English manufacturers saw that the supply of the raw product from America could no longer be depended upon, and efforts were made to introduce the manufacture of the inferior staple from India, but the experiment proved in the main unsatisfactory and unprofitable.
Blaine explains how English manufacturers sought alternatives to American cotton due to supply issues during the war.
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