The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-26
speech Of w. M. CORY. ssa..

sPcSch OF W. W.
HI The Democratic Ratification Meeting IN Tan,plany Hall
follows
The result in Ohio and Pennsy proves that The
wing party IS ds6anded, and the old party issues are TOT
the present settled IL will therefore, be profitable Tor
this meeting 10 hear short explanation OF The resoiu
lions OF the committee external relations Anu
nfs OF The commercial system IN very genelai aSo
and without TO many figures or Calculations IL 10
to suppose that the United States Is second IN
point OF maritime strength, 10 England we have, on
the contrary the best and highest tonnage OF any nation
We exceed England altogether IN the quality OF our ships
as our steamers and clippers show by their actual per.
fomances and the America has put The English out OF
conceit of Yachting Our sailors very far superior 10
those OF our former rivals and the management OF
sells in every respect by better understood In guam
ty have excess OF tonnage over the British,
sderng the activity OF steamers and the increases
at greater ratio every year. provided estimate half
million OF tons engaged on the Mississippi and its bu.
taries in the transportation OF produce, and including all
the craft in the British inland trade 1. might moi be
hazardous to hold that within ten years with no violent
change in human affairs, the tonnage of the United States
will be equal TO that OF all the world But there will be
change and that not remote, W hich forbds any such
prediction Our shipping interest demands greater
ton than has yet received from the government We
should endeavor TO secure with all nations perfect reel
duties on caIgoes and tonnage of which there fragrant
instances. Our commerce with France and Eng is
now greater than either of them has with the other al
though neghbors, and the richest of all nations With
France would not be impossible introduce great
changes OF her tariff system. She is sister republic, and
in spite OF adverse circumstances our ancient ties to her
splendid people will lead TO that close intimacy and
merce which the value and difference OF products demand
The modification OF fifty per cent, in the United States
to expect corresponding alteration But neither England
nor France will remain in their present position The
season will be triumph Of the tory policy The navi-
cation laws will be modified. and the land
S =, ns Of the people Tor the reduction Of
the contrary, will be highly beneficial to u.s.
AS soon as the democracy, on the second Sunday of
May next shall have installed itself in possession of the
republic. there will follow treaty of amty,
and hope, alliance. by which the desnies OF the two
countries shall be united and their institutions impressed
upon the world. There will be modification Of the
French tariff on PROVISIONS and market thrown open TO
the great producing States Of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
lions Of dollars, which will diminish the suffering OF the
French operative, and fill the houses of the western
men in the United States should know and ponder these
things. and lay the foundation now OF system of foreign
policy accordingly.
In the North and Baltic seas is a further field for
great increase OF trade in the southern staples OF
and rice and tobacco, and in whale oil but the whole
affair Is complicated with all manner of changes One
OF these changes deserves special attention il is the
vexatious and heavy toll exacied from and other
nations for passing through of the called the
Sound. which joins two oceans, paid by all ships and
catgGes 10 Inc petty kng Of Denmark under title
erty of citizens of the United States passing along By
the castle OF Esinore is met by loaded cannon and
lighted matches, and made by that kind of force stand
goods plundeed by the old baons of the same latitude
10 the middle ages The whole matter is explained by
the attention of all sections of the Union the South in
particular On cotton, the duty paid for going what
the highway OF nations. but is fenced up by the
Danish King, tor the purpose that his fellow high
waymen obsruct the turnpike in the night, is nearly
forty cents The hundred Pounds-rom one dollar and
whole cotton CROP four five Millions and on the
trade which prevents with the Car of Northern Europe
to avery large sum, no. worth estimating however, be-
cause the trade itself is cut off This thing is kept uI
by England and the despos of the North protect diver,
monopoles by il; and she has her own monopoly of til,
market for about twenty millions of cotton twist II
to obstruc Broadway, his barrier would be in
stanty knocked down by the first conner and should
the merchants OF the United States treat the
Esnore for not only steals cotton but tobacco whale
OIL and rce and puts these republican products in royal
The true nature Of the Zol Verein should be examined
and the United States stand ready introduce their
Piles, on the most favorable TERMS the that the
power oil the kings is superseded by that of the people
These cogged with duties OF import and transit
and other charges which might be mgaled 1t could be
shown that we might soon, under rigorous democratic
administration, open and improve all the demands for
our products IN the north OF Europe
Switzerland is most anxious TO increase her trade with
the United States she has carried under great dis
advantages Her cotton has been hauled across France
by several kinds OF conveyance and her goods ship
ing her railroad towards the south OF France and the
Mediterranean and, by the United States steamers
can have her direct trade in imports and exports She
skful and INDUSTRIOUS and her command OF capital
water power, and the economy OF the people and
meni, would soon make her manufacturing rival for
England IN cotton goods and various other articles.
Then, there is the ELECTROMAGNETIC seat of the
movement for liberty IN modern times, and the home OF
ancient civilization. IL might easily be ours The
Tying trade will be done day by American built
steamers and clippers, and might be done Yet we
have comparatively commerce nor business in the
Mediterranean. Hardly five American ships visit the
Black Sea year 10 more than thousand British and
the appearance OF the Mississippi the Levant
was appariton. II was, however glorious appari-
ton, and It's euand noble the ship iormi-
dabe.
Time does allow the further disc .sion OF The state
OF our commerce in Europe IL needs a vigorous and
amending hand We see our ancient rival Eng land
only commercially, but erri,oray in possession OF
all the important inets OF trade. Her she has
opened, but always subject TO order in council and
soon to be shut by the accession OF the tories, under
Stanley and Dsraeli, to power She is the real tyrant
OF the Danish SOUND for she upholds him for her own
profit, She stole Gibraltar, in 1707, from Spain and
keeps since She il receiving from the thief
(Pacba) OF Egypt the shmus Of Suez, and her title 10
Alden about good that OF Brooke Saranak be.
fore and snse the wholesale slaughter which has quail.
fed him for perpetual vlcefoy. England allied on
every side, since she helped to destroy Turkish naval
strength al Navarino, with the Gar IN that compact by
which the Dardanees embarrassed. The Sultan
would be very glad escape The United States should
cultivate assduousy republican France and the little
as to acquire for herself babilaon and a in Eu-
rope She has not harbo there. She was kicked out
OF Mahon She is only tolerated at Spezzia. and pTepa
rahons are actually going TO drive her, and her
seree and example out Of Bremen into the sea-Her
mann, Washington, and all
But Asia and the treasures OF the East invite us and
the change OF affairs made by The spread of the republic TO
the Paclnc will require a and magnificent system of
friendship commerce, and ntercommerce with China