The Cairo Daily Bulletin

One of General Butler's methods of getting even with England is "non-intercourse." He would abolish all intercourse between the two countries, and thus protecting "our manufactories, would very soon make good all the losses by the Alabama, for which the government ought to issue bonds and pay to the individual claimants." One month of non-intercourse with England would inflict more injury upon the agricultural interests of the West and South than the Alabama claims, if paid twice over, could repair. Our chief market for cotton, corn, wheat and flour would thus be closed against us, and the value of those products be so reduced as to impoverish the millions who expend their time and energies in agricultural pursuits. Such an arrangement would still further enrich New England manufacturers, however, and to that fact may we ascribe its popularity among Yankee Radicals.