New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-10
NUMBER 262.
England sIust Break fhs BIocksde.
From Reynolds, London W.ekl

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One important fact which ought never to be lost
sight OF IN this controversy is, that the Southern
people and statesmen are extremely anxious to be
on friendly political and commercial relations with
this country, They want our manufactured goods
in exchange for their cotton and tobacco The
produce Of the Lancashire looms, of the Scottish
and English foundries Of the engine manufacturers
Of the Tyne and Clyde OF the street shops Of Shet
field, Of the metal works Of Birmingham, now ex-
cluded from the Southern and Northern States by
the Morrill, and other protective tariffs, will be
gerly welcomed by the Southern States, when once
neutrality-suspicious. is established, rather as soon
as the blockade il raised, for the independence Of
the Confederation is now an accomplished fact
which not alr the might Of moon.stricken Yankee
dom can undo When, in addition to this, 1T Is borne
r, a mind that the stpreho1ses of New Orleans, Mo-
pile, savannah and other ports, are cram full,
piled fromcellar to ceiling with that raw cotton for
the want of which our looms standing STILL our
artizans starving, and our manufacturers becoming
insolyent it is impossible nor to perceive that an
overwhelming case in favor of the immediate rais-
ing Of the blockade by the British feet has been
made. sJ4E& S@ NJ eE.s .ssgS
@s The idea of procuring from other places enough
of cotton to save us ON the impending disaster s
simply fatuous. Taking the two elements Of qHan-
tity and quality into account, it is safe to assert
that not from any or all parts Of the world can
find an equivalent for the American cotton of
which we are now deprived. As for, the East
slndies-the, region from which the most sanguine
expectations are now cherished d-nothing butSthe
grossest ignorance could have given birth to the
delusion. That it is a delusion to believe that
now. or for years yet, a sufficient supply of cotton
can be procured from that country to render Us
Independent Of American, everybody who has
looked into the matter mus. admit To grow
enough cotton in India, and to provide thelways
and means by which it can be transported to Eng
land at such terms as will induce manufacturers to
purchase it, cannot, on the most modern computa-S
ton, be accomplished in less than ten years. -
Bnt even if enough of East India cotton could be-
instantly and ,cheaply procured, it. would not
enable the Lancashire mills to keep working. The
reason is obvious. East India cotton Is both
coarser and shorter in fibse than the American
Now, in nineteen ont Of every twenty mills in this
country, the machinery was constructed for the
manufacture of the longer and fner fbred product
of the American cotton. To adapt this machinery
to the East India cotton would dsnecessitates com
.plete revolution and reconstruction of our. ma
chinery. a i I
This indispensable alteration could not be effect
ed in less time than twelve months or tiess cost.
than fifty millions sterling But inthe meantime,
what is to become of our unemployed and ,famish
ing citizens? Why, the very evil which we dread
and which we are doing all in our power to pre-
vent, would have taken plaee 50 that before the
cotton OF India could be got or the machinery pre-
pared for its manufacture, the probabilities are,
that We should have no minis to reft, no nOoperatiyes
to employ, no commerce to secure andlno country
to save. SEs u $5 @4&. a EG talssi 5gIs5
Once more. then, we call upon our country
aye, and upon our country ywomen--to take instant
and energetic action in this matter But to The
working classes, in an especial and emphatic man
ner, we address our appeal Why should they see
their wives in rags, their children famishng, their
cupboards empty, their CRATES reless, their homes
denuded of every article of furniture themselves
pressed into pauperism or coerced into crime
because the mad and mean Government of the
Northern States has committed itself to one of the
most foolish and wicked wars ever waged by one
power against another? We're they to be guilty Of
such completely in their own extinction, the verdict
OF the rest Of the world wonld be, that their cow
ardice was only equaled by their crimnality, SO
that set of more unmitigated imbeciles never
walked,or crawled upon the face Of the earth. It
lis, therefore, the most sacred and bounden duty
but Of the former in preeminent degree-to take
mp this question, and make use of all the constitu-
tonal mockery at their disposal in order to induce
the British Government to interpose its power for
the preservation of our commerce from ruin and
our citizeus from starvation. ' Z