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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], An English Opinion of the blockade. (search)
conceal from themselves that their wages are but a form of charity.--it does not pay the mill-owner to work, but he shudders at the prospect of some thousand fellow-beings reduced to utter penury. This cannot last long. Even if the mill-owner is willing to go on working at a loss, he must stop, because the material in which he works is unattainable. When the pleasant month of May opens, and the world is invited to admire the products of English industry and intelligence, Lancashire and Yorkshire, which have contributed so large a part to the brilliant display, will be vast tracts of hopeless pauperism, and the country, which standing on the cogs of the precipice, seems utterly careless of the danger, will itself suffer is every part from the mortification of such important members. And all this suffering and sorrow might be averted. If strong men are wasting, and weak women and children perishing from want of sufficient nourishment, it is from no one of those decrease of far