The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-07

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II our exports TO Texas had augmented from 1889
TO lSa3. az hey had done from 1887 to 1879. and az
they must have done with her great Increase OF
business ana population, but tor her being placed
towards US, In the mean time, In the attitude Of a
foreign state, they would have amounted in l84S to
$50, 047 900, cad of 600 such has been the
by her recognition by other na,ioDs, and CONNER
cial treaties with them, since 1880 But great az
were our exports TO Texas in 1889 hey were by no
means so large if she had then been State OF tho
Union Tor che then had, and still mas, in force a
tariff on imports, varying on most articles from 10
TO 90 per cent, which must have prohibited some
of our exports there, and diminished Otaers. Our
tanff. also, did not embrace Texas, and secure to
our manufactures almost monopoly IL her supply.
Had all these causes combined, Us they would have
done, had Texas been State OF the Union. our ex-
ports there If domestic articles must have reached,
in ls43, 81, l64 $780, ~ | shall proceed to demon
strate:
The products Of Louisiana, by the census OF 1870,
were $35 044 $50, Of which there was, sugar and
cotton. SIS t76 1888; and Of ths there Of sugar,
81 1871 9s; OF which sugar, il we deduct $476 7Sa.
rs consumed in The State, being more than double
her proportionate consumption, il would leave 3d.
600 600 of products raised and exported nv Louisia
IN 1910, when her population 352 All and
Texas, producing now ln the same proportion to
her lrrsent population Of 200 900, would produce
$40 1856 800 and OF exports for sale beyond her IL
mi!-, $s 522 724 and deductins from this 81 25s.-
purchase OF foreign products tor her use, would
leave 81 lGi l39 Of the products OF Texas used il
The purchase OF articles from other States OF the
Union But if reaBpexed to the Union, in ten years
thereafter, how much would she purchase Of The
products Of other Stat g Of the Uoion9 five allow
Texas 10 increase in the same ratio to the square
succeeding the purchase from 1910 to 1870. the Pop
ulation, in ten years, occupying the 3l6 ono square
miles OF Texas, would exceed two millions; and
the increase in many States has been much more
rapid. But estimated at two millions, Texas would
then. according TO the above proportion. consume
ST.. Sal 800 per annum of the products of other
States. which consumption would be rapidly lncrea-
wosd which, s would Se
greatly and constantly sugmentng. Such is tho
wealth we are about casing from us. and the home
market we are asked to abandon; for when we see
that, by the failure OF remuneration, our domestic
exports in 1913. to Texas, had fallen 10 Sl40 30;
and his multiplied by ten, would i've the cOnsump-
ton, at the end OF ten years, OF our Pf0duc's BY
Texas 81 4O3 200, il makes an annual loss OF mar
ket for our products to the amount OF $40 2SS 1870;
and the loss would be greater, II Texas then, az q
foreign State, consumed Of exportsin proportion
to their consumption by the rest Of the world, which
600, and make our loss $7l. All $50 per anuum; and
II we add to this the oss OF revenue from the de-
ties imports and the loss Of the proceeds ri The
sales Of her public lands, estimated al size lS9 49,
tonaI loss by the rejection Of Texas must be esti-
mated by hundreds Of millions Nor isit the trade
OF Texas only that would be lost but that Of Santa
Fe, and all the northern States OF Mexico, which
with the possession by us OF Texas and the Del
Norte, would become consumers OF immense
amounts OF our manufactures and other products,
and would pay Us TO great extent in silver, which
is their great staple. Texas, also, has valuable
mines of gold and silver, and this also would be one
CT her great exports, with which che would purchase
our prodncts aad thus, by her specie Infused into
our circulation, render our currency more secure,
and subject us 10 less danger OF being drained to too
great an extent Of gold and silver. Our exports OF
domestic products bv the treasury report o, 1910,
amounted to Sl03 533 s96 deducrg witch fom
our whole products by the census # 1910 would
leave $3.50 600 si5 Of our own rrodn ;is. consumed
that year by'nur population oi IL O62 453 and
the consumption Of our domestic products. (SlO3.-
53j $50 by the population OF the world, 900 ono
600 would make average consumption II $50
10 value oil orr products consumed by each oue Of
cur own people, and eleven cents il value Of our
products consumed on the average hy each person
beyond our mi and thus. tsppears that one per-
son within limits con iulles much ~ cur own
products as sos pcrscDa beyond ous lInits; thus pro-
wing The wonderful ference, rs regards the con-
sumption Of the products % the Union, between
Texas and u al time 70 come, "a foreign
couairy, OF as part OF The Union When we re-
fleet, ALSO that ia products OF Texas are chiefly OF
those articles among the lev which ind a market
abroad il furnishes her with The purchase,
with TIE proceeds Of thoee EXPORTS the surplus pre-
ducts OF other States, which do not Irotuce these
exports aud therefore, the accession Of such
country to the Union s vastly m~,e important TO Tbs
great manufo ciarlng interest than { Texas did not
raise such ,x)orts but became nval producer OF
our own domestic manufactures. Hence II must
be obvious, independent OF the proolhere exhibited,
that the New England States, the middle and north
from the reanne Ration OF Texs. Pennsylvania
standing first, and then Massachusetts and New
York ; and Of the Cities Pitlsburg, Cincinnati, and
New Orleans, Boston, New York, Baltimore, and
Ix.l-
est advantage, in proportion to her population, un-
doubtedy,will be PttsbuIg, rot only from the won
deriul extent and variety Of her manufactures, but
also from her position; The same steamboat con-
st,ucted by her skiful workmcn, which starts from
Pittsburg at the head # the Ohio, reighted with
her manufactures, can ascend the Red river tor ma
ny hundreds miles, into one OF the most fertile re-
gions of Texas, and return TO the iron city with a
CARO- of cotton there TO be manufactured for salo
in Texas and other sections OF the Union. The
steamboats, of Piitsburg, also can descend the Mis-
sssipp the gull and, coasthg along It's shores to
Galveston, Mstagorda, and the other ports Of Texas,
there dispose OF their cargoes Of minuf acures. and
bring back the cotton and sugar Of Texas, and also
the gold and silver, which will be furnished by her
I'd with sufr tent skill and capital. Pittsburg is
great western city; and whether she shall soon be
the greatest manufacturing city OF the world, de-
ponds upon the markets oil the west, and especially
alone be secured by reanne Ration, and, without i,
must be lost forever. And ehal Pitsburg compa ain
that new states are TO be added in the West Why,
the new States of the West have made Ptsburg all
that she is, and all that she ever will be and each
addition to their number will only still more rapidly
augment her markets, her business her wealth, and
population. Nor can Pittsburg advance without the
correspondent Improvement OF Philadephia, ana o.
all The great interior Of Pennsylvania, throughout
the whole line Of Internal communication that binds
together the two great cities Of the Keystone State.
While il is true that New Engiand, and the middle
and northwestern States, will derive the greatest
TCortiap,d on the SiIfh Pu2s1