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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], American Affairs in Europe. (search)
g the recess, has very likely more to do with Lord John Russell's retirement from the House of Commons than is generally supposed. Lord John Russell has not been a match for the wily Western lawyer into whose hands the destinies of the United States have fallen, and he has, in plain English, been shamefully overreached. With a stoppage of the American supply of cotton, Manchester, from sheer necessity, must fall to pieces no matter what the supply of cotton from India, or the Cape, or Jamaica may be in the meantime; and were so great an interest to be destroyed, the stability and credit of the nation, we need hardly say, would be put to a trying test. American cotton gives to Manchester what no other cotton gives--it gives it credit; and the credit given has, as a rule, been stretched to its widest limit. Ten thousand pounds worth of American cotton may be spun and woven in one Manchester factory in a day, and the spinning and weaving are no sooner over than the yarn or cloth