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TUe favourable features of tbe picture (if, m speaking of such a contingency, we may use such a term) are these :— First, no man can be blind to the terrible suffering which is impending over Lancashire, Cheshire, and Lanarkshire in the coming spring if the cotton of America continues to be alto- | gether withheld from us, and no man can think of it with levity. It is indeed remarkable that we think of it so little, and that our views are coloured by it to so slight an extent; and it is most creditable to our manufacturers that, in tho face of such a calamity, they have borne the blockade with , so much patience, and look upon the prospect of a war which would terminate it with so little longing. Of course, the very first effect of the war would be to open all the Southern ports; to give us, not indeed a very ample, but still a fairly adequate supply of the kdispensable raw material; and to relieve three or four millions from idleness and want. Against the horrors of war we should be able to set our rescue from the horrors of starvation. Secondly. At all times and under all circumstances, as
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London Morning Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Dec 30, 1861
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