Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-05-28

If our exports 10 Texas had augmented from 1889 10
sI3 rs thew had done from 1887 to 1892 and as they
mus, have done with her great increase OF business and
population, but for her being placed towards u.s. III the
mean timc in the attitude Of foreign State they would
have amounted in ls43 10 So 047 600 instead Of 1907
600. Such has been the immense reduction IN our en-
ports 10 Texas created By her recognition ~ Other ma
lions and commercial treaties with them, since lc39
But great our exports to Texas IN 1852 they
were BY 10 means large IS il she had then oeen
State of the Unon for she then had and SIN mas IN
force tariff on imports, varying on most articles IRON
10 10 30 per cent, which must have prohibited some
of our exports there and diminished others Our taril
also did not embrace Texas, and secure to our manu-
features almost monopoly in her supply Had an
these causes combined as they would have done, had
Texas been State of the Union, exports there ct
domestic articles must have reached, IN 1919, Sni1i,
l39 as shall proceed 10 demonstrate:
The nroducl- of LOUISIANA by the census oil lS40,
were $50 O44 go of which there IN sugar and cot
ton 476 49, and Of this there was oil sugar, "a,
7g7 COS; of which sugar, if we deduct Sl1b,Ie3, rs
consumed in the State, being more Than couoL'
her proportionate consumption, it would leave $40,
600 600 of products raised and exported by Lous;-
ana in 1910, when her population was 3o2,4ll; and
Texas producing now in the same proportion TO her
prcsen, population of 100000, would produce
300 and Of exports for sale teyond her limits, S,2,
ri and deducling from this 81 ,25S go, the proper
ton Of her products employed III the purchase of in
reicn products for her use, would leave S7,l61 l1o
of The products of Texas used in the purchase Of art
cles from other States OF The Union. But If r'annex-
ed to the Union, in ten years thereafter, now
mach would she purchase OF the products Of 9th
or States Of the Union 1T allow Texas to IN
crease in the ratio 10 the square mile us the
State of Louisiana after the first census succeeding The
purchase from 1910 to 1920, the population, IN ten
wears. Occupying the $4,000 square miles Of Texas
would exceed two millions; and the increase IN many
a,es has been much rnpid. But estimated al
two millions, Texas would then according To the above
propot on consume 81 Ga 300 per annum of the pro-
ducts Of other States winch consumption would be ra-
pidly increasing every year and her annual products
then would be Sl95 s63, 600; which, also, would be
greatly ard constantly augmentlng. SuchIs the wealth
we are about to cast from u.s. and the home market we
are asked 10 abandon; for when We see thai, by the
failure Of re Ration, dome site exports IN loa3
to Texas had fallen 10 $40 800; and this, multiplied
by ten would give the consumption at the end oil ten
wears of our products by Texas 81 403 200, makes
annual loss of market for our products 10 the amount
of SO 3S 90 aud the loss would be greater, IT Texas
then as foreign State, consumed OF our exports IN
TO their consumption by the rest OF The world
which would reduce her purchase OF our products To
$3.50 600, and make our loss ST. ,3JO per annnm;
and if we add 10 this the loss OF revenue from The dn-
ties on imports, and The loss of the proceeds Of the
sales of her public lands, estimated at $40,
which would all be ours by reannexatoD the national
loss nv the rejection of Texas, must be estimated BY
hundreds of millions Nor is 1t the trade OF leAas only
Nor,hern States of Mexico which, with the possession
he us Of Texas and tie Del Norte, would become con-
sumers of immense amounts oil cur manufactures and
oher products, and would pay us to great extent in
silver which is their great staple Texas also has va
liable mines Of gold and silver, and this also would DC
ore of her great exports, with which she would pur
chase cur products and thus by her specie infused into
our circulation render currency more secure. and
subject us less danger of being drained to too great
extent Of gold and silver. Our exports Of domestic
products BY the Treasury report of 1910, amounted 10
Sl03, j33 s96 deducting which from our whole pro-
ducts by the census Of $780, would leave 1888 GOO SIS
of our own products, consumed hht year by our own
population CT 1862 i53, and the consumption of our
domestic products, (Sl03 $50, $685. by the population
of The world (900000,000,) would make an average
consumption Of $50 in value Of our products con-
sumed by each of people and elerea
cents in value Of products consumed the average
by each person beyond our limits; and thus II appears
that one person within limits consumes as much
of our own product. 500 persons beyond our limits;
thus proving the wonderful difference Us regards the
consumption of the products of the Union. between
Texas and in all time TO come, as foreign coun-
try or part of The Union When we reflect, also,
that the products Of Texas chiefly of those articles
among the few which find market abroad 1t furnish
with the to purchase with the proceeds oil
those exports, the surplus products OF other states
which do produce these exports and, therefore, Inc
accession Of such country to the Union is vastly more
Texas did not raise such EXPORTS but became rival
producer of our own domestic manufactures Hence
il must be obvious, independent of the proof here
exhibited, that the New England States, the middle
and northwestern States, would derive the principal
profit from the reannexa;on of Texas. Pennsy lvania
standing first, and then Massachusetts and New York
and of The cities, P,tsburg Cincinnati, and New Or
leans, Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia
The city which will derive the greatest advanlage, II
proportion her population, undoubtedly VIII De rus
burg not only from the wonderful extent and variety
of her manufactures but also from her position Th'
same steamboat constructed by her sk'ltul workmen
which starts from Prtsburg, at the head of the OHIO
freigh,ed with her manufactures, can ascend The Rel
river for many hundred miles into one of The mos
fertile regions of Texas and return to the iron cit
with cargo of cotton, there to be manufactured ma 10
.esmboa,s OF Pt,sburg, also, descend the Mlsss
p the gulf and s0s.n nb along ng o shores %. to Ga
dispose of their cargoes of manufactures, and br1
back the cotton and sugar Of Texas and also the go
and silver which will be furnished by her mines II
great abundance, whenever they are worked witt
Sufficient skill and capital P'tsburg is a gre.a
W,,tsru eitv; and whether she shall soon be tn
oreates, manufacturing city Of the world, depend