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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Shipments of provisions. (search)
ted for the other, for both are wanted — each being indispensable.--So of cotton and flax. It is folly, commercially and industrially speaking, to talk of substituting flax for cotton. "Flax cotton," as it is called, was prepared by Lady Moira in 1775, though a similar process was patented by M. Claussen, a Frenchman, in England, about ten years ago. Previous to Lady Moira's successful experiments, the process was described by Lilljikrewies and Palmquist in 1745 They made use of a solution of caustic potash for the purpose. In 1777 Baron Meidingen proposed the use of alkalies in the preparation of "Flax cotton," and established a factory near Vienna. Similar methods were brought to the notice of the public by Kreutzer in 1801 by Stadler and Haupfner in 1811, by Sokow in 1816, and by others on the continent. Cotton is the great universal vestment of humanity, the great civilizer of the world, and King as it has been in peace, it will prove itself even more supreme in war.