Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-04-02
Total
I33,0i5 tons.

lotdi ISo,UlO tons.
Such is the prosperous condition of the ton
mage of tbs small Isan,l, with population OF
about l25,0O0 inhabitants But this is not the
extent of the trade we have transferred TO our
Northern ncighbors, by own blind and vol
untary restrictions on our intercourse with ioI-
eign nations.
The navigation employed in the commerce
between Nova Scotia and Great Britain. is lit
Ito more than onc-6stl of the whole. If the
tonnage OF, tho other provinces bear any thing
hko the same proportion, the foreign navigation
OF these colonies must actually be more thar C.
quail to the whole foreign tonnage of the Uni
ted States These colonies ale now enjoying
all the advantages Of free trade, and are flour.
ishlng as our country did under tho same sys
tenn from 1879 to 1907; their navigation is j.:
like manner advancing with astonishing rapidi
ty. We have lately seen a statistical account
ofthese Provinces, compiled from documents, in
the colonial department. From that, it appears,
mat, while our exports and imports of lS2S are
In amount, iitt!s, ii any thing, above the value
IN 1895 and 1867, and while orr foreign navca-
ton Is less than it was in 1907, the commerce
OF, these colonies with Great Britain has adj
eanced astonishngly. We have the returns
only for the years 1906 and IS25, which are re-
duced to dollars, viz: (,
Imports into GEeat Britain in l8O6, l7ll..o0;
in 1925, $685., IG0.
Exports to the cc!onics in 1905, 4,33S, OBJ in
1925, 9,G5G2I3.
Tonnage cntorins Great Britain from tho
colonies in ls)G, sc ,2!2; in lSa5, 4G2G3S
Tho population of these PROVINCES was, in |
lsC5, 400 l2; and 1925, :?3,453, Thz po3ula-
ton of all New England estimated according |
TO the census taton in 1890, 10, and %, was, in
1906, about $4,000; and in 1928, 1866 eco. |
New Eng land increased, in - years, abou; =! |
per cent, The British provinces in the same
term. more than rs per cent! Tho exports oi
tho colonies have been almost quadrup!cd in Il.
mount. and tho imports augmentcd from four Is
ten millions, while our exports and Imports Of
1923 are about the same in amount as they werc
in $780,, when OUR foreign commerce was first |
interrupted. The extraordinary comparative
results arc readily explained, when we reflect |
that, from lcUT to the presen! Tine our l;,rciun
trade has been embarrassed with restrictions. |
while these colonies have enjoyed an unintey. |
rupted free trade with Great Britain from that |
ciatc the advantages of reciprocal and free in
tercourse with Europe, when we witness such
results in the commerce of a country, compare
lively so deficient il, natural RESOURCES, so dimin-
uti'e IN population, and whose navigation is sus-
pended by an unlricndly climate for four or FIVE
months in every year.
The prosperity of these Colonies proves, not
only that we have aided Great Britain in her
plans to enlarge her commercial marine, but
that, by the extraordinary folly of our own laws,
NC llavo assisted ler in opening a new and in.
direct channel for the illicit introduction of her
manufactures to the consumption of North a
mer'ca' such Is The extraordinary manner in
which we have been for fifteen years counter
valling the policy of Great Britain We need
not apPrehend her retaliation while we persist
IN policy, so admirably calculated to destroy
ourselves, and TO encourage the growth of her
Colonies She may put an end to our CONNER.
c'a! treaty, wh;c' one Of her late ministry tells
Us, lie renewed conditonllly, for the cxnress
22rpoSo OF rcsorting to that cxpedient. if thew
- could not Terminate that system of CONNER.
ciai hostility, which England was not the first
to begin, bat tho first 10 larnert" Wheihar
she executes this threat CT no. is inonotcri,I.
Sho carried into full operation in JS25. policv
in relation 10 her North American possessiops f,
which, If VIC pcrsevero in our proh;birorv svs.
crn, must inevitably place The finances and nav. c
cation Of the United States in tho worst noss;. Q
dc condition. The RESOURCES Of no cono,rv :
we're ovcrPlnccd,!hy The folly Of its own Govern.
1cnt, IN such peril; so entirely n, (hc di,c-o.
ion OF the Power whose maritime strength she c
las most q Just reason to arpTchcnd. The r,,,.
'tcra Of Crcnt bTita'n well understand their sd. +,
antagcs over u.s. ard how 10 usa them. K,o-,. =
1g chat The 'radc with their colonies yyop,d 10
,orc profitable. as they might cnlar4c their IN.
'rconrso with other coInir:os, and pnrcs;yio-,
ow efitct1al'y they would counerya;l tho po,j.
Y VIC were bini!y pursuing, thy continued
o1 timc TO i!mo % crrHt nc;y PRIVILEGES =,
cir Northern pos.oss:ons on oC! frontier. oar