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Who will starve?

--The New York Day Book answers the question:

‘ The mistake that Mr. Lincoln and his party labor under is to suppose that the South will starve if they do not sell their cotton. This is a grand delusion. All the breadstuff necessary for their existence they can easily raise on their own soil, and if the South did not sell a pound of cotton for one year, it would by no means ruin her, while it would send starvation over the entire world. The products of the South as we have often shown, are of more interest to us and to Europe than to herself. The white mechanics, farmers, merchants, &c., of the North, make a larger per centage of profit out of the cotton crop than the South does. This war is one, therefore, waged against our own bread and butter, and we shall find it out before we get much farther into it.

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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 20, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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