The daily union., 1852-11-30

would DC Increased many oiu ihe hosuie huiahs Wueh
nest its banks and prevent their settlement would be
driven away and lands that proflless, aud pro-
duce that is valueess would become profitable
We admit the coffee OF Brazil into ports duty free
We are her best customer and friend and il is quite time
that Brazil had sgnazed her appreciation OF this patron
age and friendship by sign token at least that
she too would be liberal in her policy
Since the subjects of Brazil themselves have not
Judged il expedient to put steamer the Tocan,
tins 10 go up after all this coffee, and rice, and sugar
aad tobacco, &c. it certainly would be wise in her 10
permit citizens OF the United States, OF France
OF England 10 do it, They would gladly 20 up this river
after this fine Goyaz coffee. Her subjects then would
receive double the price they receive for it. and the
rest OF their produce. Those of them who employed
in transporting this merchandise TO the board by
water and by land would then find more profitable
ploymeni in the cultivation OF the soil Double the price
OF the staples OF country and you only double the
price OF labor. bat you greatly enhance the national
wealth Increase the substance Of the subject and you
increase his power TO pay taxes and this, imagne is
| what Brazil wants.
But this river Tocantns lies wholly within Brazilian
territory she has the right to open il to the oil
the world or not she peases and her action with
gard to il is Just Of complaint offence any
nation.
Not so. however when she keeps closed The Amazon,
endeavos because she holds the mouth OF that river
to shut it up. and TO of those five Spanish American
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commerce with the world, and all the world from CON-
mercs with them.
! There physical agencies at work upon the great
Atlantic slopes of South America which will for ages
prevent its inhabitants from becoming seafaIng people
The laws OF Nature have ordained that the people who
dwell upon those slopes shall be tilles Of the earth
keepers OF ocks and herds That wise aw-gver never
intended that men should forsake land of milk and
honey for the mariners calling. when. after toll, hard
ship, danger, and exposure, he only gain the
OF frugal subsistence from the sea-
Bread grows trees in Brazil; honey is found in the
woods; and there is tree there, too which. being
tapped, yields abundanty rich juice which the people
use instead OF milk Nature has yet put in the
heart Of man to orsake such land and take TO the
The sea-font of these beautiful slopes proclams this
same law OF Nature II is written in the fields whis.
pered in the breeze and felt in the climate
The sea has no spell by which the entertainments Of
soft climates. fertile soils, cheap lands and healthy
country can be broken 1t is necessiiy-and that. oo
necessity that is right sternwhch induces for
sake the land and take 10 the sea for living.
Among the conditions requisite to make the people OF
any country seaaring people pecuaries of soil and
climate which make it easier for the werkngmano earn
his bread at than tits the land These peculiares
do not exist in Brazil, and Brazil has no seamen Only
look whence the sailors that now do the fetching
and carrying across the They from the
climates OF the tropical regions of the NORTH and
not from the sunny climes of the south. They come
from Old and New England, the north of Europe and
of America. Who heard of western people who
live in the Mississippi valley sending their be-
| fore the mast to make sailors Of
II 10 too easy there TO living out OF the soil
Much easier is it in the valley Of the Amazon, where
the pantan and the banana the most nutritious OF food,
grow and rpen and prepared for the table without
even the of the laborer dress the plant the
Wand where rice grows wild, the sugar-cane rpens
every eight months, and where food enough support
a population of millions is annually wasted for the
of laborefs TO gather IT, How the people OF such
country become seafaring people What, short Of
the messengers of Gods wrath, the famine and the pes
lence, could drive people from such land, induce
them 10 forsake il and follow the sea
Another condition necessary 10 the establishment, oil
seaaring communities is the presence of the sea.
Contrast the rock bound coast of South America-iis
stiff outlines, its want OF articulation the rigid forbid
ding front OF its Atlantic sopes-wh the waving
shores, their magnificent CULTS, their beautiful bays and
harbors. with their cspes, promonories, and pennsu
las, OF the northern maritime regions OF the earth and
see how forcby Nature has proclaimed the fact that the
soil and The climate OF Brazil forbid her people 10 follow
the When the dry land first appeared it was odan.
ed that power Of maritime habits never 10 dwell
where Brazils
Look at the Baltic sea, the Mediterranean, and the
Black. which, with their and CULTS, stretch up into
the heart OF Europe, and by their presence invite the
people 10 leave those populated districts and inhos
piabe cmes 10 roam over The and visit the
spots OF the earth.
Again, look here in like manner n the northern hem
isphere, at the Red sea, the Persian gulf jutling out
Hindoslan, tipped with the pendant isle OF Ceylon, the
bay OF Bengal the straits Of Mslacca. the CULTS OF Siam
and Tonquin, the yellow sea, with the seas OF japan
and Okosk winding along the shores, insinuang them
selves among the people far back in the country and
with coast line wonderfully indented inviting them
out TO seaconsde this and then contrast this shore line
of the north with the shore lines OF Africa and New
Holland. There is no articulation there, and Nature
never intended either Of these two continents as the
home OF a maritime and seafaring people
The same contrast holds between the bays CULTS.
to compare them with the straight lines which in
South America divide The dry land from the sea- Ma
ture, therefore, is against Brazil with her ongngs for
maritime consequence She must be content to lei other
fetch and carry for her She can never have the
shipping nor the 10 carry her own produce TO mar.
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All OF Europe. some Of Asia, half OF Africa most OF
North America, and ninety and nine parts Of South
America, drained into the Atlantic The three
largest rivers in the world empty into ii, and the largest
OF river basins tributary TO IL.
| II is but as narrow canal which separates Europe
and Africa from the New World. and the amount of
back country which through nver-basns and Atlantic
slopes is tributary TO this oceanic canal must forever send
down to il an immense Of produce and merchan
disc. The Atlantic is therefore destined 10 be for
the great scene OF this worlds business and OF CON-
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