Year: 1859

Saturday Revie,o that if you take an Englishmau
and send him abroad, deprived of those institui
tions and freed from those restraining influences
which surround him in his native land, you make
him an American--ss selfish and unprincipled ;
ready to trample under his feet those whom he
deems to be an inferior race. The pro.slavery
course of the London Times and the radical Lead,
or, and the cotton influence which may be traced
in The speeches Of Messrs. Golden and Bright,
and the columns of their chief organ, the Munches
ter Examiner and Times, show that motives of
mere humanity have little restraining influence
even in England, when political or commercial in.
terests interfere.


The writer Of recent article in Household
Words Informs US that "the quantity of cotton
and wool brought into England every year might
be piled into pyramid which would rival that of
Cheops. The eight thousand five hundred and
seventy two millions of miles of yarn spun in Eng.
land in a year might be wound round and round
the earth, as boy winds string round his top !;
or, might throw the shuttle over distant Uran-
us, and then tangle togetherthe red planet Mars )
the Earth, Venus, Mercury, and the Sun in our
net of cotton. The whole Of the British Island
might be wrapped up in cotton wool, and put by
carefully for the inspection of future ages, in not
very many years consumption Of that raw maze.
rial. Ninety years ago, at the commencement of
our manufacturing career, the population Of Brit.
ain was about eight millions. Now it has reach
ed twentyone millions. If it were not for cotton,
we could not keep our millions in England clust.
ering in masses round the central manufacturing
towus. If it were not for cotton, we could not
clohe them; and, if it we're not for cotton, we
could certainly not feed them.


"a rise in the price of cotton is considered in
Lancashire to be n national calamity. When the
increase in the price of cotton is, as it was last
year, three pence pound it is not the manuiac.
turers only who suffer


"The thirteen millions OF money represent not SO
much the losses of the few as the failing Of bread
and meat and beer in the cottages of our workmen
and the pressure which tells heavily on trades.
men.


''If we look to the early rart Of the present
century, we shall find that we then received our
supplies of cotton from upwards of thirty differ
ent parts Of the world, and that amongst the small.
est of the contributions were those from the Unit,
ed States. AT the present time, from most OF
those thirty countries receive no cotton what
ever. We depend now almost entirely upon the
United States; that is, receive from them nine.
tenths of our supply, and because that supply is
insu ffcient, cotton rises three pence per pound
England, then, with her vast requirements not on.
ly for prosperity and political preeminence, but
for the very daily bread of millions Of her inhab.
itants, is rot in better position than Ireland was
before the famine for cotton is to the English
more than the potato to the Irish. We must re.
member that if blight should fall on cotton like
that which converted the potato field into grave
yard, or if this plant of the mallow tribe should
he attacked by an epidemic like that which has
left the fertile vineyards Of Madeira desolate, our
manufacturers and trading classes would be in.
volved in hopeless ruin, and millions would be de.
prived both of work and food"


Tho writer then shows that since it is essential
to the security of England that she should not de,
pend solely upon the United States for our supply
no time should be lost in promoting cotton cult.
vation elsewhere, especially throughout those re,
gions of Africa where the plant is indigenous and
which are capable OF furnishing it in cxhaustless
quantity.


Under these crcumstance we must not wonder
that the ant'savery spirit of England is faint and
feeble, and that there few who exhibit much
zeal in behalf of the abotioniss. We are bound
to admit that for one who comprehends or cares to
promote a larger treatment Of this question. by
strengthening and extending the public convic-
tons against slavery, without which the system
can never he disturbed or overthrown, there are
many who are ready to spend their efforts on some
81 lie issue which has no more connection with the
abolition of slavery than Mrs. Partngton' IS
broom had to do with keeping back the waves of
the Atlantic. To aid the escape offugitiye slaves,
or the elevation of free colored Americans, or 80
help a colored editor because he is colored or be,
cause he is eloquent and with little regard to his
measures or his consistency, may be very charita'
BILE, but it is not anti slavery work.


Again, the anti. slavery cause cannot be carried
on in the interests Of sects political parties 1t
must deal faithfully with ALL and neither sect nor
party will tolerate rebukes of their own short
comugs. The true abolitionist will accept ali as
sisance that is honestly offered, he proposes no
shibboeth and will not refuse to others that lib'
erty which he claims for himself. Well, then, the
number of those who love such liberty is exceed
'ingly few, and therefore the aboitioniss every
Wncre nave lonely uuu upHlil loau 10 clluD'


The (London) Statesman lately charged Mr..
Surge of Birmingham with having paralyzed the
anti-savery zeal of English Quakers by his sym.
pathy for non resistance. We believe the charge
to be true, but sure that the reason which the
Statesman gives for it is not the correct one. Mr..
Surge abhors the non resistant doctrine because
it is practically undistinguishable from his own
peace principles, very substantial reason for the
odium MeOlOgicum it all its forms and because
the non resistant views are held by some of the
more prominent American abolitionists who are
not orthodox quakers. Mr. Surge and his follow.
ers will have nothing to do with themselves or
their cause. 1t is extremely difficult for Eng
lish editor to understand that no American oan be
consistent abolitionst, and take part in political
action since, in order to do SO, he must first