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Cleveland Daily National Democrat
Nov 20 1860


Anticipating a secession, it is said, the English Cabinet have already empowered their Consuls at Charleston and other Southern ports to enter into a Treaty which will allow the South to send their cotton free of duty to England, while English woolen and English cotton manufactured goods would be received free of duty into the cotton States of the South. England would thus achieve the great object of her ambition, to have a monopoly of the raw cotton, and thus to strike a deadly blow at her great rival, the United States, and the result would be, that the cotton factories of the North, their best markets cut off, the price of the raw cotton advanced, would be crippled if not entirely used up, and England have the monopoly of that great trade.

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