Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-29

and merchants should be influenced by "eapd-
i,y'
The cupidiiy Of English merchants. aided By
their vast resources. together With the sdvsnta
ges derived from those Triangular tepots OF
blockade runners and Of rebel supplies-the
ports Of halifax. Bermuds and Nassau, ports
which will always be in sympathy with the enc
mics Of this couniry-has induced them TO en-
gage in this trade"
Shocking. indeed And the good Secretary
cannot refrain. even in an Official report. from
improving the subject by moral lecture. de
SAYS:
:. The Illicit traffic with the rebels who
making war upon our government belongs 10
that code Of commercial morals which prompted
the smuggling Of opium into China, and the rule
Of those who engage in il j. 10 trade legally or
ilegslly"
And again:
Almost every vessel employed in violating
the blockade has been constructed in England
with great skill, regardless Of cost, and with sole
reference to engaging in this Illicit trade the pro
fits of which almost remuBerative as those
attending the slave trade and kindred traffic that
is all Cbrtendom deDouncss"
To bring in and sell TO mess beef or cloth.
OF shoes, is an enOrmiiy which Mr. Welles can
liken to nothing but the opium traffic, which
pOsOns China, or the slave trade, which Christen-
dom discountenances And then think of the
villainy Of building the ships for this trade with
great skill and regardless Of cost" II they had
been built by bunslers, and ofinierior power and
tunnage " elles would not have thought so hard
" of such behavior To be sure he seems to ad
nit almost in the ga me breath. that the English
are quite right TO trade with us so long as port
Is open, and says:
''If the trade be Illegal, IL Is the business of
Americans 10 prevent IL.
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prevented it. those English being an industrious
and euterprising people, finding port open
where cotton is known TO be lying ready pressed
in bales for shipment, will comet is weak hu-
man nature-and will sell their useful wares and
buy the said cotton. Indeed, we learn BY
late statistics in England, the supply OF cotton
from Confederate ports, though very far indeed
from its ancient amounts, has been Increasing
and does actually keep certain number of the
Lancashire mills going. and their hands out oil
the workhouse.
Now il also happens that at the very moment
when the Yankees dispatch their vast fleet and
army TO close up the port of Wilmington, and
cut of even the moderate supply of cotton from
England. the same fankees-as was pointed out
the other day-are opening the blockade fOi
their own peculiar and exclusive behoof, anC
| permitting not only cotton. but tobacco also &C
be shipped from Confederate ports 20 the north
There il nothing which according TO all the law,
of nations, completely violates a blockade ant
dspenses all foreign powers from recognizing il
as this very act OF using Il as a pretext fol
securing a monopoly 10 the bloekading powe
itself
Documents furnished few days ago to the
Confederate Congress contain correspondence,
between our commissioners OF exchange anC
/ Gen Lee on the one side, aud Grant and Stanton
/ on che other. whereby arrangements are con
cluded for one ship Ito begin with to be lader
at Mobile with one thousand bales OF cotton
worth half a million in gold to be carried
through the blockade into Yankee port
Among the articles which. for the future. may
be sent under the same arrangement 10 any o
our prisoners held at the North is tobacco.
and in one Of his letters Gen Grant, with charm
ing courtesy, expresses himself perfectly will
ing to receive at any place held by Fedora
troops" all such articles. including. of course
tobacco. We believe him well
This arrangDeht Is here mentioned. not I,
censure or object 10 IL: our poor prisoners (wh,
are turned importing merchants) will. one wa,
or another. get some comfort by il But. rs /
effects England and France. it may become seri
Gus Legally and technically. it is an end of th'
blOckade: and as England il furnishing for wan
of cotton. and France piniug for tobacco, ard a
the Yankee nation is now making gigantic ei
fort to close up from the cupdty of those wicke,
European merchants almost the only port which
has been hitherto open to them one cannot bu
begin TO think the hollow and fraudulent chsrac
ter Of this pretended blockade will soon be ad
United on all hands
The very port Of Mobile, which is now open
ed to let the North have fine cargo of cotton
il the port which was not permitted 20 be use
some time since TO send to England the none
we owed them. IL may be difficult, and we know
IN will ba IN uade ENGLAND reacnt ANYTHING m
United States may do. but where her trade an,
profits are directly struck at. and where Franc
has common cause perhaps she may be capa
bic Of being kicked up into some activity.