Year: 1862

From the Chicago Timesl


We have it by the last advices from Europe
that mass meetings were in progress in the man
ufsCtuTing districts of England, and that they
were petitioning the government either 70 at
tempt mediation in American affairs or TecOg-
nizs the Southern COnfedeTacy. The London


TlmsS, however, opposes both ideas, and very
properly thinks cotton will be obtained easier
by letting us alone. The supply of cotton is
nearly exhausted, producing the long foreseen
result of stOppage of machinery and the throw
ing out Of employment of millions of operatives.
How these people are to be sustained is a ques-
ton that will exercise to the utmost the ingenu-
ity OF British statesmen. British interest in our
war and its results is enormous, and looks far
beyond the present. The burning of cotton and
cultivation only of grain by the South are as
mucha defiance to England as to US. It is say
ing to her, you wish to purchase as badly as
we wish to sell-money viii not buy our great
staple, but recognition will-' She dare not re-
cognize the South, for she knows the obstinacy
and determination of our people, and fears that
Intervention would prove the destruction of the
cotton interest on this continent


The North British RcCisl0 estimates the num-
Der of British labOrers dependent upon the cotton
trade for support at four millions; and the fest
minister Rs0ie'7 places the amount of British
capital engaged IN it at FIVE hundred millions
From these estimated alone the extent of danger
to be appIehended from the stoppage of the trade
can be readily seen. But the remedy is beyond
the pTescienC5 of the most sagaciOUs The diff
hculty is not temporary one. The campaTa-
lively small amount of cotton on hand in the
Southern States would afford a very insufficient
supply, were there no obstacles in the way of OBJ
tanning it. The persistent 0bstinacy of the
South in not culGvaiing it Will make the crop
almost a failure next year. 1t is obvious that
whatever stimulus England may give to the cul-
tivstiOn elsewhere, there must q long time inter
vene before she can again put her manufactures
in motion.


The day Of retributiOn has come, and come in
the shape of famine around English hearth
stones So be it. We lament that the poor
must be the principal sufferers


England, in helping to fan the fame of sec
tioual hatred in this country, has blown the tire
that burns herself Her Thompsons Suther-
lands and Broughams, and swarm of insight
fesnt and less worthy interme1dlers, have been
efficient co-woTters with our Garrisons, Phillips
and Beechers New England has found an ally
in the old The houses Of Beecher and SutheT-
land have established q mutual admiration so
ciety. The toadyism of the first has been re-
paid by the fattery of the last. Their doc
trines have led to a division of this country
and q suspension of trade with the South In
England is inquiring what she
shall do with her millions of starving operatives.
The question is eagerly asked now. How much
more of earnestness will there be in it as time
shall increase the pressure. The people Of Man
chester now say TO the government, give Us cot
ton, ana the government is helpless. Soon they
will say, give us bread, and the government
must respond In the wealth of her own citi-
zens she must find help. Let the mobiles dis
gorge-depetion viii do them good. Let Eng
lish abolitioni5ts disgorge-their philanthropy
then will be practical. Meanwhile, we do not
fear her Intervention. She has now a task suf-
fcient to employ all her resources.