The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-21

Forrlgm Correspondence.
Bn.nrs. 2sth Of January, 1912.


treat sensation in this place You well know uia'
p,smo, i that German port which has more COM
and more extended commeree ""
America than any other, ana VINE" '''f'
,h.n n;ns,y vessels exclusively in that commerce. a
great number of American securities are heiu hei'
and in Hamburg, partly for Hanseauc account Pa'u,
ON account of people living in the interior or III inc
sou,hern provinces of Germany. The news from
Mississippi has been thunderclap for our merchants
and capitalists that from Pennsylvania on the other
hand has proved an oasis in the desert There are
goodly number of Pennsyl yania Elves held IN tiiis
place, and il that State is able TO pay the interest,"
due in 1872 without resorting to direct taNa'on'
or the infinitely worse method OF making nc"
loans TO nav the interest the old debt, IL WIZ 90
much to revive the deeply sunken credit oil the o'ae'
The United States Bank never enjoyed much cre''
in Germany since the first protest Of the Hotinsers
in Paris. and Rothschild would not then have come
forward 40 literally and accepted for the honor OF
tho Rank had not MIR. Jaudon, in London, covered
the amount or rather than double It, by railroad
and State securities. Thus the credi' Oh INC Dam,
which was first based on the credit OF the un'ed
States was now maintained on the faith ana creo' VI
the individual States, but Tire enormous amouh' oi
state stocks which il threw on the European markets.
naturally caused the decline OF them Slili 'here
exists great faith in the ability of those States 10 re-
deem their pledges and in the honest Willingness Oh
the American People to discharge their just ooiiga-
TONS President Tyler's message produced very
rood effect althoughit is clear that Congress posses
s.s M COMPULSORY power over the States, and Will
NOT and ought not to assume and consolidate the debt
of the States.
am sorry to say that the American commerce
with this place which was formerly carried on most
Nv in American vessels is almost entirely comm
ed to Hanseatic bottoms; not more than from 70 10 ~
vessels of the United States entering this port per
annum and than one half OF these leaving IL again
in ballast But the treaty between the United States
and the Hanseatic towns Of Hamburg Lubbock, ana
Bremen, which was concluded i'll 1927 and expired In
1899, being still in force, it is impossible for Amerl-
can vessels to compete with the ships of the Hanse-
towns. Provisions in Germany from so to 60 per
cent cheaper than in the United States; the expens-
es of building and sailing ships are BY 81 per cent
less wages are lower-in short on the principle OF
reciprocity the United States must be content 70
export their tobacco, rice, and cotton, IN Bremen
vessels to all the northern continental ports OF Eu-
rope. and to receive the manufactures and produce
of the northern nations of Europe in vessels sailing
under the same agfor not only is the direct trade
with Germany almost wholly carried on in Hanseatlc
bottoms, but also the carrying trade between Ger
many, Prussia, Russia, and in great proportion,
also Sweden, Norway, and Denmark This cannot
be matter of Indifference to the United States, and
deserves the attention of Congress
But this is not all. There are annually going to
the United States from this port alone from twelve
10 sixteen thousand emigrants who pay for their pas
sage not less than S400000 the passengers returning
nrobaby amount to one fifth of this number, SO that
their passage money may be estimated at Sl0O,OO0,
exclusive Of freights The whole of this sum IS
earned by Hanseatic ship owners, who have thel
ao-'--
gulary long before they to this port The autho-
ties here even prohibit the emgrants coming here be-
fore they have engaged and paid for their passage be-
cause thew want to make sure Of not being troubled
by paupers. In what state these emigrants after
wards arrive in the United States whether by their
restitution they become at once public burden to
our large Atlantic cities is matter OF less socitude
here but Of great moment in the United States. AS
matters are now arranged throughout Europe, the
whole business of emigration is in the hands of
thoritics OF private individuals who have further
interest in the welfare of the emigrans than that OF
getting them safely out Of the country; what becomes
of them afterwards, whether he proves advantage
or disadvantage to the country OF his adoption,
whether he possesses the means OF pursuing his Jour-
ney westward after his landing in New York, Phila-
dephia or Baltimore, all this does not concern them
in the least and yet the United States, who are so
deeply concerned in this question, who to bear
the consequences of their arriving in state Of pow
erty and Distress and the other hand, gain by the
wealth and industry of these people, have not taken
one single step to watch their embarkaton for, and
arrival in, America. The American Consuls at the
different sea-ports, who might advise and counsel and
protect the emgrants, who might be the means Of
direct communication between the American land
and the European capitalists and thereby pre-
vent much disappointment and much loss of time and
money, are absolutely left poweress, and must re-
main calm spectators when these future citizens of
the United States are eeced of their penny, sent
to America by the way Of Texas or the West Indies
Whole cargoes of Germans were, last year, sent to
Trinidad de Cuba and other ports of the West Indies,
to meet untimely grave, when their industry and
property might have enriched the valley Of the Mis-
sissppi While the industrious, honest, moneyed emf
grant is thus deprived of the means of making him
self useful to his new country, or prevented from
ever reaching the desired port paupers and maefac-
tors may find their way thither and poison the morals
and habits of the People of the United States. do
not believe that the latter applied to the Ger
man emigrants, with the exception of those whom
the Duke of Mecklenburg sent to America-princi-
pay to Bresil-and who, as is well known, were ta-
Of
that the United States of the States north of
the Potomac require many dollars per head for all
emigrants landing within their respective territory
This tax only diminshe. the profit of the ship own
and Captains, and lessons the of the emf
grants without guarding against the evils contem-
plated by the Legislatures Of those States. Other