[Ditto]

I say that cotton is king, and that he waves his scepter not only over these thirty-three States, but over the island of Great Britain and over continental Europe, and that there is no crowned head upon that island, or upon the Continent, that does not bend the knee in fealty and acknowledge allegiance to that monarch. There are five million people in Great Britain who live upon cotton.

LOL. So the CSA embargoed cotton and the British said --- so what. They turned their mills to wool and then started cotton plantations of their own in Egypt and India.

Wigfall reminds me of the mouse floating on his back down the river hollering "Open the Draw Bridge!" But that about sums up the whole slaveocracy as well as their modern-day apologists.

[WhiskeyPapa]

So the CSA embargoed cotton and the British said --- so what.

The Slave Power was so unclever that they neglected to notice that Britain imported more wheat and other grains from the north than they did cotton from the south.

Oooops. Then they cleverly burned thousands of bales of cotton to stymie the market and bring the Brit Army and Navy in on their side. There was just one little problem......

Walt