Year: 1861

1t isl favorite theory of the secession
politicians, that The business Of shipping
and manufacturing cotton is The principal
means of subsistence Of the eighteen or
twenty millions of people who live in the
non-saveholdiDg States They imagine,
too, that the least interruption in the move
ment of cotton, will reduce the bulk of the
Northern population to the very brink Of
starvation. and for some time have been
patiently waiting in the expectation that
every mail from the North would bring ac-
counts of "bread riots" in some of the man
ufacturing districts. A writer in the
Charleston Courier advises South Carolina
to suspend military operations for time,
until starvation has commenced its work,
when the operatives Of the North will rise
in mobs and compel submission to the de-
mands of the South. He says:


"The Northern people have an enemy at
their own doors who will do our work for us, if
we are not insane enough to take their myrmi-
dons off their hands. The winter of their dis
content is but beginning to dawn. They have
a long, dark winter, of cold and hunger, inn
pending over their heads before it is over, they
viii have millions OF operatives without work,
and without bread.


In all human probability, before another Sum-
mer melts their e-bound hills, blood-human
have flowed in their streets. When
cold and hunger begin their work, this deluded
rabble will ask aims at the doors Of the rich,
with pike and fire-brands in their hands. Our
Northern enemies will then find that they have
business enough to attend to at their own doors,
without troubling themselves about keeping forts
on Southern soil. They have got the wolf by
the ears and they have fair prospect Of be-
ing bit unless we are charitable enough to take
the beast off their hands. If the North can fur
nish bread for its paupers for the next months,
we'll. II not, their rulers will answer for it in
blood. 1t was simply the want of bread that
brought Louis XVI to the guillotine and New
York, as well as Paris, can furnish her Theroign
de Maricourt, who may sing her carmagnoLe
up Broadway with Stewards head upon pike


Our Northern enemies are locked up with
their million of operatives for the Winter, and
how they are to be kept quiet no man can tell"


1t is barely possible that politicians may
succeed in getting up something resembling
a bread riot among the "deluded rabble''
in some of the Northern cities, but "in all
human probability" when another summer
has unlocked the "ice-bound hiIls' Of New
England, the writer Of the above will be as
tonlshed to find that the "paupers" have
been furnished with bread, and will still be
In total darkness as to how the "mllion Of
operatives" have been kept quiet"


Judging from all accounts, the people Oi
the seeding States are almost the only sue
ferers by the secession excitement, and il
they expect to starve the North into submis-
sion to their demands. they have dreary
time before them. In the New England
States, in particular, there is a vast amount
of wealth, which is more equally distributed
among the people than in any other section,
and the South would have to keep back at
least three crops Of cotton before they would
come TO terms. By that time the Yankees
would become so accustomed to doing with
out shirts that they might dispense with
the article entirely.