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

ls4l so8,296
" 1912 4O6, ,92o
q" 1843 I9O,604
IF our exports to Texas had augmented from
1889 to S43, they had done from 1887 to 1889,
and as they must have done with her great in
crease of business and population, but for her be-
ing placed towards US, in the mean time in the at
titude of foreign state, they would have amount
ed, in 1843, to $3,047 900, instead of $4,000.
Such has been the immense reduction in our ex-
ports to Texas, created by her recognition by 9TH
er nations, and commercial treaties with them,
since 1889 But great as were our exports to
Texas in 1889, they were by no means so large
as if she had then been State of the Union for
she then had and still has, IN force tariff on i'm
ports, varying on most articles from 0 to so per
cent, which must have prohibited some of our ex-
ports there, and diminished others Our tariff,
also, did not embrace Texas, and secure to our
manufactures almost monopoly in her supply
Had all these causes combined, as they would
have done, had Texas been State of the Union,
our exports there of domestic articles must have
reached in l843, 81, ,l64, l39, as shall proceed
to demonstrate:
The products of louisiana, by the census of
1910, were S35, ,044959. of which there was in
sugar and cotton, l5,476,783; and of this, there
was of sugar, S4,797, ,908; of which sugar, if we
deduct SAG, ,783, as consumed in the State being
more than double her proportionate consumption,
it would leave $15,000,00O of products raised and
exported by Louisiana in 1910, when her popula-
ton was 352,4ll; and Texas producing now in
the same proportion to her present population of
100000, would produce S19, 1856, 800, and of ex-
ports for sale beyond her limits $9, ,522 724; and
deductng from this 81 ,25S S585, the proportion of
her products employed in the purchase of foreign
products for her use, would leave 81, I64.I3o OF
the products of Texas used in the purchase of ar
tices from other States of the Union. But if re-
annexed to the Union, IN ten years thereafter,
how much would she purchase of the products Of
other States Of the Union2 If we allow Texas
to increase in the ratio to the square mile as
the State of Louisiana after the first census sue
ceeding the purchase from 1910 to 1920, the popu-
Iaton, in ten years, occupying the $4,000 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 10 the above proportion
consume 81 Gal 800 per annum of the products
of other States, which consumption would be ra-
pdly increasing every year and her annual pro-
ducts then would be Sl98, ,863, 600; which, also
would be greatly and constantly augmentng
Such is the wealth are about to cast from u.s.
and the home market we are asked to abandon;
for when we see that, by the failure of reannexa-
ton, our domestic exports in 1643, to Texas, had
fallen to Sl4032O; and this, multiplied bv ten
would give the consumption, at the end of ten
years, OF our products by Texas, 81, ,4O3 200, it
makes an annual loss of market for our pro-
ducts to the amount Of S70239, 100; and the loss
would be greater, if Texas then, as a foreign
State, consumed of our exports in proportion to
their consumption by the rest of the world, which
would reduce her purchase Of our products to
$3.50 900, and make our loss 81 |, All 800 per
annum; and if we add to this the loss of revenue
from the duties on imports, and the loss of the
proceeds of the sales of her public lands estimat
ed at Sl7O,139, I5S, which would all be ours by
remuneration, the national loss, by the rejection Of
Texas, must be estimated by hundreds of millions
Nor is it 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 manuac-
lures and other products, and would pay us to a
great extent in silver, which is their great staple
Texas, also, has valuable mines of gold and silver
and this also would be one of her great exports
with which she would purchase our products
and thus, by her specie infused into our crcula
ton, render our currency more secure and sub
ect to less danger of being drained to too great
an extent of gold and silver. Our exports of do
mestc products by the treasury report of 184O,
amounted to Sl05, ,533, 1876, deductng which from
our whole products by the census of 184O, would
leave S959, ,6O0,8 845 of our own products, eonsum-
ed that year by our own population of 1902
453; and the consumption of our domestic pro-
ducts, (S1O3, ,533, 1861 by the population of the
world, {9O0,0OO,0 ,000) would make an average
consumption of $50 in value of our products con-
sumed by each one of our people, and eleoen cents
| in value of our products consumed on the aver
age by each person beyond our limits: and thus,
it appears that person within our limits con-
sumes as much of our own products as 500 per-
sons beyond our limits; thus proving the wonder
| ful difference, as regards the consumption of the
products of the Union, between Texas now and
in all time to come, as a foreign country, or as
part of the Union. When we reflect also, that
the products of Texas are chiefly of those articles
among the few which find market abroad, ii
furnishes her with the means to purchase, with
the proceeds of those exports the surplus products
of other States, which do not produce these ex-
ports; and therefore: the accession of such coun
try to the Union is vastly more important to the
great manufacturing interest than if Texas did not
raise such exports, but because rival producer of
our own domestic manufactures. Hence it must
be obvious, Independent of the proof here exhibit
ed, that the New England States, the middle and
northwestern States, would derive the principal
| profit from the remuneration of Texas: Penn
syvania standing first, and then Massachusetts, and
/ New York and of the cities, Pittsburg, Cipcin,