twelve millions of souls, whose territory would be bounded On the north by Ohio and the great prairies of the West as far as the Rocky
 Mountains. on the cast by the Atlantic, on the south by the sea of the Antilles and on the west
 by Mexico, would suit John Bull very we'll.
 "For it would offer vast market, open ex
 c!usively to his manufactures, like Portugal By means of the advances of funds he could
 make, John would be the creditor of all the
 planters-would buy their crops 10 resell al
 great profit to the Americans of the North, tc the French, the Belgians and the Germans would cover with his steamboats the Mississippi
 the Arkansas and their branches; would draiu the marshes, would build up foundries, construc-
 dykes. would urge on his pioneers to Texas. in wade Mexico by land, visit Central America would pierce the Isthmus to Nicaragua, conDeci one sea with the other and attack South Ameri
 Ca from the north. This new conquest would be more solid than the first for if the Nortf American colonies were able in the last centur, to throw of the yoke of England, it was, above all things because they were not her debtors F- T II