Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-01-20

their xerton. even upon thi, frontier have In gene
rat been adequate all substantial purposes Such wa
the case even wht they called uroD 10 enforce
the embargo aud bon- ereourss lave, when they
ceivcd but little sympathy encoar dgeGcnt from the
moral Of the community. The tact IL, however,
too clear to require argument, that the amount Of trade
10 be carried on by smuggling, however successful,
would he nconsje' abe In comparison with the extent
and profits OF and guar intercourse and there
fore Is entitled to but little weigh, even when garded
with a view to pecUniary results. Lord Aberdeen will
not require to be reminded that, proven, Illicit trade,
10 chi, fly necessary To remove the temptation OF
prices 10 create risk greater than the TO be
gained by successful fraud. Nothing could DO more
easy than this in respect the mode OF
under consider atien.
Il The interposition OF the custom house officer would
scarcely be requisite TO prevent the introduction OF w.
India produce into the u States hf ough the northern
colonies. Arrangsm~ nts could readily be made with
the powers which The foreign islands belong, to fur
Dish the requisite supplies OF West India produces from
those islands, on cheap ers, and in steady and abund
ant quantities. Those arrsng emen,s would Ct them
selves forbid competition. But whilst American flour
can he carried to the British West Indies cheap from
the United States through the 10 ego islands as through
the northern possessions though subj TO the discri
mnating duty, in favor Of the latter, Of Eve shings
per barrel, II will not be supposed that the bulky
eles CT sugar rum, and moiase without such aid can
be temt through the northern possessions by the
risk oil detection and tie penalties OF the law.
The undersigned does not believe that the tempta
lions and ci ify for the introduction into the the
colonies OF ourosnd other articles from the U. States,
4 are materially greater.
So far the trade with the British West Indies can
operate as an inducemen it has been already that
American produce is carried thther cheap through
the foreign islands the northern ports The supply
Of American flour in the northern colonies is believed
be principally furnished by the Genesee country and
the country bordering upon Lake Erie and it stands
admitted in the evidence upon the archives OF the House
Of Commons, that for flour, the market at New York
is generally better than the market Montreal and
Quebec. Indeed Important is the operation Of these
facts, that the most intelligent merchants suppose hat
go much OF the American trade with the British West
Indies passes through the northern colonies instead
of the foreign islands, chiefly diverted hither by the
I nj in fhnsn
cargo suitable to the West India market.
In the testimony afforded by the inhabitants of Lower
Canada to the committee of the House of Commons in
1896 1t was asserted and remained uncenadcted, that
against tho superintendent OF the British custom
house officers, would be impossible .muggle any
part OF cargo, barrel of flour, into the pro-
vince of Lower Canada " On this ground they were
enabled to encourage the introduction of American
flour in proportion TO the OF their exports to the
west Indies and other places, without danger OF its be-
ing brought into the home consumption. And the en-
enlargement then given shows the importance attached
by His Maesys government TO that evidence On this
suppositon Lord Aberdeen will readily acknow ledge
the facility with which the United States, through
means OF custom house police, strengthened and ex-
terded according to their means, may accomplish the
same ends; especially the reader interdction
Of the return trade from Canada into the United States
by diminishing the means Of payment, would also d.
minish the motives to incur the risk and penalties Incl
dent to prohibited trade The undersigned is appre-
hensive that he has already dwelt longer upon these
considerations than necessary after much personal
explanation as he has heretofore had the honor OF yield
Ing, and will content himself, TO any further argu-
ments that might be offered, with referring the vari
other suggestions which have been made by him in
the course Of this negotiation. He cannot, however
entirely dismiss the subject without repeating, for the
last time, his deep solcitude for the result and without
most earnestly recalling the attention of His Majestys
Ministers TO the state which the relations between the
two countries would be left should this point be unfa-
vorabiy decided. In such the government of the
United States while disappointed in its cherished hopes
OF an arrangement by mutual AMI reasonable conces-
sons, would find nothing conciang in the retrospect
OF long course of fruitless negotiation and nothing
| in tha ftt.,r
be, by the possibility Of a recurrence, by the two ma
tons, TO that system of countervaing measures that
has already proved detrimental to their harmony and
The undersigned takes this to renew 10 Lord
Aberdeen tho of his highest respect and con-
sideration.
LOUIS McLANE
To the Hon. the Earl of ABERDEEN, &c. SC.
Extract Of a letter from Mr. .MLane to Mr.. Pan
Buren,, dated London, 9Th apriI, 1880.
SRI have had conference with Lord Aberdeen
to-day, which sought for the purpose of urging the
dehnitve answer TO my proposition relative the CO.
lonia trade In my previous conference, he gave me
some reason to expect that it would be given
for this packet but regret say that this expectation
has not been realized He that the DELAY ha
been wholly able, and that proce from no
indisposition to obvate the difficulties il that be pract-
cable, which lie In the way of satisfactory adjustment
of the question.
hae not ia led to represent to him the very serious
injury and embarrassment which must result from de-
laying the answer unless the Congress shall rise and
oil what fear may be the insuperabe difficulties of any
prospective Legislation with view to future arrange
ment. None of these efforts have vet proved sufficient
TO bring the
Undor these circumstances, unless Congress shall
continue in session until the val of the packet of the
10th inst. which hope they will do it will not be pos
sible to get the decision in time to be submitted that
body. Deeply as lament this state of things, need
scarcely say that it has not been possible for me- by any
exertion, to avoid il.
In this stage of the business it may be proper for me
to remark that the negotiation must end in one of three
modes in positive refusal to change the present reg
ulations revocation of the order i'm Council of
1926 upon the terms OF my proposition, in revoca
ton OF that order, with increase of the duties
posed by the act OF parliament Of 1925, in favor of
productions OF the northern possessions.
Looking well to the progress of the negotiation as
to the obstinate and Persevering opposition, by the in
terests in those northern possessions, any change
whatever, and to the influence which il is obvious they
exercise here, confess that the last mode appears TO
the most probable do not believe that any egis-
laon by Congress, with view to that state of things
and vesng in the President discretion to regulate the
trade rescind laws in either OF these contingent
cies, would in any manner prove prejudical.
Extracts Of letter from Mr. Pan Buren, to Mr. NJ.
Lane, dated
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WdShingfOH June 1S, 1880.
dental message which sent by the President TO the
two Houses Of Congress- during its late session. in pur-
suaDce OF your suggestion that the measure recon-
mended by II might be made useful in your negotia-
tons with the British Government, together with
copy OF the law which was tho result of that message
IL ~ confidently hoped that the law referred TO- with
the motives in which IL originated, and which secured
rapid passage through the two Houses of Congress-