Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-06

to prefer the success of the Gar The one is
our rival as q manufacturing and commercial
nation, the other comes not into composition
with us Whilst, therefore our sympathies
are with Turkey because she ID weak, and IL
threatened by Government that ID strong
these sympathies are not 30 strong that they
may not be overcome when our interests are
fully ascertained to be involved by the dis
closures as to the policy and object OF Great
Britain. y" Washington Union,
While exposing yesterday the iasdious at
tempt Of the organ" to arouse prejudice
against England, and enlist sympathy for Rus
sia in the approaching struggle between the
Eastern and Western Powers of Europe, we
promised to notice the commercial reasons as
signed, for preferring the success Of Russia to
that Of England France, and Turkey. These
reasons, such as they are, ore stated in the ex-
tract quoted above, there is 30 little in them
that it is difficult to make them the subject Of
an argument.
If the Gar succeed, he will take permanent
possession of the Principalites, acquire pro-
tectorate over Turkey, be supreme in Central
Europe, and probably be able to embarrass
the commerce of Great Britain with the East
Indies What are we to gain from all this
The commercial policy of Russia is not 80 lib
eral as that of England. 1t produces little
that we want, wants little that we produce.
Were che in possession of Constantinople, it
would be AZ unimportant to us, as it is now.
II the allied Powers succeed, the independ-
ence Of Turkey is preserved. England may
obtain additional facilities of commerce, a
policy now is Free Trade and wherever her
influence extends, it is felt in favor of Free
Trade--than which nothing can be more ad-
vantageous to us, in o commercial point of
view.
Competition in trade, manufactures, and tho
arts, between nations with great resources for
all these forms of enterprise and resembling
one another in energy, tact. and intelligence,
is their appropriate stimulant, quickening their
enterprise, and developing their resources.
Under its energizing influences, the mightest
results are produced.
Great Britain and the United States are
competitors but at the same time they are
compliments to each other We supply her
with what she must have but can get nowhere
else she supplies us with what we need and
can obtain nowhere else on 80 favorable terms.
Hence, while rivals in commerce, and to GER
tain extent in manufacturer we are dependent
upon one another, more than any other two
nations From this it follows, that the cxpan-
sion Of the resources and power of the one is q
positive benefit to the other.
To talk of Russia being natural ally of
the United States and England our natural
enemy, is sheer madness. Look at this table,
which any one may verify by examining the
yearly tables Of our exports and imports:
P,.,oo Great Britain and
' her Dependencies.
Imports 1851, 600 sl06,595,22o
products I,Oso,74S I24,s3s,ssl
Exports Of Foreign
products I3s,732 5000, 1863
Total $2,7s2,l2O $3.50, 7so,9s4
The sum total Of our commerce yearly with
Great Britain and her dependencies, nearly
1924 900 900; with Russia, not quite 50 900, 900!
And in our petty trade with Russia, she takes
less of us than we take from her. while in our
magnificent commerce with Great Britain, she
receives from us s32, 00O, 900 more than we buy
of her. In fact our trade with Great Britain
and her dependencies is greater than with the
whole world beside, and she buys from us
nearly four-sixths Of all our exports of domestic
products
Suppose then. in the vicissitudes of a war
in the East, England should come into posses.
sion of Egypt, what commercial interest of ours
would suffer? The sum total of our domestic
products now consumed BY all Turkey is but
two hundred and twenty-five thousand Less
she cannot consume, under whatever domino
ton she may fall; but under the protectorate
Of Power like England, with her Free Trade
policy, she would be apt to increase her con-
sumption.
But the key to the preferences of "the or
gam we presume, is to be found in its predi-
lection for Cuba. 1t hates England because
che is the ally Of Spain, and il supposcs her
influence to be the chief obstacle to the acqui-
sition of Cuba 1t would prefer the success Of
the Car and the prostrati0n oil English power,
so that the project Of annexation might be vcn-
tured upon with IMMUNITY. In other words, it
would rejoice TO see that nation, which buys
from us nearly two thirds Of all our domestic
products whose commerce is Of more value to
us than that we carry on with all the world,
which is the best customer forthe cotton Of the
South and tho breadstuffs and animal products
of the West, utterly Frustrated by Russian
Power, in war, too, waged by that Power for
its own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, by the dismember-
mcnt Of an unoifending State and all this, 30
that this Government might obtain a few thou
sand square miles more of Slave Territory
This is Pro-Slavery statesmanship
A LUCID EXPLANATION. - Tho Louisville