The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-03


them on all articles in which interested
The grand duchy of Mecklenburg- Schwern has en-.
oyed all the advantages IN carrying since 1885, by the
PROCLAMATION of the President pursuant TO the act of Con-
sress of May "a 1928, that it will enjoy by accession 10
he Hanover treaty II was moreover. privileged to pur
base It's vessels wherever they could be bad cheapes
nut BY the OF this treaty, is restricted in lbs
with us, TO the vessels of its build. those
4 the build of the United States, by which our shin
builders will be nehted Still, appreciated the liberal
prt manifested by government, and consented 10
ecprocate II by besowng upon us everything CONNER
:iay ut It's disposal.
The .cork Of negotiating the proper kind Of CONNER
raj treaties under the auspices Of Mr. buchanan IS noc
friy commenced and trust las bet,eue) that ,cN
s prosecuted, until every nation 10 hat
rue spirit Of generosity displayed BY Hanover Oden.
5ug and MecklenJurg- Schperin We desire TO see en-
ire freedom al navigation extended to all foreign STATES
but ichere there inequality m sze and m commercial
perations should enact relaxation import duties
tpon products.
It is not easy to upon what principle any German
State can Justify itself in persisng to collect SO SO duty
the 100 pounds OF our tobacco when adjoining States
ony levy TO cents If the habits OF the people OF each
different with respect TO its there would be
sort of excuse though hardly justification for connu
ing this exorbitant tax But the people throughout Ger
many derive much enjoyment from the ppe as do the
subjects of Mecklenburg- Schwern, and, in fact, con-
slider it Indispensable in great degree, to their very
stence.
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg -Schwerln contains
Two seapors-Rostock and Wismar II is fertile coun-
try, containing 800 geographical square miles, and about
$4,000 inhabitants, who are in better condition than
any in Europe Its annual export OF corn, when the
crop is average one, amounts to 100000 bushels.
The regning Grand Duke Is nephew OF the Empress
of Russia of the King of Prussia and OF the Duchess
fOrleans He about "a years OF age, has been great
traveller, generous his sentiments, and uncommony
intelligent for his years His views of political economy
the creditabe to him account OF the relation
which he bears to the sovereigns OF Russia and Prussia,
and his near location to their capitals
Many of contemporaries copied this article alone,
and several of them copied in connexon with the proc
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aid, and with an additional favorable notice Of its own
But the New York Courier and Enquirer, the mouth
piece of Mr. Webster and the leading paper Of the Norhn
the support of Gen. Taylor for the presidency, reechong
the sentiments of the famous Baltimore speech, ''ike
MASTER like man." undertakes to condemn the whole re-
ciprocity systenpronouncing it one Of the legitimate
of the heor les of the present ad
of which if carried out and far carried
out the labor and industry OF the United States will pay all
the COSTS" Mr. Webster could not have been far from
the elbow OF the writer of this stupid paragraph for he is
mighty to enter into the calculation of "cos's"
his opinion of his counrymen they not
perhaps disposed to calculate the natural Justice of war;
but they disposed TO calculate the costs" He op
posed the extension Of slavery he says "bscae affects
u.s." and OF he in the way of costs! But
let leave the principal e moment, and return to the
needless political tool! There no carrying out of the
reciprocity system the part of the United States for the
benefit of Mecklenbug- Schwerin The treaty conces
sioas were exclusively in behalf of our country Meek
lenburg as seen in our editorial copied above received
nothing whatever that she not in the enjoyment Of,
and had been for the last thirteen years. her navigation
intercourse with the United States She was privileged
to carry and from all the world to US on the same
carried ourselves under an act OF Congress
"a long established law of the and-which makes il
obligatory upon the Executive to bestow similar prvi-
eges upon every nation however small for like pvileges
Mecklenburg not confined to the carrying in the
build of the vessels of her subjects and the citizens
of the United States she is by the treaty Just ratified
but she could purchase wherever she found profit
able Does this watchfulness the part of the admins
ration manifest disposition to make the labor and in
dustry Of the United States pay the cost " Does it
not. on the contrary, PROVE beyond the possibility OF
contradiction, that vigilant eye was kept upon the
labor and industry of the United States in requiring
Meckienburg, if she should need more ships than she
could build to purchase them from ourseves' Of all
the attempts at misrepresentation which we have ever
witnessed in the newspaper press, that OF the Courier in
the instance of the Mecklenburg treaty, is the most wifu
the degrading the most deliberate the studied
Charity though il little circumscrbed that Of
Heaven itself, could not hold this journal harmless Of
magn intentions, In repubshing our editorial although
especial taken to suppress (that itacsed
above) of the most important paragraphs sufcency
found its way into its columns to convict it OF design to
mislead the public mind. In neighboring column to
that which contained our garbled editoral-cnough of
which left to explain the facts of the caseit re-
marked But the flag Of this paltry sovereignty is NOW
made equal to thatof these broad United States which
and for the privilege of trading with the half million of
people who inhabt this Duchy they are authorized 10
carry trade with the 2O0ooo0o people of these United
States the footing and at like duties with us
Americans" This paragraph appeared the sth OF
August; the previously quoted, the 18th They
OF the tenor and characterized by the same
disregard for truth. Our one is applicable to
both; except that cannot why State generous
haps, in proportion to its population, than any in Eu-
rope without taking anything in return, and con-
sentng by the terms of this very treaty. to extend Their
consumption by levying upon them mere nominal
duties, should be branded with the epithe "PALTRr"
Paitry, quotha Now, pahry, according to the recog
Missed definition, means despicabie, mean, base Is this
the language that Americans apply to state that has had
the liberalty to favor more than any nation in the
world state where, as was remark ed by eminent
member OF the German National Assembly not long