The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-08-12
COTTON IS KING.


TIE success Of tie Norh III the Var decldred
impossible.
The following editorial from the providence
(R L. Post shows very plainly to what straits
the North is being brought by this war. 1t is a
startling exposition OF the state 81 affairs and feel
ing in the North
Our market quotations this morning show the
price of cotton in this city, and indicate very
plainly to what We coming. We to realize
Enthusiastically all the horrors of a cotton famine,
not only in this country but throughout Europe.
Prices are to go up, not down, until there comes
general financial and commercial smash up. H.
deed, We arc to get no more in the next three
years. Our mills have got to stop; our manufac-
turers, if they are not blind, may already
see ruin staring them in the face. In six months
Rhode Islands fate will be sealed.
At last accounts there were only 2l3, 270 bales
Of cotton in Liverpool, against l23 GOO bales at
a corresponding date last year. Were the mills
to run on full time, every pound Of cotton in
England would be used in four weeks. India, of
which we have heard 50 much in abolition
speeches. supplies 10 part of the deficiency oc-
casioned by the loss Of the American article. In
stead Of sending more than usual to market,
there was ahoat at last accounts, of India cotton,
only -, 0C0 bales, against 100000 last year. and
2SO,00O in 1860. There are millions of persons
who have heretofore been employed in the cotton
manufacturers of England four-flths of whom
arc to be wholly out Of employment in a short
time. And the same state Of things, to an ex-
tent fearful to contemplate, is to exist in New
England.
= But we are to have cotton" say the aboi-
tionists. This rebellion is to be crushed, the
Southern ports are to be opened, and cotton is TO
pour in upon us most plentifully." This is the
talk of crazy fanatics and fools. The Southern
ports may be opened, but we shall get no cotton.
The old crop will be destroyed whether the own
ers like it or not They dare not resist measure
so essential to their Independence The torch
will be applied to nearly every bale that remains
unburucd today, and not more than enough is
being raised for Southern consumption. The
uniform testimony is that there are no cotton
fields 10 be seen on the Mississippi. "pant corn
and not cotton" was the order and it has been
strictly obeycd.
but next year we will get cotton enough"
some aholitionist will say. We know better We
shall be lucky if VIC get bale per week through
the year. No attempt will be made to raise it
until this war is over; and the will not end as
things now look, until even the foundations Of
Southern industry, Southern business and South
ern social life are overturned. Abulitionisn has
taken the rcns, and it will not permit US a mo-
ment's rest until the whole South is thrown into
confusion, and all hope of the raising Of cotton
destroyed. The legislation Of this fanatical Con
gress has rendered restoration almost impossible
until nearly the entire white population of the
South has been cxtermnatcd and the North has
brought upon itself bankruptcy and ruin The
South will not yield TO tie policy OF the abolition
lists while resistance is possible; and in spite of
all we can do it mag prove possible, until Federal
treasury notes sold for cn ceuts on the dollar.
DO we speak dcspondnely? We say only the
truth. We warned the people i'll 1856 Of just
this state of things. We predicted it again in
1860. When the war broke out VIC believed it
might be brought to end, and the South be
brought back to the Union, in year or two if we
followed the conservative policy and asserted only
the supremacy of the Consultation. Instead of
this, our whole course has been calculated to
eXa>pcrate the Southern people, dishearten Union !
lists everywhere, and divide the North into fac !
tons. We are farther from a final victory than |
VIC were one year ago. All that our armies have |
done have been undone by reckless Congress !
and yielding President. We have spent six /
hundred millions Of dollars aud sacrificed fifty
thousand lives, and got for it a-wha? We .
have saved Maryland and Kentucky and Missouri !
by show Of bayonets, and lost them by show !
OF radicalism. The Union cause will hereafter
find little hearty sympathy South of Mason and .
Dixon's line.
And now, we say again, the North is to bear
her full share of suffering. Her cotton mills
must stop. Her laboring men are TO become
Paupers. The Government is going to take care
Of the niggers; white people, without bread or
employment, must take care Of themselves.