The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-17
POLITIC A L.
From the New York Evening Post
THE RESULT. ---

THE RESULT. .. ...
The liberal policy which has led several nations
Of the world TO unfetler their commerce with each
other almost at the same moment, Is producing
some remarkable effects. Commerce is becoming
what II ought TO be-a mutual communication OF
benefits; and commercial legislation is eeaslng to be
what II has almost always been--a struggle be
tween nations TO see which could do each other the
most mischief In this contest of reciprocal injury,
the blow aimed at others has always fallen with
more or less force on themselves. Men are now
learning better doctrine, and learning It in the
peasantest manner.
The Old World, for many years, has needed the
haryests of the new. The Old World has, AT
length, opened its ports, and our haryests are flow
ing IN; our fellow-men across the Atlantic are
chesply fed, and the American farmers are enrich
cd. There is occasion for eongratulaton on both
sides,
We copy from the commercial article of a WING
paper, a stubborn advocate Of the protective sys.
TEN, the Tribune, the following account Of the mat
ter; .,...
"rhe movement Of produce forward TO foreign
ports Is going very actively, and nearly every
description is improving In prices In this category
are hour, wheat, corn, rye, oats pork, beef lard
ashes, picked meats, meal rye -four, lead, &c. The
improvement in -four from the lowest point is near.
ly 10 cents; corn Is to II cents wheat TO 10
cents.
"By reference to our daily market reports il will
be seen that the purchases Of -four and grain have
been very large since the last steamer gave fresh
impetus To shipments, and that shippers have been
able TO pay much better prices. Within three days
not less than 10000 bushels wheat, corn, and rye
have been taken for export, about one-hAlf being
wheat. This state Of the market must be highly
gratifying to the western producers, the aggregate
Of such an advance has been experienced, caeu-
lated on the whole stock Of the country and on the
coming crops, making an immense amount"
At the same time the shipping Of the United
States, the finest and swhest vessels that float on
the ocean, actively employed. What is best for
the laborers Of the Old World and farmers Of the
new, is also best for our shp-owners The same
journal which We have quoted, says in the same
tice
"In freights there is considerable activity, the
quantity Of produce offering Tor shipment being
large. About $4,000 bushels grain have been en-
gagged for German ports at 10 20 cents per bushe
higher rates now asked, and TO Havre some -four
is going at 80 cents per barrel. The rate to LIVER
pool is %. Cd: sterling, and for grain 81 is ask.
ed. Cotton is nominally i'd. ID. To Havre,
cotton is cents. To London, -four is %. Sd;
grain 3D."
Some ofthe friends Of the tariff Of l642 were pre-
dieting, the other day. that the moment the British
corn laws were abrogated, the wheat of the Baltic
would be sent in and drive the importer Of Ameri-
can grain from the British market So far is this
from being true, that we are sending wheat 10 the
which open upon the Baltic. Flour, too, is going
forward to Liverpool and to London, notwithstsnd-
ing that 1t bearsa lower price in the English market
than it has done for several years.
IL may be said that the demand for our grain in
Europe is occasioned mainly by the failure Of the
potato crop. Weare not disposed TO deny that the
failure of the potato crop is of the which
have led to this state Of things II has compelled
the Kingdoms Of Europe TO open their ports 10 Amer
lean grain sooner than they would otherwise have
done. But if we can proftably ship our wheat TO
Great Britain as we are now doing, when the price
in the British markets is even lower than usual the
inference is inevitable that we have secured per-
manent and advantageous trade with Europe in
wheat, as long as her commercial regulations will
allow II to enter.
We hear that, in the western part Of this State,
remarkable change Of opinion in regard to the
protective system is going on. The people are well
pleased with the state of the wheat trade, and ac-
knowledge that the restrictions which have been
placed on it childish selfish, and Injurious the
welfare both Of the nations which impose them and
the nations whose productions are excluded by
them. If free trade is mutually beneficial in tina,
instance, they have the sagacity to see that the
principle which makes it extends TO all other in
stances.