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The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The second American Revolution, as Viewed by a member of the British parliament. (search)
n imagine what is likely to be the distress in that part of the county. It may be asked, as I have seen it in some newspapers of the day. What has that to do with Essex? Now I say the people cannot suffer in Lancashire without you feeling it in Essex; and I will endeavor by a few figures to show you why I say so. The traffic betwEssex; and I will endeavor by a few figures to show you why I say so. The traffic between this country and the United States where the cotton is produced, and by the manufacture of which so large a class is fed, amounted during the past year to £67,631,993, that is to say that there was over £44,000,000 of imports from America and over £22,000,000 in exports; and you cannot suddenly put an end to such a portion as £are to obtain cotton wherewith to feed our large manufacturing population. It may be said that we have nothing to do with cotton; that we are going to be happy in Essex all the winter, spend a merry. Christmas, and we ought to let the people of Lancashire starve until all is blue; but I shall endeavor to show you that you are dir
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The second American Revolution, as Viewed by a member of the British parliament. (search)
visited this country he always thought the great preponderance of wealth, statesmanship, intelligence and power was in the North, and that the South was a more appendage of the Northern seat of empire; but that, upon personal examination, that opinion had been exactly reversed. Thus such speeches as those of Capt. Jervis will go far to disabuse the public mind of England of anti-Southern prejudices, stimulated, as the English mind now is, by the influence of those vital interests which unite the welfare of England intimately and indissolubly with that of the South. It will be observed that Essex county, to which Capt. Jervis addresses himself, is an agricultural, not a manufacturing county, and that he demonstrates to his audience that not only the manufacturing, but every great interest of England, is involved in the Southern question. His argument, also, in behalf of the principles on which the South is contending for its independence, are of the most lucid and cogent character.