The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-08-08

From the Providence, Il. Island, Post, July 49,
Our market quotations, this morning,
show the price Of cotton In this city, and
indicate very plainly to what we are com
ing. We are torcalze, Enthusiastically, 10y
all the horrors Of cotton famine. not
only in this country, hut throughout Eu-
rope Prices are TO 60 up, not down, un-
III there comes general financial and
commercial smash up. Indeed we are TO
get no more cotton in the next three
years. Our mills have got to stop, our
manufacturer, if they are not blind, may
slready see ruin staring them in the face
In six months Rhode Island fate will be
/ sealed.
At last accounts there were only 2l3,-
go bales of cotton in Liverpool against
l,l23,00O bales Of corresponding dotelast
year. Were the mills 30 run on full time
every pound of cotton in England would
be used up in four weeks. India, OF
which we have heard so much in aboll-
ton speeches, supplies no part of the de-
liciency oocasioned by the loss of the
American article. Instead of sending
more than usual to market, there was
afoat, at last accounts, of India cotton,
only A, 600 bales, against 30, 0OOlast year,
and 100000 in 1860. There are millions
o f persons who have heretofore been en-
rloyed in the cotton manuiactoiics OF
England, four iifths of whom are TO be
wholly out OF employment in n short
time, And the same state of things, to
an extent fearful to contemplate, is to eX-
ist in New England.
"But we are to have cotton say the
aboltionists. This rebellion is to be
crushed, the Southern ports are to be
opened, and cotton is to pour in upon us,
most p!emtiGully." This is the talk of era
w fanatics and fools. The Southern ports
may be opened; but we shall get no cot
ton. The old crop will be destroyed whe-
Their its owners 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 UNI
burned today; andno more than enough
is being raised for Southern consumption.
The uniform testimony is that there are
no cotton fields to be seen on the Missis
sippi. "Pant corn, and not cotton" was
the order; and it has been generally obey
ed.
"But next year we shall get cottor
i enough" some abolitionists will say. W.
know better. We shall be lucky if W.
get bale per week through the year.
No attempt will be made to raise it unit
this war ends; and the war will not end, -
things now look. until oven the tounda
tons Of Southern industry, Southern bu
siness, and Southern social life, are ovel
turned. AbolitioGism has taken therelnS
, and it will not permit us moments res
until the whole South is thrown inro cor
fusion, and all hope of the raising of col
ton is destroyed. The legislation of thi
fanatical Congress has rendered restore
ton almost impossible, until nearly tn
entire white population of the South ha
been cXtermjnated, and the North ha
brought upon itself bankruptcy and ruin
The South will not yield to the policy o
the abolitiorists, wnilc resistance is posi-
bic, 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 despondingly? We say only
the truth. We warned the people in lSjC
of Just this state of things We predicted
it again IN 1860 When the war brok,
odtwe bclieyedit mightbe brought to al
end, and the South be brought back t.
the Union, in year or two, if we follow
ed the conservative policy, and asserted
only the supremacy Of the Constitution
Instead of this, our whole cour. has beer
calculated to cXasperate the Southern
people, dishcorten Unionists everywhere
and divide the North into factions. we
are farther from final victory than VIC
were one year ago. All that our armies
have done has been undoue by a reckless
Congress and a yielding President. We
have spent six hundred millions of dol
lars, and sacrificed fifty thousand lives
and rot for it all-what? We have saved
Maryland and Kentucky and Missouri
by show of ,bayoncts, and lost them by
a show Of radicalism. The Union cause
will hereafter find little heartily sympa
thy south of Mason & Dixon's line
Aud now, we say again, the North is tc
bear her full share of suffering. Her cot
ton mills must stop. Her laboring moi
are to become paupers The Government
is going to take caro- Of the niggeEo; 20
white people, without bread or employ
mcnt, must take care OF themselves.
Carrying Away the Stolen Negroes,
The Federal troops on Edisto Island
S. c., having been sent to reinforce Nc
Clellan, the negro refugees" there were
sent to st. Helena Island. a correepon
dent of the New York WORTH says:
Thoywcro removed en- massc. Nearly
ono thousand camo here at one timo on
one of our smaller steamboats, The scene
was hoart rcuding, They were literally
slowed on tho decks and between decks.
1t was shadow Of tho middle passage. --
! And veL how far shnrL OF tho rnnliiv.-