Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1842-09-24
From the New York Morning.


Yade have more strongly impressed oor
maids than It's relations TO the moral anne. Il
Iteration of society. We do not believe v
that free trade could at once make the q
world what i: should be; but we believe I
that ii would place the world in condi-
ton TO become so, and help it long the
way. Ii would bind the diverse interests
of nations into solemn league OF good
will. Men seem 10 have taken il for
granted, that the diversity which prevails
in the climates and soils of the earth should
be reason for diversity Of interests
amongst It's inhabitants. Because there
are different governments, they infer that
there should be hostile governments. But
such was not the intention Of nature.
The differences and dverSities of which
we speak, are designed to enlarge the
number Of our enloyments. The products
which contribute to human comfort and
Improvement are multiplied by means OF
it. The uxurlant fruits of the south, the
useful ores of the north, the agriculture OF
one region and the manufactures Of an
other, are thus made atainabIe TO the
whole human race. This is an advantage,
however, that can only be appropriated
through free trade. Restraints and pro-
hibltions confne all people to their own
narrow limits.
Free trade makes the wealth Of each
nation the common property of all. 1t
spreads every where, whatever the DEITY
had made for the lruilion Of his creatures.
II leads TO perpetual interchange, TO an
unceasing batter of one blessing for an
other, To a general and ever growing feel
ing o. amity. Ii weayes through the RAM
licalions OF society SO many ties OF trade;
it binds the mutual dependence of nations
so firmly; it connects one with another
by so many ligatures, brings them into
such free and friendly neighborhoo6, that
disruption and war are morally rendered
impossible. Those rancoroua feuds, in
which millions of property and millions OF
of precious lives are lost, could never
arise. They would beinstant destruction
10 all parties; while on the other hand,
should any disagreement at any time oc"
cur, more safe and rational mode Of ar
bitration than war would be the universal
resort. Why is ii, that the twenty SIX
sovereign and independent nations, known
as the Unted States, maintain themselves
ia harmony? They are, in many respects,
a distinct people; they have their peculiar
manners, their local interests, their do
nestle institutions; yet tberei is no banded
police on their frontiers; no standing ar
mics in their ciladels. Different as are
their interests in one sense, free trade has
made them harmonlse. Reciprocity and
intercourse have given them strong at
tachment. They feel themselves TO be
; fellows: they know themselves to be one.
Well, then, let the same relations be
Instituted among the nations Of the earth;
let them be placed upon an equal footing;
let the ports OF the world be opened to The
world; the whole world offered to the en-
ioyment of the whole world; and there
would be the same prosperity and peace
among the nations as there are among the
various United States. L Ht
1t is among the greatest distinctions
aud the following happiness, OF the age in
which we live, that the steady march Of
opinion both here and elsewhere is 10.
wards emancipation from ancient com.
mercial restraints. 10 England, few
yeurs since. the name OF free trader was
SYNONYMOUS with that of visionary, and in
our own country, where it was by.word
and lest among the politicians, there are
forming large and powerful parties, whose
main bond Of corporate existence, is I'M
trammeled tradc, at home and abroad
now and foreyer.-These parties are 10
both nations composed of many able, en-
tlightcned, and powerful men. Their doc
trnes, 10 the glorious discoveries Of polit-
cal science which have illustrated the
nineteenth century, sustained by the most
gigantic ntelects of The age, BY Brough-