The Arkansas advocate., 1830-11-17
THE WEST INDIA TRADE.

THE WEST INDIA TRADE.
 The opening of the West india ports
 to our vessels, is an event of no ordlia-. " importance to this country. Five years ago, the reciprocal conditions Oil which we are now again to participate l il it, were offered to Us by the British government. The last administration. ] in tiaeir wisdosn3 and their love yof .diDlo-
 macy, ejeeted the offer. The next year,
 that administration pefeeiving4its error,
 or its folly, when itwas too late to re-
 deem it, signified it's willingness to ac-
 cept the terms they had then so recent lYFefusetl; but the British government l 2 their turn, declined q renewal of the proposition. From that period down to ] the close of the late administration. con-. l snnous efforts were made by resident: 1 and extraordinary ministers, to effect he arrangement, which, under the pres ent administration, has beenyso speedily and happily accomplished.
 he etfeet. .ef this measure, upon thef commerce and productions of this coun-- i try, cannot be otherwise than highly ia, yorab!es A such, it has been received, Z
 as far as we have heard, with high grat-' i6cation.
 This resultsis the more gratifying, be- 4ause' it has been brought about in the
 midst oi the most confident, and the most insulting, predictions to the contra
 Try, by the opponents of the administra- tion. Every favorable statement on
 this subject, however wellgroanded,
 was denied in gross terms, and it's circu-i
 lation ascribed to electioneering efforts:
 and partizan partialify The public were grayely assured by those veracious
 chronicles the New York Commercial
 Advertiser and American, and the two
 Nationals at the seat of government,
 that it was all a humbag, that the ne-
 gotiatiens were afarce from which no-
 thing honorable or advantageous was
 expected; and that the result would be nothing. Even the issue of the recent
 election in Maine (so palsyirfg to their.
 hopes) was ascribed bythese honest jour:
 nalists, to the stories of the wicked Jack
 son-men, who had the affrontery to ex- press firm belief that the predictions
 of the opposition would be falsified, and that the negotiations would terminate
 favorably. How is it possible, they ex-
 claimed, if the late Administration, so
 resplendentssi Sin diplomacy could dono-
 thing, that an Administrations which sets Eup no special claimto that character, and which proceeds in a very mercan- tile and direct way in its negotiation, ct.,a
 bring this matter to a favorable issue?-
 The thing is impossible: at least we are
 resolved not to believe it, and to pre- vent, is far as possible, others from be- liieying it! Nevertheless the present
 Administration have accomplished it. i speedily and honorably-and in man. lncr that sufficiently rebukes the ill-na-8 Itured iIaisFepreseatations Of the 0pposi- tion.
 lfitshall be asked again, as it has been lalready done in hostility, apdat sasave tie lpeople gained 6y tszs .4dnuasssiraf1o with
 what honest grsitification may not it's friends point to the reform of official a
 buses--the detection of dishonest ser
 vants-the return to . strict aecounta-
 bility by public agents-the reduction Iof the national debt-the diminution of three million of taxes--the arrest, by | the veto, of profuse and unconstitu- tional expenditure which threatened the exhaustiono of the treasury-the re-
 moval of restraints upon commerce, and of taxes on the consumer, by the rednc- ltion of duties on articles of necessity and not of domestic production-tbe establishment of the most ia favorable rc. lations with all the nations of the world "a treaty with the Porte on highly ad- ]
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