The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-09-25

tlls sum, according TO MIR, Gays calculation,
would defray all the expenses of the United
States government for mole than six years. The
amount of taxation thus reduced, every one can
perceive for himself. And yet great as is this
sum of money, it sinks into insignificance when
compared with the other permanent advantages
TO result from the annexation of Texas.
TEXAS WILL GIVE US A HOME MAR
KET.
The importance of Texas to the United States
as a home market, may be estimated from a fact
embraced in the report Of the Secretary of the
Treasury for 1910. That document testifes
that we sold to Texas, in 1889, domestic manu-
features and surplus produce, of the value of
one million three hundred and sixty-nine thou
sand dollars.-But i will appear strange to those
unfamiliar with its causes, thai, tn 1913, instead
of having greatly increased our sales TO Texas
in the four intervening years, they had diminish
ed more than one million of dollars. The Trea-
sury reports establish that, in lS43, our total ex-
ports to Texas amounted TO but one hundred
and ninety thousand six hundred and four dol
lars. And what is the cause Of this astonishing
decreased? The reason is plain Since 1899,
her revenue laws have become more stringent,
and the Republic of Texas has entered into com
mercial treaties with England and other Europe
an Governments, and now buys fiom them the
same articles of manufacture she formerly procu-
red from US; and in addition TO this, her tariff
law places a tax of about two dollars upon every
barrel of -four we send to Texas, which renders
it cheaper for the citizens of that country to pro-
duce their own breadsluffs than to purchase from
the United States. Is it asked, now will annex
alton better our condition in this respect? The
answer is evident. If Texas becomes a portion
of the United States, free trade will necessarily
exist between them. The Texans will receive
our flour and other produce, and our domestic
manufactures, without paying a tax upon them;
and, at the same time, we would receive her SUI
gar without paying a duty of two cents and a half
on every pound, as we now do, and would also
obtain, upon like terms, her molasses, cotton,
rice, tobacco, indigo, fruits, and, at no very flu
ture day, coffee also. Her commercial inter-
course with Europe would be, in a great measure,
abandoned, and the United States would monop-
ollze the entire trade of Texas.
Annex Texas to the Union, and her popula.
ton will increase with a rapidity unexamp!ed in
the history of nations,-even The p~eopling of our
own great State will not furnish a parallel; and
year for the next ten, our sales to that
country will augment at least one million of dol
lars. This IS as certain as any coming event,
and can be established to the satisfaction of ev-
cry u~nprejudiced mind.--All persons of intelli-
gence know that prices chiefly depend upon the.
demand. Open us a new market, and the val
ue of our wheat and other produce, and Of our
domestic manufactures, must rise forthwith.
off our trade with Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama and Tennessee, and what becomes of
the western farmer and eastern manufacturer?
AT a moderate calculation, the value of their pro-
auctions would be decreased one-sixth. Annex
Texas, and at no very distant day, that territory
will create as great a demand upon our farms
and manufactures as the States just named now
do. Reject her, and her ports will be forever
practically shut against our commerce, be-
cause she can make better ba ga MS elsewhere.
The impulse given TO business by the accom-
plishment of this measure, can scarcely be con-
Hon. William Wilkins, of Pitts
at present Secretary of War, states, in a
recent publication, that in his opinion, the an
~nexation Of Texas would CT cate an annual de-
mand for one hundred steamboats, more than
those at present required. Look at the noble
streams within the Republic, and then refec,
upon the almost uncomfortable impulse given
TO trade, and you will conclude with me that the
of the learned Judge is rather under
than over the true number.
IF NOT ANNEXED TO THE U. STATES,
TEXAS WILL FORM CONNECTIONS
WITH GREAT BRITAIN, AT WAR WITH
THE INTERESTS AND SAFETY OF
OUR UNION.
The willy diplomatisis of England have been
long engaged in efforts to secure the confidence
and friendship OF the Young Republic. They
have offered to loan her money, and make pre-
tensions 10 be her only true friends. British en-
have been sent there TO ALLEVIATE the
from The United States, and TO induce
them to take shelter under the flag of England.
Does any one doubt this? Let the past testify.
What did that naughty tyrant do when we
sought TO obtain our Just territory-the land
which now forms Alabama aud Mississippi?
Mr.. Clay answer:
HENRY CLAY SAYS THAT ENGLAND
SENT EMISSARIES TO INTERFERE IN
THE AFFAIRS OF THE u. STATES.
In Mr.. CIay's speech, delivered in the Senate,
December %, 1910, in referring to the danger
Of Great Britain seizing our territory, which now
Alabama and Mississippi. he proceeds TO
say; Isee Greely's Life and Speeches OF Mr..
vol. |, p. Ill
"Arc you prepared TO see n foreign W
seize what belongs to us9 have heard in the
credible manner that, about the period
when the President took his measures in rela-
lion TO that country, agents Of a foragn poper
England ,cere intriguing Nth Ms people there
10 induce them to come mpdcrh5 dominion"
Can any American inquire why Great Britain
desires 10 gain possession of Texas2 If there
be any such, | ask him why did England seize
upon her East Indis colonies2 Why has she
dor 0 violence TO tie feelings of united Christen-
dom, in bathing IN blood the streets Of the com.
emporium of China2 Why has she
hunted down, with ball and sword. the misero