The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-05-02

gar growing regioh and, therefore, identified with that
portion of Louisiana engaged in the same culture
will unite in supporting the great principle Of extending
full and adequate protection to American products and
industry, Sugar is crop which must always look to
the home market for the sures sale and most certain
turn. We shall, thus, gain in the souh-westa power
fuaccesson ofstrenglh upon that great question, which
so deeply involves the interests Of your district can
ddy believe that it will not be long before majority OF
the people of the SOUTH when their labor is thus diver
ted into different channels will become convinced of the
sound policy Of protesting and fostering American in
dusry. This winot only be important and decisive in
favor of such policy but, will be eminenty calculated
10 harmonize and peTpedate institutions result 10
be hailed with gadnessby every patriotic heart am no
advocate for slavery would see introduced into one
region unless were at the same time assured that il
would withdraw it from another &that without ncreas
ing in the aggregate Theannexa ton of Texasmust
soon be followed by the voluntary abolition of The ins
tuition of slavery in neighboring States Va Mary
land and Delaware, and also indeed in Kentucky and
Missouri. We can all truly rejoice in its withdrawal
from our immediate vicinity. l am satisfied that the
best interests OF that class of our fellow beings original
brought TO- and forced these States by British ra
pacy and injustice, and who must alwaysb be marked
and distinct race, as long they abide among our own
people, will be best consultedb securing the only out
e the only hope which has presented ITSELF of their
acquiring an independent home or attaining position
elevated and equal to the people amidst whom they
dwell Such refuge is offered beyond the Rio Bravo
among the Mexican and South American nations who
have no prejudice asto cast or color.
The treaty is now with the Senate to be confirmed or
rejected You, as part Of the great American family,
are called upon to consider how it affects your own i'm
mediate interests as well those of the nation TO which
you belong.
The inhabitants Of Allegheny county are mineing
manufacturing commercial, agricultural and haviga-
ting people Every interest of those several branches
OF industry will be vastly promoted by securing 10 US,
under our present tariff thus extended by annexation
yer all its territory the entire markets OF Texas The
navigation of Red river Of the chief tributaries OF
the Mississippi furnishing thousand miles ofnavi-
CATION into the hearof rich country, now dividend
and common right will then be exclusively our own
that add the important Give the Trinity, Brazos, Col
orado, Rio Bravo del Nore, and many other smaller
but navigable streams, and we behold the vast demand
from that region on the boat builders and mechanics OF
the Ohio valley, adding at least one hundred steamboats,
large and small yearly to the many now built for the
wants of Western navigation,
Our boats which will benefit by the great carrying
trade between Texas and her sister States will in return
for our manufactures of iron cotton wool hemp and
glass; and the products the farms and orestsl carried
here receive and bring back her cotton and sugar her
rice and indigo aud probably even her coffee and other
'tropical products. -, $50; ~ ,. Y ,,"r t.
The Santa Fe trade, which has already becomsso u.
crative many among you would be cut off from usby
Ia foreign; and by ne MEANS necessarily, friendly pow
Fer whose territories intervene between us and tharegon
if the treaty Shond tt 10 re r.fed Manchester wa
gons, and Harey's strong harness will no longer serve
to CARRY American domestics and Pittsburgh wares
cross the prare to be converted at Santa Fe into bull
iion and Mexican dollars. r,.r ,-
On the other hand with our territories bordering on
New Mexico, this trade would soon be vastly inrrea
sed for a Pittsburgh steamboat with cargo on board
can ascend the Red liver to point less than three hun
dred milesremote from Santa Fe the present mark al
which our traders meet those from the region of Chihua
hua
To the entire people of the United States this question
is of vast and weighy moment If the treaty for the
annexation should now be rejected the reaction Of feel
| ing in Texas must then inevitably render it CONNER
cal dependency in fact il not in name of Great Bri-
tain You may rest assured that even should free
trade treaty. not be concluded between England and Tex
as that the latter will SO modify and relax her tariff by
discriminating duties augmenting the imposts upon
-four grain beef pork lard and sucharcles whilst ta-
king off those ON iron and all its manufactures glass;
cotton and wooden fabrics and similar articles thereby
excluding American products, and admitting Englands
free OF duty Such is the avowed policy of Texas as
seperate Republic and thus even without treaty with
England Sthat country will monopoGze her markets.
But it win not end here Texas, like Gibraat and Por
tugal to Spain, will be made the great enepot and chan
mel OF British commerce, by reais owhch her active
merchants will in defiance of all imposts and tariffs
not only flood the interior of Mexico with British
but through the channels of the Trinity, Sabine, and
Red rivers, gut puruwn country wiha multiplicity oil
every kind of her extensive manufactures breaking up
our very best establishments, and carrying ruin and
bankruptcy into every manufacturing district Of the u
nited States. ~ =! "s 80 f'' -
The Imports which we must receive from abroad, in
stead ofbefng brought as they now are, chiefly in A
merican vessels into our ports will escape the duties
be carried to Texas, obe sdusgedn INTO the U. States
This will impair if not destroy great navigating in
erests on the high seas which it has always been the
policy of our government to foster. This was clearly