Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-11-24

trade have heen against US for many years past
and have varied IN different years from FIVE mil
lions even up to sixty millions year The I'm
portatlon Of her manufactures has been received
by upon lltie moro than nominal duties, while
duties oppressive and prohIbitory have been ex
acted on our produce exported 10 her. Oar bread
siuffs prohibited, unless a sliding scale Of
! prices under her corn laws, and at rate merely
TO sive her people from famine. To cripple our
whale fisheries, her duty imposed on American
oil is E26 IL per ton against Is imported in her
own vessels. American whaebone is subj ed
TO duty Of t9o per ton, against n duty OF Ct
imported from her own colonies. Tobacco 10 lea A.
worth TO the producer from three to four cents
per pound is subjected 10 duty of three shl-
lIngs sterling, which is from eighteen hundred to
two thousand per cent. II the tobacco is stem.
med, then the duty is nine shillings sterling
which is five thousand per cent. Rice is subject
10 duty OF fifteen shings sterling per cwt
which is abou, two hundred per cent. II rice is
IN the rough, then the duty Is nominal; because
she secures The labor Of cleaning IT. This differ.
ence IN tho rate Of duty tobacco, and also up.
on rice. is upon the we'll known principle of Br
h'h legislation TO prohibit the labor of other coun.
tres, and hlso TO encourage and give employ men
to her shipping interest. A monopoly of the
carrying trade Of tho raw materials from other
Countries, and which she cannot produce, is thus
secured to herself; her shipping interest is sus-
tanned, and her seamen employ ed and trained.
These are few only of the many specimens Of
The free trade and reciprocity in commerce which
has tor some time past existed between England
and ourselves, sanctioned and conducted under
our late '.Judicious Tariff"
With France our commerce has been equally
disastrous. We have taken her wines, silks, and
gewgaws, duty free, and swelling the balance Of
trade against US TO great amount, to be paid in
specie. despatch from the American Minis
ter, General Cass, sufficiently illustrates this
trade. He says, "that two thirds of all the i'm
porta,ions introduced from France into the Un
ted States are free Of duty. Not one article i'm
ported into France from the Uuited States is
exempted from duty. The great American sta
pie, cotton, imported into France pays duty Of
between four and five per cent. upon its value
more than Egyptian cotton; thus far operating as
a bounty upon the latter. Upon silks, imported
into the United States from countries east Of the
Cape OF Good Hope. a duty Of ten per cent. is
levied. while French silks free OF duy-a
regulation which has driven the India and China
silks from the American markets, and which OPP
ora,oS hnnnty the Introduction Of
French and Enghsb silks" aud has overthrow
all efforts for the inroduc'ion Of the culture OF
silk into the United States. Again-"The his
tory Of modern trade scarcely exhibits an instance
OF greater inequality Than the commerc,ai inter
course which exists between the United
States and France" Oar commercial relations
with Germany, to their extent, equally Inju
rlous Time will not now permit us TO furnish
them in detail. The management Of the d. plo-
ma tic relations with Great Britain has been still
more destructive of the interests Of the nation
than the inequalities Of her duties exacied on
commerce. commercial arrangement be-
tween The two countries entered into ia 1880,
by which the West India trade was sacrihced.-
The important event was announced at "BaitI-
MORE I'd Of October 1880. 6 o'clock p. NJ
GLORIOUS news" "lnformaiinn has been re.
eived of The opening Of the Colonial ports the
10, Of III, n thaD 4 mfr Va.
vember, 1880, the British Parliamen,s in-
formed "America had entirely and uncondit,on'
ally withdrawn her pretentlons, and England now
stood upon the footing on which she legslated up
on the subject in 1925 The schedule OF duties
for protecting the Colonies entirely in their
own power, and nigh, be varied to suit the coun
try. The object Of the schedule to give an
encouragement to a supply Of the West India
Islands by the North American colonies of Great
Britain, instead of by the Unted States of Anne
RIGA, or by any other countryt'
The comparative truth of these two sta tement is
will sufficiently appear from the fact, that the
BRUSH tonnage entering the United States, in
tho commerce with the British American colonies,
suddenly rose from about four thousand up four
hundred thousand tons. The commerce of Que
bee has risen from near nothing TO 3l9 100 tons
10 1880 the British tonnage which entered gu,
ports, from all countries, amounted 10 S7,2Sl tons
In lS3., il had increased TO 500 ,922 ions-Iu
1880 the whole amount of foreign tonnage which
entered into our ports. amounted to 23l 900 tons
10 1910 il had increased 10 1925 tons. The
increase of British shipping TO ports since
1880 has raised the ratio nearly go per cent
Upon these astonishing facts. committee Of Con
gress remarks, "'The existence of such a trade
under such circumstances, is a remarkable com
mentary upon the want Of sagaci,y and foresight
in the administration Of commercial concerns
aud makes powerful appeal TO the consdera
ton of Congress. The enterprise of this couu
try is thus made subsidiary 10 the wealth, reve
nues ard navigation Of the British colonies, ant
in the same degree rejudicial TO our own, thro
the policy Of our Government" la this famou
commercial arrangement Of 1880, provisions ar,
con tanned in the nature of reciprocity treaty
/ $50 caleoO protesting to place the navigation an
commercial intercourse between the two coun
tries upon a condition OF equality and reciprocity
that is that neither country should make dis
or he him,