The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of ...
The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of ...
R Arthur Arnold
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in goods and 5d. in money. Hiis was the ostensible cause of the riots at Staleybridge. But riot is never caused by so reasonable a proposition as this, nor would there have been an outbreak at Staley- bridge, if the discontent of the ^ scholars ' had not been COTTON FAMINE. 357 excited by a greater intelligence than their own. The happiest accident of the Cotton Famine has been the scarcity of dem^ogues, and the best title of the suffering operatives to the political estimation of their country...men is that there has been no demand for these pests of society. Had they come forward they might quickly have made bad into worse, and the peaceful action of voluntary com- mittees might perhaps have been superseded by the harsh reign of martial law. But a demagogue is not always conscious of the effect of his language, and as the indi- vidual, whose inflammatory harangues excited the people of Staleybridge, had been consistent for five-and-twenty years, it may well be thought that he was guiltless of the -consequences of his words.
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