Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-09-02
From the Democratic Review.
PRACTICAL ANNEXATION OF ENGLAND.
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There can be no trade, either internal
or external in any country, which is not
based on an interchange of the produce
OF industry. In the north of Europe,
where the people are not sufficiently re
fined to use wheat as an article OF food,
their wants in all respects are circumscri-
bed, and they do not require, in exchange
for the wheat they raise exclusively as an
article of export, those articles of British
manufacture which constitute the means
Of England to pay for food, and which are
OF first necessity to the weli-being of the
American agrlcultursts, the rehnements
and attachments of whose families are su-
perlor to many OF the rural lords in Eu-
rope. 1t is this community Of interests
between the Anglo-SaXons of England and
those Of the United States. that under a
free system, will ensure to the latter the
supply of all the grain OF which ENGLAND
may be deficient, and the interchange of
commodities reduces the cost Of transpor-
tation. If a vessel leaves the port of
New York with grain, she charges 3D.
sterling or IS cts. per busheI freight, and
she cannot carry less, because she is al
most sure to come back empty, and that
Is cents covers the expense OF two passa-
ges. If she had return cargo, the same
profit would accrue from 9 cents freigh on
"A bushel OF grain oui, which item alone
would reduce the cost of the wheat deli
vered in England 3s. Cd. per quarter
The want OF this inercommunioR is the
great source of distress at this moment
both in England aud the States. The
chief products Of the former are manu-.
features, and of the latter, agricultural pro.
duce. In both countries there is an over.
production Of the staples Of each, gut of
markets and a most unparalleled depres-
sion in prices; while IN each country there
is great want OF the surplus products of
the other. Manufactured goods we're never
so abundant or 50 low as in England, and
produce, particularly wheat and white
flour, scarcely ever presented in any coun-
try such Quantities for SO little money, as
Is now the case IN the United States.
The farmers of America cannot buy
goods, either foreign Or domestic, because
they cannot dispose of their produce. The
operatives of England cannot buy a sufi.
cheney of that produce, because the gIut-
ted market for goods suspends heir abors
and wages at the same time. This unna-
tural separation of interests and mutual
injury inflicted upon each other, has been
the result OF government iealousies kept
alive by parties who have sought special
privileges to themselves, at the expense of
the remaining portion of the people at
home and abroad. 1t has been supposed
that the welfare of the state required its
independence, as 1t has been called, Of other
countries for It's supplies. Yetlhe nation
that has great deal to sell, is as much
dependent upon the buyer as the latter is
upon the producer. The transaction of
sale and purchase is a mutual benefit
Special privileges have only served to
make the government and certain classes
rich and powerful at the expense of the
people. England is an eminent example
of the working of this theory. Her 90
yernment and arstocracy combine power
and wealth IN an extraordinary degree, but
the condition OF her people Is far from en-
vlable. Her power itself is fast becoming
nominal. In an actual war she would in
Htct great and serious injuries upon her
opponent; but her commercial interests,
on which that power rests, makes the ex.
istence OF the war impossible. The peo-
pie of England have discovered that peace
and commerce are The means of their well
fare, and not taxes and glory. To extend
commerce they have successfully demand
ed free trade in corn. The idea that to
depend upon foreign nations for corn is
injurious to the national welfare, has been
pronounced by the popular leaders in Par
lament, as absurdity, and the national
voice has declared for entire freedom in
the trade in that article, The u. States
are eminenty fitted by resources, habit.
industry, and position, TO supply the want
of England; ana the people OF this countrE
have demanded an Abandonment OF tie 90
solete notion OF protective duties, which,
IN their operation, mean, pra tica.i, an
embargo on sales of corn to El4ta1a, by
torblddlng the entry OF The returns IL ar3-
ducts OF British industry. The stas5 ii
Texas, in its independent condition, cold
not successfully carry on its government,
and it asked to be annexed TO the Uaion.