Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-31
Independence Of Hayii.

to our commerce with Hoyti. This is ask
ing too much of the south. What, recog-
nize the independence Of n nation Of Mig
gers' Never will they consent to il. Not
even if the merchant princes of Boston
should SO far conquer their prejudice for the
sake Of their trade, as to consent to the re-
cep,iou Of a sable ambassador at Washing
ton. Not they. 1t would be tantamount to
an acknowledgment of the rights of their
own slaves to independence.
The Boston petition recites the following
facts;
That Hayti, dc 6ncio on Independent state
since the first Of January, 1904, by tie dec
laration Of her Independence, aud de iure
since July, 1926, by the recognition of
France under Charles the Tenth, aud all the
great powers of Europe-which, subse-
quently, has been confirmed, by treaties
passed aud ratified between the government
Of King Louis Philippe of the French, and
Hoyti us an independent 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, ngri-
culture, growing manufactures, aud com
mcrce in general, ilnperatively require that
this very important aud growing trade should
be regulated and established upon as firm
basis us il is already with regurd to the most
favored European natious-while it now
exists only by sufierance.
The importance of this trade is seen in
the reports of the Secretary Of the Treasury
OF the United States, ending June 1850 aud
1851, which show: 1'hat in the fiscal year Of
1850, We had engaged ia the Hayden trude
74,62l tuns of American shipping, which
was navigated by 3,50i American seamen,
and this independently of that trade in for
egD shipping, clearing from und entering
into our ports. Aud during the sane year
the United States exported to Hayti TO the
amount of $l,350,l06, while TO China, this
country, in the same year, only exported TO
the amount of 81 COS 2l7, aud only employ
ed one half the lunnage which it has engaged
in the Hnyiien irade-thc Wnnage in the
China trade being, in the year 1850, 3,790
tuns.
The tunnage of the United States engaged
in the trade TO Hayt, in 1850, exceeds 30
000 tuns; that to Ireland and Scotland to-
gether; 10000 tuns to the llanse towns, aud
is rs much as TINT TO Belgium.
II exceeds, by two thousand tuns thnt trad
iJg with both the Atlantic and Mediterranean
ports of Spain, and doubles that trading with
France on the Mediterranean, taking togeth-
er the French West Indies, the French fish
cries, French Guiana and the Isle Of Bour-
bon.
IL equals the aggregate amount of that
trading to Portugal, Madeira, the Azores, the
Cape de Verd Islands, Italy, Sicily Trieste,
aud all the other Austrian ports, and Tur-
key.
II exceeds by more than 10000 the trndo
with Holland aud the Dutch East Indies
Brazil, with her population of 5,000000 only
employs one third more American shipping,
and Mexico employs one-third less Amer
lean shipping, than Iiayti.
Indeed, Venezuela, Bolivia, the Cisplatine
and Argentine Republics and Peru, all to-
gether only equal Ilayti in this respect
Now, this Hayden trade has increased this
last year, 1851, S3l5, 1917, making, in all, n
trade amounting to 81 ,S90,96S, or u ratio of
incrense of nearly 25 per centum.
And although our trade TO China has much
increased during the last year, 1851, yet our
lunnage in the llaytien trnde is still equal
to that with China, and our exports in do
mestic produce is only S476,573 more than
that which we exported TO llayti during the
same year-the amount of our Imports be-
ing g ,S6996S, and our exports, in domestic
produce, 81 ,670,3 1873, aud in domestic aud
foreign Sl,8l7,290. Indeed, with the al
different countries with which the foreign
commerce of the u. S. is transacted, Hayti
is the eighth in the shipping employed ex-
clusively of New Granada, whose ports serve
merely as stopping places, or transits.
Nor is the interest of the Haytiem trade
confined TO one portion of the United Suites,
for the New England States export thereto
their fish and domeslics; Pennsylvania,
Northern Virginia, Maryland and the West
ern States, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and
Missouri, their pork; Vermont, New York,
Massachusetts, Illinois and Ohio, their Beef;
Philadelphia and Boston their sonp; finally
Maine, North aud South Carolina, Virginia
and Kentucky, their lumber rice and tobac-
co. Our manufactures of New England,
New York aud Pennsylvania, have begun to
supply the lIaytien market with our cheap
cotton goods, and even those of Georgia
might, with the same enterprise, compete
as successfully with European, goods us do
already those which are now exported TO
that market by our rising manufactures.
Mexico with a population of 100000
took last year from the United States TO the
amount of $3i5,507, less than Hayti, and
employed 10000 tons less than our trade to
the latter.
Then the trade to lIayti is more profitable;
for from the former our vessels return to
ballast or go elsewhere to seek cargo, while
from Hayti freight may always be had; if
not always in coffee, certainly in mahogany,
logwood or hemp. Hayli imports from the
U. States eleven times more cotton goods
than Cuba-the last years report showing
the comparisons of S2,096000 worth of ex-
ports to Hayti, and only $4,000 worth to
Cuba.
'Ilayti consumes three times more Of our
-four than Cuba six times more pork five
times more SOAP ,295, ,692 boxes, TO $780,
748 in Cuba six times more picked fish
l0,299 barrels, and much more dried and
smoked fish being S262 600 compared with