Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-09-14

u al. Committee OF the House OF Representatives
Ia 1922 (p. 10Y is alike different. Ne are fuHv
dppftsed our couaferraiiiHg p0iicy is operating
as effect THE BRITISH ISLANDS ARE
NOW SUFFERING THE GREATEST pRI-
pA11ONS, AND EC-Js.jl.a.N'Y or THEM
IRE LOSING THEIR POPULaTIO.S:"
These British Statesmen must either be very bad
very weak men. In 1924, they make offers
that the circumstances of their own country do
not and II they had been acce ped by the
u States they never would have kept heir faith
The situation OF France and Russia, now supplying
the West Indies, under this very system, is really
10 be piied.
But, all this Notwithstanding, / continue TO awe
that British ship-owneis have it fully in their
power to-comrete with any ship-owuer in the
world, those of the Baltic and Greece. TO
alIude to the fact That occurred in ~. York not
three months since, and to which | alluded in IN
last. is superfluous.
All Great Britain wants is real reciprocity =
What do the newspaper writer, who make such
a boast about MIR. Husksson's " re,racing his
steps" tell IA, at the very moment they make tn.
boast?
I" The privileges granted TO foreign ships of im-
por'ins into any of the Brush possessions abroad
ere limited to the ships of those countries which,
having colonial Possessions, shall grant the like
privileges OF trading British ships. Order In
council, however, to regulate foreign ships il other
gespecis.
&eiiOu. Iulltel 10 10 mon LOT u reign cCun-
tries to take advantage OF the reciprocity act;
and such countries Place D==.. tipva
The same footing a. their own shipping, or OF that
OF the most favored nstion shall be certified by
order in council
What proof does this act contain Of the retrac-
ton, except in the 3" fifteen enumerated articles;
shree among them, " cork, lemons, oranges, and,
perhaps, fiiberts.''
The language o! this rev law is. that Of the
act OF 1924, and there cannot be one moments
doubt that act of liberal Legislation On the
part OF Congress, would now open the ,Iade. The
course which has been adopted by he Administrs-
iion OF Mr.. Adams. has compelled Grea, Britain
20 appear hostile TO the shipping of the u States;
an hostility apparently aggravated by the foreign
hi!nisier's manner OF writing, which he no
more avoid than Mr.. Adams Rhetoric in a
diplomatic despatch but it is impossible ha, Brit
ish Statesmen can, for one II oment, forget that
both policy and interest, well asregard and good
viii, prompt different
The foolish principle, that man IS loss is an
others gain, is aba ndoned. To use the words OF
Mr.. Canning'- great master in politics, Lord
Grenyille -" The barrier Of prejudice is shaken.
The principle OF monopoly is giving way to juster
principles of trade, and the change of public OPT
MON in this country &c. b. is seconded by The
great revolutions of The world.''
"What scene does Thu present 10 the magma
ton! We told, that when the Spanish dis.
coveTers first overcsme, with labor and peril al
which divide the Western from the Atlantic
shores of ). America, they stood fixed In silent
admiration, gazing the vast eXpsnse of the
Southern Ocean, ~ hich lay stretched before them
in boundless prospect. They adoIeI the gracious
Providence, which, after the lapse of so many
centuries, had opened to mankind 80 wonderful a
field OF unhesrd and unimasined enterprise But
theirs was the glory OF conques, the prey of unjust
ambition. AS vast a. theirs; but infinitely more
honorable: far higher both in purpose and in re-
compense are the hopes with which The same pros,
poets elevate our hearts. Over COUNTRIES yet un
known 10 science and in parts which British navi-
CATION has scarcely yet explored, hopeio carry
the tranquil srts-the social enjoyments- the
friendly and benevolent intercourse of commerce. d
&c BY The link of mutual interest by the bond
of recipi ocal good viii, hope to connect to-
gether the remotesi regions of the eaIth; humble
and weak. but not rejected instruments OF that
great purpose OF cur Creator, which he has laid in
me reciprocal necessities. both of individual ant
nations the firaiest ground work OF human So
ciety.''
will resume the subjec. in another paper.
TN old Correspondent.
South Caroline, Sept. ., 1927.