The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-09-05
AmeriOa and Great Britain.

America and Great Britain.
The entire value of British and Irish manuiao.
lures for 1913 is sf247, 100000. OF this amount
f195, 600, 900 worth was consumed at home and
5000, 900 in the colonies, and G39, 900 600 il
foreign countries--of which the United States pur
chased SO, 100000. The London Morning Herald
says;
The Americans are therefore, our best foreign customers
Individuality il we may speak but they also by fla
ISIS ali Sorhe and Western Eupop cur from Russia
with The Whole Of the f rom sGf Portugal 81 10 o
rocco, but eight millions and half; and South America
WIN Mexico, considerably under six millions. The average
amount Of exports from the United Kingdom 70 F g a
Germany for yiRa a snS Se EIh 5 and 10
1t clear therefore, that no nation takes much of our
commodities the United States calculating their con
sumption the average of twelve years Taxing thee
half we still find the Saies consuming les than
Of exports while consumed more than two thIas %,
more ei than 81, 90, 1000 sterling. ''
Now will the British Government give up this
market for the sake of delaying the period when
the Federal Republic shall hold the keys to the Gull
| of Mexico and California Cuba and Iigre Island
are essential to the interests Of America The
| time must come sooner or later when these points
must belong to US. A recent writer IN trazer's
Magazine Gen. Cass's authority,) admits the SUI
perior claims of this country to Cuba. He enlarges
on the worth of Cuba as a naval station. In doing
this he calls attention to act too little compre-
bended by our own citizens, viz that all our good
naval stations are north Of Norfolk. From the Rio
Grande to the Chesapeake, an extent of sea. coast
over nearly 1000 miles, we have not a solitary
naval station of first-rate importance. Pensacola
is the best but is still only of secondary value
The accession of Cuba, which blocks up as it were
the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico approaching
to within $50 miles of Yucatan on the West, and
1870 of Florida on the Nortb,) would remedy this
defect, besides giving us, in the harbor of Havana
one of the best naval stations in the world. The
inconvenience which we would suffer, in the event
of war with Great Britain, from this want of naval
stations on the South, is forcibly made out by
Frazer. He says:
" So greatly dsproporioned are the naval advantages pos
sesed by America the extent of its coast that the posses
sion of the eaboqE OF the British provineesthat to
and the Gulf Of St. LawrenGe-woud treble hernava power
aud yet The whole coasne of these provinces more
Of the Republic But, addition to the advantage Of hav
ing the chief naval stations Of the country clustered together
they leaving nearly destitute, in this respect great
extent Of coast to the southwark is the other and still
greater disadvantage Of having these stations situated as
be commanded Of the important outposts
Of The most formidable marltme power in the world From
with her fleets, the whole of the Atlantic seaboad Of America
From Halifax she is within days sail OF Boston, within
Bermuda that lonely wachower Of England on the deep
which southern parts of America what Halifax to The
northern, ehe Is within five days sail Of Cape May the
mouth OF the Delawaof Cape Henry the entrance 10
ChesapeaSe Bay-ot Care Fear on the coast Of North Caro-
chief seaport of the SOuthol savannah and Danen, the
tine on the Atlantic coast Of Florida and the chief ear6po
Of that peninsula. Thus from Halifax she directly commands
the from The Bay OF Fundy to Cape May and from
Bermuda the remainder of it from Cape May St Angus
tlne The Halifax squadron could blockade Boston and
tween the Delaware and the Chesapeake might put Pha
dephia, Baltimore Washington, and Richmond, in oil
1T under these circumstances that the possession
Cuba BY any powerful maritime state particularly by Grea
dangerous, to America For let look for moment at the
e within the tFobc Of CspeeF u brows rs WeserS
moety almost like gate, the entrance the Gulf
Mexico There two channels leading into the Gulf the
island forming side OF both The two channels are abou
equal in width that on the Florida and that on the ura
that such position, with the harbos its command
makes Cuba the Key Of the Gulf tits in view of this that
its importance assumes such magnitude in the of the
American people For what meant by Cuba being the Key
OF the GULF Neither more nor e than that can control
Atlantic and Calf Of Mexico. In The hands OF weak
strong power, Ike that Of England would inevitably be.
Their present acquisitions have mad the Gulf
sufficiently dazzling lead the Americans 10 believe that
long will be exclusively theirs. tits wonder there
sGy Of an island falling into the hands Of England the pos
session Of which by England would enable her to control in
growing States large proportion Of that Of the Mississippi
and also the Eastern provinces of MEXICO 1t would not
New SJeaps and Vera Cruz hui aiso Win HaiSS and WT
mnda TO encircle the whole toas from Maine to Texas
with her military ouposts, so that mple declaration Of
in state Of blockade But this is all for, in addition
the Gulf, Cuba might be made to command the whole
the direct line rom any Of The Atlantic or Gulf ports OF the
Union to the lshmus of Panama, section Of the Continent
greatest highway in the world"