Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-06-23
Fnglnnd and lhe Co,tpn Policr.

The editor of the Savannah Republican ha,
presented in a series of forcible and lucid edi
toiials what would seem to be the long maturet
policy of England in reference 20 American
slavery and slave-grown cotton. He sketchrs
the course Of that government since this great
staple reached a point of controlling importance
to the Of the Grid, and shows that
the 81, ady aim has been to break down the cot
ton interest of the SOuth-to break down slavery,
and thus, by annihilating t only other inpor-
tant source of supply, secure TO British interests,
by means of the East India product, q mon
npoly throughout the world Of the growth, The
trade, ard the manufacture If cotton. The
writer forcibly asks, if, in looking to England
! for friendly intervention, the South has not
been blindly deluding herself with false hopes
if England is not, in fact, intrizsjcaHy, the most
bitter, determined, and dangerous foe to or
interests aud institutions. The dependence On
the Southern States for cotton has been calling
to the pride and alarming tie p adent forecast
of England, and she has a thousand motives for
desiring to enancipate herself from it. and by
the same blow relieve herself from danger of
rivalry in the cotton manufacture. The RepHJ-
iican proceeds
alt is the early aud extended development of
coal and iron, and the manufactures incident
thereto that has made that nation what she is
tho factory. the stoIeholsp, the banki ig-house If
the entire globe that has made ev, ~ nation and
every people contributors to her ? -csperity that
has built up and sustained a navy through which
she has cammaI d d every se.i amiliG ry power
whose reYeille each moment giegts the sun in
lis diurnal round, and a dominion on which its
beams never 5 (. To these iron and coal lutte
rests which ave made Englanl so great, so
rich, and so powerful, the necessities of tie world
have added that Of manufacture cotton. Tne
importance Of this manufacture she seems, as
before sad, 10 have long foTseen aud fully faith
omed. With q vision shaTpened by h-r inord;-
nate s~,lfshness, she saw that he cleapuess with
which cotton could be grows would, in time, in
trOduce it among all tTib,s aud people. She
looked upon it, Ihen, not as supplying a small
part of civiliza i'm only, but ,very naiion-not
as a matter OF two or three hundred millions an-
nually, but two or three billions. she has, /
not a mon, poly OF Taw materials il Oiher manu-
features, az least an Independence Of supply
whereas in this great matter she had neither, but
was utterly dependent on the OK genciss OF
American cultivation.
The c nnplete dependeI CT in a matte. Of such
Vital lHpOrtaEc~-5O .Nll OF wealth, power aud
on lie one hand, and # ruin, totai
and absolute, on the othcT-was rs ciaf Q to
her naughty pride d it was alarming to her sci
hshness. s. ioTg as it WAS coniinurd every
step in cotton msnufsciu e was att, nj
ed with haZ .Fd; and if it W 5 * ended quail,
with the future T,qairtmenis Ot The would. 4
0 S Ut supply from VA, frcm f.ilule Of crops,
rJm whiIn Of the gIOS,T, OF any other OF u
score Of c'ntingelee les. vould hurI every inter
sst c ,nnecied with that manutsciu e to c M
Dle.e and irre;Tievable lUin: htreas, il Eps-
ard, on the intIay, cJuld raise an indepen-
lent supply from her colonies, she would be Ie-
l. we'd Of these contingencies, and If she could t
10 man, ge rs TO break dOvn this cult. walton IL
,ther e~,uutips, she could add the monopoly Of 4
to the monopoly Of manu.acture, and
nsurs to kers1f, and for all time, a p ,wer vast
y greater than ven herself had ,vsr before A
ViDl led-a power comm N ling the c min Tcial O
ympathies OF the whole wofld-aud tie to her O
eli. by the strong bonds Of interest, every ia. d
ion, people aud tribe on the "footslOol." q