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Show ennis and the final nECiiomiic, In one corner of the Cotton Exchange building in Manchester, England, will be found a miniature bale of cotton under 'a glass case with this legend attached: . ' - "Part of the first bale of free cotton shipped from West Virginia, United States, to Liverpool, 1865. Free cotton is king, but what did it cost!" Why it cost vast suffering to the Lancashire cotton-spinners; three years of half starvation. Very nobly they bore their sorrows and to the last said : "Persevere, it is time that human slavery should be abolished." - On our side of the sea it cost 400,000 glorified lives, the very best of our people, North and South ; it cost heartaches that are not yet all cured; it-cost losses of property sufficient to have founded a new empire. But it is idle to discuss those losses unless . they carried with them a lesson. That les&m was that there is nothing ever gained by compromising with crime. The longer poultices are applied, the longer bargains are struck which tolerate it ; no matter what devices men resort to or what excuses they interpose, the final settlement settle-ment includes every item with interest attached. v Just now we read in wise journals their rejoicing that the troubles that have vexed Utah so long are ' i finally settled, and that by the highest court in the world. It is not the highest court because there Is an v appeal from it, an appeal to honest and enlightened , public opinion, an appeal to the sense of justice of a free people. . ' : It was a case where the instincts of the pure women wo-men of the Republic were vastly clearer than the interested in-terested desires of politicians. It did not cure one of the manifold great wrongs in Utah. It left nearly 300,000 people' the slaves of one man; it left a stain on the brows of thousands of pure women and chil- dren ; it left it in the hands of unscrupulous chiefs to violate at will the. necessary laws of our Republic; ! ! it in effect indorsed the breaking of solemn cove- nants made withj our Government, and in effect 1 (offered a bounty for both perfidy and perjury. . " i That appeal will be entered and in drie time a mandate will come down ordering a new trial, be-j be-j cause the fathers under inspiration planned that i . this Republic should be free, that to every child of it should be opened every opportunity in its range and J that is the law that is finally to be established that i eternal justice may be done. |