Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-06-07

markets IN all parts of the world. MOI lale
than Inst year. how mu II was spent for tina
purpose in a mission to4Chins and a naval ar
msmout "a the chinese sGas ! And, Sir, ii som
of the men who took a conspicuous part il
sending that mission were told BY Us yot
want new markets, come, we will establish
one thousand new sug plantations in Louis
lana and increase the cultivation Of those al
ready established; we will create an cutie
which viii require In the next ten years, II
addition 10 the present consumption Of tn.
state one thousand steam engines, tWcntl
thousand kettles, ali from Tennessee thret
hundred thousand horses and mules mtItiOni
Of barrels Of provisions, corn and coal, ant
Other things tnnumcrahIe; It viii be Tie best
market during peace, and war vii improve il
it viii take the produce which other nations
wOat have; il viii not require, as commerce
docs, the perpetual protection OF narIes, Tor
eiya mss o1s and cousalatGS, but it will re-
llice for the next ten years, a pro'eari0n not
81 great IN degree, considering the shorsHess
Of ta duration, but diGerenl in kjndI it will re-
IIirs lhltIhe fiscal regulations Of the country
remljn during that time wIthult any mIterlai
ch7uLe. hose men, Sir, would shrink from
oar proposed, 5(rom a most wicked anl dam
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r,,s,a of China. a4lhato. sailors t. have
court. ~ Justice proyIded for Them.
F,,o trtIa ls ar3J1 tlliag, Sir, bat outlets
arr r,,I i5jors Iol They stand first tn the
Lat If an, wants. b,clnse we must sell before
We cah ml.rhtac. The freedom of rraue like
other free lom has limits beyond which It coa.
a., :, ba h,nah,;aL Il would defeat it, OBJ
iarf. if il was permitted to interfere with the
paramount duty Of government, to enlarge by
all practicable means the purchasing power
of the productive classes. For the purpose
Of euIartjng that power, new outlets are &C.
cured abroad by cuuuest or by treaty, aud
those VIM resort TO tben are protected by
means OF em Jassies of cunsulates, of light.
houses and Of laval forces. For the same
pnrpaso, outlets are created at home for the
existing products, by the introduction VI new
branches of industry, and these must Tor a
time be protected against foreign competition
by reasonable duties.
The rraiu and provisions raised upon our
soil never ran have sufficient Quite s abroad /:
il is, therefore, the business Of statesmen TO
discover the new branches Of industry for
which The country il prepared, and 10 convert
them by judIciDus protection into nome mar
kers for those superintendent products,
Iha Western farmers who every year des.
cenl the Missies Dbl and lis tributaries to sell
us The surplus Of their crops, are on this sub
iart much in advance of your philosophers.
They produce a great deal more than they
consume, audthey have discovered that the
cheapest market for them to buy in, is, and ever
must be-, that which most increasc5 their pow
err to purchase. ! bought, not long since, from
one Of them, one thousand barrels of corn at
y cents per barrel, aud he took in part pay
for a vcar's supply of his family, three hun
bred pounds Of sugar at six cents. Hc firmly
believed that but for the Tariff; he might
have obtained the sugar, two cents and a half
per pound cheaper from Cuba though when
asked how he accounted FOR the fact that much
sugar had been sold here last winter at 81
and D cents, he admitted himselfto be in
what he termed, a regular quIndarg; but that
he said was imrHaterial, for he was aware also
th1t the s]paniard would not have his corn,
and that he could not compel me to grow corn
without losing at least one third of his pur-
chasing " 50 that giving him the full
benefit of the absolute free trade doctrines.
his account would stand thus two cents and
a halt, apound gained OH three hundred sounds
OF sugar twenty four cents a barrel lost up
on one thousand barrels ~ofcorn. That man
will never do me harm he understands our
position. Let not these be called an
li-democratic doctrines they must be de
M cratic because they are true. | say that
he intelligent protection Of new products,
promotes the general welfare, and admit the
aXpediency of limiting that protection by The
necessities of the Treasury; | assert with
jefferson, that foreign producers have the
and the power to prevent the Introduction
IF new branches of industry, in our country,
md that they must not be permitted to do SO.
maintain with Gen. jackson that a horizontal
arrtF is not iudicious tariff. Those men and
heir doctrines are sufficiently democratic for
ne.
If were asked what certainty there is
in ten years we will be able to compete |
with foreign producers, nv first answer would |
le that after that time we must do so, wheth-
IF We can or not. Let no act of government
;heck the impulse now given to the c%ultiya-
ion of the cane, and in ten wears, more SUGAR
viii be made than the United States can con |
when this happeng. the surplus will
ave 10 meet ~foreirn sugars in the general
of the world: the fiscal reo9Iations |
then affect that stanle "a thew n1w > fart
cotton and rice, and revenue will have to he
aisel upon tea and coffee. Bun. Sir. I do not
hesitate to assert that we can be prepaled TO
set the foreign producers.
There is a strong analoyv betwean the
cultivation of the vine in middle France. and
hat of the cane in Louisiana. DURING the