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MR. BULL DIDN'T GET HIS COTTON.
Because of the blockade, by the Union fleets, of the Southern cotton
ports, England was deprived of her supply of cotton, and scores of
thousands of British operatives were thrown out of employment by the
closing of the cotton mills at Manchester and other cities in Great
Britain. England (John Bull) felt so badly about this that the British
wanted to go to war on account of it, but when the United States eagle
ruffled up its wings the English thought over the business and concluded
not to fight.
"Harper's Weekly" of May 16th, 1863, contained the cartoon we reproduce,
which shows John Bull as manifesting much anxiety regarding the cotton
he had bought from the Southern planters, but which the latter could not
deliver. Beneath the cartoon is this bit of dialogue between John
Bull and President Lincoln: MR. BULL (confiding creature): "Hi want my
cotton, bought at fi'pence a pound."
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Stories and Anecdotes About the Life of Abraham Lincoln
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