The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-05
Dividing this equally over those years, W
should have. for

lS+4-5.. ls<s-9..,...,.. .43S
ls45-6..........42o Is49-5O..,... .444
ls46-7......... 1926 Is50-5I....... 450
lo47-S......... .432
IL was in reference TO the first of these years
that we stated that there had been CUT OUT no
less than l9l 900 bales, the real export having
been 2,083, 756, while the Union gave it as
having been only ,892, 900. How that opera
ton was accomplished we propose now to
show and, in doing so, we desire to call the
attention of readers to the fact that the doc
ument from which the Union draws its figures
in relation to that year was The first Of It's kind
that toas issued under the direction of Mr..
WALKER, then advocating change in the com
mercial policy of the country. In that report
the export of cotton is stated to have been
757 100000 pounds. The number of bales ex-
ported was 2.083 900; and, if we divide by
that number the weight here given, we obtain
as the weight per bale only three hundred and
SIXTY three pounds, instead OF Ala, proving that
they must have been submitted to a sloeatiatg
process, with view to produce results adverse
to the then existing commercial policy of the
country.
If now we turn to the statements of Professor
December, 1862 an authority to which the
Union cannot object, as he is of the same
school with its editors, we find the amount Of
this crop given at ,009, 100000 pounds, and
the export Of the year at Sl3 900, 900 pounds;
the difference between his statement and that
Published to the world by Mr. WALKER being
no less than lie, 900 pounds, worth, at the
prices of the day, 81 100000.
The Treasury Report for the following years,
1856, being the second compiled and pub
Hshcd under the direction OF Mr.. WALKER, gives
the export of that year at only SAT 100000
pounds; and this being divided by ,666,000,
the number of bales exported, we find them to
have been so much further soeated doom as 10
average only three hundred and twenty eight
pounds, instead of rising to four hundred and
twenty, or more, as they should, and must, have
done.
The crop Of this year is given, by Professor
McCAY, at 90l 100000, and the number OF
bales having been 100000, we obtain as the
weight per bale 429 pounds, or more, by one
hundred and one, than is given in Mr.. WALK
ER's report. From this it follows that the
amount CUT OUT by the opponents of the policy
of 1912 was about nc, 100000 pounds, worth,
at the price of the day, about $l3,600,000
which, added to the amount suppressed in Mr.
| Walkers first report, would give total Of
500 100000.
! In the following years the number of bales
exported, and the weight, as given in the
Treasury Reports, is as follows;
Bales Pounds IVeightper
exported. exported. bale
ls46-7.. Il, 24l 900 52s, 900 900 42G
| ls47-S.. i, 1853 900 S14,OOO,0 900 435
1853 2, 227, 900 l,O2s, OO0, 900 45l
We beg our readers now to mark the con
trast presented by the figures in the following
comparison of the average weight of bales
exported before and during Mr. Walkers
administration:
1899 40 to 1923 1884
Years of Mr.. Ualksr's Admin'n
| ls44-5. 1856. 1861. ls47-s
| 1863 1913 1926 43S
This is fair specimen OF British free trade
tables They are all alike-so much 50 that j
needs but TO know that statement in regard t.
trade comes from the Union, the Journal o
Commerce, the Erening Post, or the Pubi1
Ledger, or indeed from any other Of the paper,
that systematically advocate the maintenance
of British supremacy over the trade ofthe world
to feel assured that it is not entitled to the
slightest consideration. They are all Of then
but specimens of thinbLe-rigging; and no pro
fessor of the science of cup and balls was ever
more dexterous in the management Of his ma
chinery than are the manufacturers of free hadt
facts for those journals.
Our readers will now, we think, be little al
loss to understand'why our neighbor prefers to
furnish F'precise IDEAS" obtained by aid of Brit
ish free trade tables constructed with view
to produce desired results. He and his cor
respondents are not content to follow the
practice of the merchants of New York and
New Orleans, Liverpool, and Manchester, in
giving the bales. No! They would be more
precise" and they avail themselves Of figures
that carry on their face evidence that they are
utterly worthless. and whose worthlessness is
fully admitted, by one of their fellow advocates
Of British free trade, in substituting 873 mil
lions for the 757 millions of the official table fol
lS45.
1t becomes now question of some import
| ance to determine the cause of the eXtraordl-
nary fact to which we have invited the atten-
ton of our readers. We have here the returns
of two years falsifed By somebody, and for The
accomplishment Of some object. What was thai
object we will not undertake to determine; bu
it certainly does strike us as somewhat extra
ordinary that at the very moment December
lS45) when Mr.. WALKER was assuring the
planters that cotton was depressed in price by
the tariff" and that there was therefore "a
diminution in the product" of that staple, to the
injury of the South, and Substitution of hemp
wheat, corn, stock, and provisions" because o
that diminution, and 10 the injury Of the West
| there should so ODDOrfftnen be presented to Con