[untitled] ; COLUMBIA. 'Now it's no use your're coming round here, JOHN, I haven't any Cotton for you.' JOHN BULL (an English Peddler). 'Well, Mum, it ain't the COTTON I care so much about just now, but if you would only Purchase a few small Articles to help me to Buy BREAD for my Starving Children.'

November 16, 1861 ; This cartoon shows John Bull as a peddler trying to sell "a few small Articles to help me to Buy BREAD for my Starving Children." He is responding to Lady Columbia stating that she has no cotton for him. Though the U.S. Naval Blockade successfully cut off the majority of cotton exports from the South, this was offset by other markets around the world. The real issue for the British was diplomatic tensions arising from the war between them and the US government. Britain relied heavily on US food imports and tensions from the war (as well as the supply needs of the US Army) interrupted the food trade to Britain.