The effectiveness of the blockade of main ports for ocean-going vessels carrying bulky cargoes was proved, he declared, by the price of raw cotton in England, where it was 100 per cent.

greater than in the South, and of salt in Charleston, where the importer could make a profit of 1,000 per cent.

To raise the blockade, he argued, would be a direct violation by Britain of her neutrality.

The real reason for this motion was not the _ineffectiveness_ of the blockade, but the effectiveness, and the real object an English object, not a Southern one.

Gregory was taunted for changing a motion to recognize the Confederacy into the present one because he knew the former would fail while the present motion was deceitfully intended to secure the same end.