The North-Carolina standard., 1844-05-01


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LETTER OF MIR. WALKER,
MISSISSIPPI,
Relative to the annexation of Texas in reply to the call
of the people of Carroll county, Kentucky, to commu-
nicate his views that subject.
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Let us now examine the effect of the reanuexa-
ton of Texas on the whole country. The great
interests of the Union, as exhibited in the census
of 1910, are shown in the products of agriculture
of the mines and manufactures. of the forest and
fisheries of commerce and navigation. hereto
append tables marked Nos. 2 and 3, compiled
from the census of 1910, the first exhibiting the
products that year of agriculture, manufactures
commerce, mining, the forest and fisheries; and
the second showing the number of persons then
employed in agriculture, manufactures, commerce,
mining, navigating the ocean, and internal naViga-
ton. | have also compiled from the official re-
port of the Secretary of the Treasury in 1910,
a table marked No a, representing for the year
preceding, for each State, the imports and exports
of eacn, distinguishing the domestic from the
foreign exports; also the number of American
vessels which entered or cleared from each State
the American crews employed; the foreign YES
sells which entered and cleared from each State :;
by each Table No. 5, compiled from the same
report exhibits, for the same year, our exports to
each of the countries of the world, Distinguishing
the foreign and domestic exports, with the num-
Der of American vessels and foreign vessels en-
pIoyed in our trade with each country, together
with The imports from each, and the excess in our
trade with any of them, of exports to overimpors
from them. Table No. 6, compiled from the
same report, presents all the exports Of our own
products that year to Texas, ranged under the
heads of the products ofagriculture, manufactures
forest and fisheries distinguishing the articles thus
exported, and their value With these facts be-
fore Us, which all official, let US proceed to
the examination of this great question Our chief
agricultural exports to Texas, rs the table shows,
were pork, ham, bacon, lard beef, butter, cheese,
-four, bread, and bread stuff amounting to $685.
GAL. In looking at the census of 1840, the po-
pulation of each State and section. and the amount
of these products in each State, we will find that
the chief surplus of these products raised for sale
beyond their limits, were In the middle States,
composed of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Delaware, and Maryland, including the
District of Columbia; and in the northwestern
States, composed of Missouri, kentucky, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. including also
Wisconsin and Iowa. The middle and north
western States derived, then, the principal profit
in the sale of agricultural products TO Texas. In
the sale of domestic manufactures to Texas the
New Eng land States came first; and next in their
order, the middle, and the northwestern States
and in locking at the principal items Of which
these exported manufactures to Texas CON-
posed find that of the surplus produced and sold to
Texas, Massachusetts stood first and Pennsylvania
second Next as to commerce, as connected with
Texas, the middle States stood first and then the
New Eng land and northwestern States and here
New York stood first Massachusetts second, and
next Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Ohio. But
here We must remark the special interest which
Louisiana, through her great port of New Or
leans has in commerce as connected with Texas.
The total products from commerce in Louisiana
IN l840 were 81, 1858 1898, being one-tenth of that
OF the whole Union, and consequently the inter-
ests OF New Orleans, as connected with the re-
annexation of Texas must soon be measured by
millions every year. The great city of New
ork, into which was received, in round numbers
one hundred millions of the one hundred and
fortythree millions of all our imports in the year
referred to, and onethird of the exports, has
vast and transcendent interest in this question
for is, in truth, question to be settled in our
favor by the remuneration of Texas, whether
New York or Liverpool shall command her
commerce. Next as to the products of mining,
the middle States stand first and next the North
western and New England States. And here,
pennsylvania stands at the head of the list having
Sl7,666,l46, or nearly onehalf of the whole
mining interest of the Union. Texas, having no
mines of coal or iron, must become vast con-
Sumer of the products of the mines of Pennsyi-
vana. In cables, bar-iron, and nails, and other
manufactures of our iron, Texas imported from
u.s. in the year referred to the value Of S12O, 1874
Now, of eastiron, Pennsylvania produced, in
io4o, 9S,395 tons, being largely more than one
third of the amount produced in the whole Union +;
and came 0hio lv New Vorl1 V;r-
gnia, Tennessee, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
and Maryland Ofbar-iron, the amount produced
IN Pennsylvania was 1924 tons, being very
nearly one-half of the whole produced the
Union; and next came New York, with So, ,693
tons, or more than one-fourth of the whole; and
then Tennessee, Maryland, Ohio, New jersey
massachusetts,, Virginia, Kentucky, and Connec-
lieut. As connected with her vast interest in iron
must be considered also the coal in Pennsylvania
not only as an article of sale abroad, but as con-
Suned at home, in producing her iron; the num-