Pictorial Envelope: 1 envelope; 3 x 5 1/2 in. John Bull with a paper printed with 'Manchester' in his pocket kneels before a large, crowned anthropomorphic bale of cotton. The man Bull is stepping on a slave on the ground. White envelope with many colored ink. Image on left side. Printed above image: 'COTTON IS KING!' 'No. 2.' is printed in upper-left corner of envelope. Printed below image: 'Old England is mighty; Old England is free; / She boasts that she ruleth the waves of the sea; (But between you and I, that's all fiddle-de-dee;) / She cannot, O Cotton~ she cannot rule thee. / Lo! Manchester's lording thy greatness shall own, / And yield more to thee than he would to the Throne: / For before thee shall bend his fat marroe-bone, / And deaf be his ear to the live chattel's groan.' Printed along bottom edge of envelope: 'Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by STIMSON & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.'
