60/80 There was a real "famine" of cotton; there would have been none of wheat, merely a higher cost. (This fact, a vital one in determining influence, was brought out by George McHenry in the columns of _The Index_, Sept. 18, 1862.) (3) The fact, in spite of all Mr.Schmidt's suppositions, that while cotton was frequently a subject of governmental concern in _memoranda_ and in private notes between members of the Cabinet, I have failed to find one single case of the mention of wheat. This last seems conclusive in negation of Mr. |