The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-17

mah FROM Massachusetts, (NIr. nuyGl IL
maSi1S the comparison which intend Il.
present to this house. In doing it, pray.l
may be understood, us not meaning any o.
fence TO any state, nor to any Individual
thereof. .Neyv. EemfShiie Cannot be consi-
tered Il COMMERCIAL state Judging from
the treasury report, the products CT It's labor
and agriculture So, presume TO swell the
amount OF exports from Massachusetts, FOR
their export Of native products is only
| S565 $50. Rhode Island may be conside red
commercial in proportion to her numbers. l
have ever admired the industry * enterprise
| OF her citizens, and have been gratihed in the
extension of her commerce but their COM
merce does not exceed the proportion which
is due to their nunbers-The amount of ex-
| port OF their products is 74l ,9S3 dollars
But Connecticut, Mr.. President, is sl. COM
mcrciale Every American traveller that
visits the eastern states, returns highly gra-
| tined with that state; he states with ex-
ultation and pleasure, the delightful fields
thereof; its high state Of agriculture It's
smiling villages and the content and hap
Pincss that beams on every human counte-
nance but does this arise from its external
commerce! 40, sir, we must give to Con-
necticut higher rank she is agricultural,
and will also be a great manufacturing
state; her citizens who annually emgratc,
| to swell the numbers of other states will
be induced to remain at home, and by their
labor and ingenuity, extend and promote the
manufactures of their native state. Her
port or export is probably New York /; with
what state, as commercial state shall
compare her? not with Georgia, for that
state, though with only half her population,
exports more than double the amount of
Connecticut. With South Carolina? No,
Sir, that state spares other products, to swell
| the exports of Baltimore, Philadelphia New
/ rorK, ana Boston, an amount equal to the
whole of the exports of the native products of
Connecticut. With Maryland. No, sir,
with population very little greater, Mary
land exports to near three times her amount
With wi.at part of the union shall then
compare ner commerce? 1t assimilates near
ly to that of the District of Columbia, it's ex
port being S1,563, 1852, when that of Conncc-
ticut is 81, $40 Os3.
| " Massachusetts,, yes. sir, Massachusetts is
really commercial. But not more so in pro-
portion to numbers than other states ; nav
not equal to some, for instance South Caro-
lima with half her number exports ST., 129,
sos, when Massachusetts exports of native
products only So, 185, 74S New York whose
population is the same with Massachusetts
exports S9,957 .Al6, being half as much
more as that exported by Massachusetts.
Maryland exports S4,O16,699, being in full
proportion to the exports ofthat state Nay,
sir, New York alone, exports more than all
the New England states together their
whole native export being only $685., 700.
But we may be told what is true, that the
trade of a country does not consist alone in
its native exports. We may get some infor-
ton by examining as wei. its native as it's TO
reign articles ofeXportation Lctus examine
it in that point of view. 1t will be found that
New York alone who appears to approve of
the embargo, IT we are to credit their go
vernor's speech and the answer thereto of
both houses of the legislature, does export of
all articles. foreign as well as domestic, to
agrcater amount than all the New England
states together, for her exports are S26, 357,
963, when the total exports of those states a
mount only to S24,O74, 433. Nay, sir, Mary
land exports an amount equal to three fifths
Of the whole of the New England states, her
general exports being Sl4 1913 ,984-I have
deemed 1T not Improbable to take this view
to shew the commerce of the u. States as
they compare with each other.
| The gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr
Lloyd,) has told us, and told us truly, tina.
the tonnage owncdby the citizens of that state,
is one third of the whole tonnage of the uni
on; that the want of employment thereof
causes an annual injury to the amount of six
millions Of dollars My calculation, Mr. Pre-
sident. does not make it near SO much but,
Sir, suppose the fact, is this attributable to
the embargo! l think not, sir on the con-
trary, that the owners Of these ships ought
to bless the wisdom and hrnness of those
who laid the embargo, and thus saved this
immense tonnage from British depreciation
and condemnation under their orders of coun-
Gil, and from French burning and destruction
under the internal decree of Milan. For it
| has been truly said, By an eminent merchant
OF Salem (Mr. Gray that not more than / YES
sci in that sailed for Europe within a short
time prior to the embargo ever reached her
port of destination. My own experience has
severely taught me the truth ofhis remark &
as a further proof, l have in my hand list
of15 vessels which sailed for Europe and
were insured in an Office in Baltimore
| They sailed between the 1st Sept and Esd
| December 1S07.--Threc arrived, one was
captured by the French, one by the Span-
ards, one was seized in Hamburg, and nine
carried into England But for the embargo,
| the ships of the u 5. that woald have sailed
| for Euro, would have shared fate at least
as badGn my opinion much worse) than
! that of those 15.-Not one in 30 would have
arrived, for those vessels that sailed in Sep
TENDER might well have arrived before the
| date of the orders in council filth Nov1 or
the DEGREES of France say again let the
| ship owners return thanks to their best
| friends, to- those who laid the embargo. AS
Que whose prope. y has thereby been saved