How much cotton have they stolen
We has it stated, in the
Yankee papers that a ship of war, or some other sort of public ship lately carried to New York from,
Port Royal. 5,000 bags of unpinned See Island cotton, and the
Yankee editor raises a perfect yell of triumph over the acquisition Now, the
See Island cotton is put up in bags, and such bag with its contents weighs 150 lbs, that is when the cotton is ginned Four pounds of anginoid cotton make one pound of ginned cotton; so that mass 6,800 bags of unpinned cotton yield Just 1,700 bags ginned cotton.
At 150 lbs to the bag, we have 255,000 lbs of has Island cotton the result of their successful stealing at
Fort Royal This is only a portion it is believed but when all is put together the profits derived from their various marauding expeditions in that quarter have been miserably small.
At New Orleans Picayune
Butler has fared still worse.
The whole crop deposited there was destroyed before be took possession of the place.
But some foreigner, who happened to be a planter, sent in 300 bales when the port had been throw open under his proofs meson So far as the cotton market is concerned the port of New Orleans had as well remained closed.
The planters of
Mississippi and
Louisiana prefer burning it is sending it there.
On the
Mississippi river the planters have either hauled then crops into the
America out of the risen of their mending parties and prepared it for the torch, or have already burnt it. This is the case through out the entire
Southwest.
The people have determined that the
Yankees shell not have cotton under any considerations.
If any matter is immediately taken out of there bands and the forth is applied for them by their neighbors.
The object which has so much excited the cupidity of the depraved nature peculiar to the
Yankee active to already rendered They require for their own manufacture 1,000,000 of bales They have not obtained the fiftieth part of that amount.
Their manufactories therefore are not likely to start again in a hour.
How is
Seward to keep his promise to Lord Russell.
That he made some promise to the effect that he would open the ports, and simply him with cotton, can scarcely be dodged.
He has opened the ports, but where is the cotton?
The compact was but a rogues bargain at best.
But there is fidelity even among thieves.
Russell has kept his part of the bargain.
He has permitted the treaty of
Paris to become the laughing stock of the world rather than break with his ally.
He has permitted a race, of his corn kindred to be hunted down like doge — their homes to be invaded, their property to be plundered themselves to be slaughtered, in a war of avenges and conquest How is
Seward to keep his part of the comport, we again ask?
He has brought the horse to the water, but how if he to make him drink?
He has opened the great port of New Orleans.
but how in he to make the planters bring their cotton there?
The retribution due to Crimean of omission, as well as of commission, is not always postponed to the next world.
We find it following quick upon the heels of the sin, very often, even in this Lord Russell, by a word of his month could have put an end to this war six months ago, and thereby prevented the slaughter and destruction that has since taken place by merely adhering to the letter of the treaty of
Paris, which required that a blockade to be respected must be efficient, he would have aside this blockade, which had permitted the entrance of at least three hundred vessels.
The treaty was the work of his own hands.--He repudiated it through hostility to us, and a base compliance with our enemy.
His acts have been as hostile to us, as though he had declared war against us Now, how stands the case!
The cotton operatives are out of work.
They are on the point of starvation — A little more suffering brings them to open rebellion, and there is no cotton for them.
It is a burned or to be burned, and there will be no crop next year.
What will be the consequences we know not, but he could have done better if he would, and we hope he will have yet to been the penalty of his own criminal folly.
