The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-22

10 the Honorable Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatigss of The United STATES Of America, a
Congress assembled

The undersigned, merchants Of Boston, respect
fully represent to Congress
That Hayti, de facto an independent State
since the first Of January, 1904, by the decara
ton OF her independence, and de Jure since July
1925, by the recognition OF France, under
Charles the Tenth, aud all The great powers Of
Europe-which subsequently, has been con
6rmed by treaties passed and ratified between
the government of King Louis Philippe Of the
French, and Hayti as an independent State--has
however never been recognized by the United
States, for WEIGH this petition now most respect
fully and earnestly prayeth.
The great interests of our shipping, agricul-
ture, growing manufactures. and commerce in
general, imperatively require that this very i'm
portant and growing trade should be regulated
and established upon as firm basis es it is
already with regard to the most favored Euro
pean natons--while it now exists only by suf-
ferance
The importance of this trade is seen in the re-
ports of 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 Hayden trade seventy four thous-
and six hundred and seventy-one tons of Ameri
can shipping, which was navgatcd by three
thousand FIVE hundred and four American sea
men, and this Independently OF that trade IN
foreign shipping, clearing from, and entering INTO
our ports. And during the same year the United
States exported to Hayti TO the amount of one
million three hundred and eighty eight thousand
dollars, whst TO China, this country, In the same
year, only exported to the amount OF one mil
lion six hundred and five thousand two hundred
and seventeen dollars, and only employed one
half the tonnage which it has engaged in the
fIaytian trade--the tonnage in the China trade
being, in the year 1850, thirty nine thousand
seven hundred and ninety nine tons.
The tonnage of the United States engaged in
the trade to Hayt in 1850, exceeds twenty
thousand tons that to Ireland and Scotland to.
gether thirty thousand tons that to the Hanse
Towns, and as much as that to Belgium.
IL exceeds, by two thousand tons, that trad
ing with both the Atlantic ard 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.
IL equals the aggregate amount of that trad
ing to Portugal, Madeira, the Azores, the Cape
do 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 chipping, and
Mexico employs ono-ihird less American ship
ping, than Hay'
Indeed Venezuela, Bolivia, the CispIatine and
Argentine republics, and Peru, all together, only
equal Hayti in this respect. Now this Havtien
trade has increased this last year, 1851, $345,
1877 making, in all, a trade amounting to ST.,
6a9, $685. or ratio of increase of nearly twenty
five per centum.
Ard al rod 10 China hau p,unb
increased during the last year, 1851, yet our
tonnage in the Haytien 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 imports being 81 889,968,
and our exports, in domestic produce, ST &c.,
373, and in domestic and foreign, 8 1877 900.
Indeed with the 81 different countries with
which the foreign commerce of the United
States is transacted Hayti is the eighth in the
shipping employed, exclusively of New Granada,
whose ports serve merely as stopping places or
transits.
| Nor is the interest OF the Haytien trade con,
| fined 10 one po-,ion of tho United Stntee, for
the New England States export thereto their
fish and domesics PENNSYLVANIA, Northern Vir
ginia Maryland, and the Western States, Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, and Miss their
pork Vermont New York, Massachusetts, Hi
nois, and Ohio, their beef; Philadelphia and
Boston their soap; finally, Maine, North and
South Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky, their
lumber, rice and tobacco. Our manufacturers of
New England, New York and Pennsylvania, have
begun TO supply the Hayten market with our
cheap cotton goods, and even those of Georgia
might, with the same enterprise, compete as
successfully with European goods, as do already
those which are now exported to that market by
our rising manufacturers.
Mexico, with population of eight millions,
took last year from the United States to the
amount of $335,507 less than Hayti, and EN-
pleyed twenty six 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 90 elsewhere TO seek cargo, whilst from
| Hayti freight may always be had-if not al,
ways 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 bundled and ninety six thousand dollars
worth to Cuba.
Havti consumes three times more of our flour
than Cuba; six times more pork; five times
more soap-l ,925 500 boxes, TO 389,748 in
| Cuba six times more picked fish--l0 289 bar
rels to 1899 barrels-and much more dried and
smoked fish--being one hundred and sixty two
thousand dollars compared to eighty flour thou
sand dollsrs--whch last article (fsh) must be
considered of the highest Importance to the
United States, the fishing trade being the great
nursery of our seamen. Indeed it was the fish
cries which gave the first impetus to ship build
ing, when we had no other market but liberated
and independent 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 acknowledged as The origin OF some of the
princey fortunes of the families and merchants
of those enterprising States, which have carried
our flag to every country on the globe. Now
the West Indies is our great aud principal
foreign market for the aforesaid articles, and
for which Hayt is still our best customer, and
stands foremost on the LIST as our 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 fisf
to all the West Indias (Cuba therein included)
in 1859, amounted to $372,Ss6; of which Hay
ii took $l5O,6O2, which last amount of Haytier