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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
can only get it when the independence of the Southern Confederacy is recognized and the blockade abandoned. If the English do not need cotton, we can afford keep it, we suppose, until she does need it. If they should be such fools as to side with the North, hoping to get the cotton through the Northern Government, we shall decline, unless we get in a tight place, and then we can burn it without much trouble. Cotton is king, let him be crowned. Joshua commanded the sun to stand still upon Gibeon, and the moon to remain pendant over the valley of Ajalon, until he should conquer the enemies of his God and his people. Thus say we to the manufacturing interests of the civilized world, thank God for the power of cotton! It is the true sceptre of the sceptre of the empire of commerce. The South has the noblest elements of constitutional liberty, the grandest cause ever defended by arms, the most chivalrous people, the bravest fighting men, the most beautiful women, the finest climate a