But be it borne in mind;—­and we would urge it with greater earnestness than, aught which we have yet said,—­there is in England a large, noble body of men who do not sympathize with the Southern rebels; who are not sold, soul and body, to cotton; who see this struggle of ours as it is, and who would not willingly see us divided.  These men believe in industry, in free labor, in having every country developed as much as possible, in order that the industry of each may benefit by that of the other.  Honor to whom honor is due,—­and much is due to these men.  Meanwhile we can wait,—­and, waiting, we shall strive to do what is right.  England has her choice between the cotton of the South and the market of the North.  Let her choose the former, and she will grasp ruin.  We should suffer for a time, bitterly.  But out of that suffering we should come so strengthened, so united, and so perfectly able to dispense with all foreign labor, that where we were before as rough ore, then we should be pure gold in our prosperity.

The first statesmen of England have shown by their speeches, as the first British journals have indicated in their articles, that they earnestly believe what Stephens and hundreds of other Southerners have asserted, that all the wealth of the Northern States has come from the South, and that the South is the great ultimate market for the major portion of our imports.  Glancing over our map,—­as was done by The Times,-the Englishman may well believe this.  He sees a vast extent of territory,—­he has heard and witnessed the boasts and extravagance of Southerners abroad,—­he knows that where so many million bales of cotton go out, just so much money must flow in; he is angry at our Northern tariff of emergency, and so believes that by opening to himself the South he will secure a vast market.  Little does he reflect on the fact that, this step once taken, he will close up in the North and West his greatest market, one worth ten times that of the South, and constantly increasing, just in proportion as our population progresses more rapidly than that of the slave States.  It is no exaggeration,—­strange as it may seem,—­but this extraordinary ignorance has been manifested time and again by high authority in England since the war began.  But supposing the balance struck, and cotton found to be worth more to England than the market of the North.  Does not our very independence of English manufactures imply such a stimulus to our own, as to threaten that we shall thereby be in a much shorter time in a condition to compete with her in every market of the world?  Drive us to manufacturing for ourselves, and we shall manufacture for every one.  Already every year witnesses American inventiveness achieving new triumphs over British rivalry.  Has England forgotten the report of Messrs. Whitworth and Wallis on American manufactures, in which they were told that of late years they have been more indebted to American skill