A single-page satirical engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1861, with a caption. A Southern cotton planter and other shabbily dressed men confront Confederate Treasury Secretary Memminger in his office, asking how they will feed their slaves if the government will neither buy their cotton nor let them sell it elsewhere. Memminger answers evasively that the new government needs their money and portable property. It is a political cartoon on the Confederate cotton embargo early in the American Civil War, not a weaving or textile-technique document.

A single-page wood engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1861, a political cartoon about cotton and the American Civil War. Columbia, the female personification of the United States, tells an English peddler named Jons Bras that she has no cotton for him. He answers that he is more concerned about selling small articles to feed his starving children. The image alludes to British dependence on American cotton during the Union blockade of Southern ports.