The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-20
The Haytisn Empire-Important CONNER
eIal Movement.

Below we give copy Of an important memorial
presented to Congress- few days since, by Senator
Davis of Massachusetts,. praying recognition of
Hayti.ss an independent state, that our commerce
with that country may be placed upon the same
footing our commerce with other independent ma
tons The memorial is signed by about ffty of the
most wealthy and eminent merchants in the city of
Boston. The memorial was referred unanimously to
the Committee on Foreign Relations. from whom we
trust favorable report will be received at an early
day
10 the Honorable the Senate and House of Rs,resen
tofireS OF ne Caifcd States Of Ana1ca, IN Con-
gresS assembled.
The undersigned, merchants of Boston, respect
fully represent TO Congress-
That Hayti, &c fact0 an independent State since
the hrst OF January. 1904 by the declaration of her
independence, and de jitre since July, 1925 by the
recognition of France, under Charles the Tenth, and
all the great powers of Europe-which, subse-
quentiy. has been confirmed by treaties passed an
ratified between the government Of King Louis
Philippe OF the French. and Hayt as an indepen-
dent State-has, however, never been recognized by
the United States for which this petition now most
respectfully and earnestly prayeth.
The great interests of our shipping, agriculture,
growing manufactures. and commerce in general,
imperatively require tha. this very important and
growing trade should be regulated and established
upon as firm basis as it is already with regard to
the most favored European nations-while it now
exists only by suferance.
The Importance of this trade is seen 10 the repors
oil the Secretary OF the Treasury of the United
States, ending June 1850 and 1851, and show: That
IN the fiscal year Of 1850, we had engaged in the
Haytien trade seventy. four thousand six hundred
and seventy tons Of American shipping, which
was navigated by three thousand five hundred and
four American seamen, and this Independently Of
that trade In foreign shipping, clearing from and
entering into eur ports. And during the same wear
the United States exported to Hayti to the amount
OF one million three hundred and fifty thousand one
hundred and lightweight thousand dollars, whilst
to China, this country, in the year, only ex-
ported to the amount of one million six hundred
and five thousand two hundred and seventeen dol
lars, and only employed half the tonnage which
it has engaged in the Hayten trade-the tonnage
in the China trade being, in the year 1850 thirty
nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-nipe tons
The tonnage Of the United States engaged in the
trade to Hayti, in 1850, exceeds twenty thousand
tons that to Ireland and Scotland together; thirty
thousand tons that to the Hanse Towns and as
much as that to Belgium
II exceeds. by two thousand tons, that trading
with botn the Atlantic and Mediterranean ports Of
Spain, and double that trading with France on the
Mediterranean, taking together the French West
Indies the French fisheries, French Guiana, and the
Isle of Bourbon
Itequals the aggregate amount of that trading
to Portugal, Madeira, the Azores, the Cape de
Verde Islands, Italy, Sicily, Trieste, and All the
other Austrian ports, and Turkey.
1t exceeds more than twenty thousand the trade
with Holland and the Dutch East Indies Brazil.
with her population of five millions, only employs
one-third more American shipping, and Mexico en-
ploys onethird less American shipping, than Hayti
Indeed, Venezuela, Bolivia, the Cisplatine and
equal Hayh in this respect. Now this Haytien
trade has increased this last year, 1851, $3i5Ig7
making in all, trade amounting to ST. $50 1868, or
ratio OF increase Of nearly twenty five per centum
And although our trade to China has much in
creased during the last year, 1851, yet our tonnage
in the Hayden trade is still equal to that with
China and our exports in domestic produce is only
$476,573 more than that which we exported to |
Hayti during the same year-the amount Of our i'm,
ports being 81 $50 1868 and our exports in domestic
produce, $l619, 373 and in domestic and foreign.
Sl,Sl7,O Indeed, with the 81 different countries
with which the foreign commerce of the United |
States is transacted Hayt is the eighth in the shin.
ping employed, exclusively of New Granada, whose |
ports serve merely as stopping places, or transts
Nor is the interest of the Haytien ira lie confined
to one portion of the United States, for the New |
England States export thereto their fish and domes-
tics Pennsylvania, Northern Virginia, Maryland,
and the Western States, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
York. Massachusetts, Illinois and Ohio, their beef
Philadelphia and Boston their soap finally, Maine.
North and South Carolina, Virginia and kentucky
their lumber, rice and tobacco. Our manufactures
OF New England, New York and Pennsylvania,
have begun to supply the Haytien market with our
cheap cotton goods, and even those of Georgia
might, with the same enterprise. compete az sue
cessfully with European goods, as do already those
which are now exported to that market by our rising
manufactures.
Mexico, with population of eight millions, took
last year from the United States to the amount Of
1896, 507 less than Hayti, and employed twenty sy
thousand tons less than our trade to the latter.
Then the trade to Hayti is more profitable: for
from the former our vessels return in ballast or go
elsewhere to seek cargo, whilst from Haytia
freight may always be had-if not ALWAYS in coffee
certainly In mahogany, logwood, or hemp Hayt |
imports from the United States eleven times more
cotton goods than Cuba-this last years report
showing the comparison OF two hundred and ninety
SIX thousand dollars worth to Cuba.
Hayti consumes three times more of our -four
than Cuba; SIX times more pork; FIVE times more
SOAP s25 2 boxes, to $50 74Si in Cuba: six times
mo rt0k lad EpI
-andmuch more dried and smoked fsh-being one |
hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars compared |
to eighty four thousand dolars-whch last article
thsh) must be considered of the highest Importance
to the States the fishing trade being the great
nursery Of our Indeed, it was the fisheries
which gave the first impetus to ship building when
we had no other market but liberated and indepen-
dent Hayti-all the other principal colonies being
closed to our enterprise directed to that trade.
And these beneficial effects are known in every
town and city in New England, and felt and ackow-
legged as the origin of some Of the prncely fortunes
OF the families and merchants Of those enterprsing
States which have carried flag to every country
the globe. Now the West Indies is our great and
principal foreign market for the aforesaid articles,
and for which Hayti is still our best customer and
stands foremost the list largest market in
the world, and far above all others who trade with
us in this important article.
Indeed our exports Of dried and picked fish to all
the West Indies (Cuba therein included) in 1850.
amounted to S372, $50; ofwhch Hayti took 80 602
which last amount of the Haytien trade is about
one-third OF the aggregate amount Of our trade in
that article to the world (s456, 494).
This subject deserves the the attention ofour
country from the well-known fact that France and
England are now holding out their fostering hands
10 their important fisheries. By benefting Hayti,
we benefit our fishing, our shipping, our manufac.
turing, our agricultural and commercial interests
generally.
Hayt has neither the will nor the ability to iniure
the United States, but she might have the one and
the other If she were the dependency of a foreign
power.
Hayti has given proof Of her ability to maintain
her Independence, by her successful efforts against
the armies Of Spain, England, and, above ALL those
Of France. Since the expulsion of the French,
which time she has adopted the codes Of Napoleon,
and the civil, administrative, and military laws Of
the French empire, under which she now lives. to
gether with the trial by jury, and constitutional