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The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
our trade; they want to continue in the enjoyment of that tribute of millions which they have exacted from us for seventy years. They charge that South Carolina and the cotton States have been actuated by none but commercial motives in the course they have taken. Be it so; but we retort the charge upon themselves. The war on their part is a war of avarice. It is a war having its prompting in the same selfish motives which actuated Great Britain in her contest with the colonies. What did England care for her colonies aside from the gain they brought her? Her shipping monopolized their carrying trade; her manufactures monopolized their markets. They were her customers, her servants, her hewers of wood and drawers of water. Precisely in the same relation, as to commerce and trade, have the Southern States stood to the North. And this war of the North upon them is to perpetuate that relation. That is the object of the war; their motive is altogether selfish; it is the dictate of
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
to contend with. "The forts in all our harbors should be at once properly armed and garrisoned, the possession of those in the hands of the rebels is now the more imperative, and the occupation of every Southern seaport is indispensable for the prevention of that export of cotton which the British, under some pretext or other, will insist on maintaining. We are weak on the sea, comparatively, and they will take advantage of what they will term our ineffective blockade. The object of England is to destroy the power and prestige of this Government. They forget all our past kindnesses when starvation was overtaking a large portion of their people, when we returned to them the lost ship Resolute, and hastened to extend ovations to the Prince of Wales. An affectation of humanity, too, on their part, has obliged our Government to maintain for years past, at a great expense, a fleet on the African coast — and how are these sacrifices repaid now? By a recognition of a heartless and