The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-27

our influence over Mexico and Cuba would re-
dound exclusively to the interest of the
Southern portion of the Union, and that it
should be resisted on grounds of sectional inte-
| rest and influence.
| A greater fallacy than this could not be easily
found; for not only is it not true in its assertion
that the South is exclusively interested in the
| extension Of our southern frontier, but the fact
| is that the North. and more particularly New
England, draws far greater advantage from
our extension southwark than any other section
of the Union. The political weight that may
have accrued to tie South by the admission of
| Texas has been counterbalanced three or four
| times over by the admission of new Northern
! States, while the actual material advantage is
with the North. The direct and indirect trade
of New York and Boston with the ports of
| Texas is Numbered times greater than that
of all the Southern ports together. Sena-
! tor Stewards declaration On the floor of
the Senate that the fight between the
| social eystems for politica, preponderance
| in the Union has been fought and won is emil
nently true; and while the political elements of
the agitation that hos been 30 rife for a gene
ration among US is dying out, ii behooves US to
consider what are the true principles involved
in the bringing of new territories within our
| circle.
| These new principles are entirely of an in
| dustrial and commercial characterize open
ing of new markets for that thriving industry
which hives in our Northern States; the re-
moval of those tariffs protective laws, preventa-
tive regulations and jealous schemes of policy
that now SO greatly obstruct our trade with
Mexico and Cuba; free interchange with
them of the products of the fisheries, looms
| and forests of New England, and the grains and
meats of the Northwest, for the intertropcal
and metallic productions natural to them The
extension Of our influence over Mexico and
| Cuba might give them stable government
and prospect Of q permanent future, and thus
rebound greatly to their advantage. But a
much more palpable benefit would accrue to
ourselves. Every mill privilege in New Eng
land would double in value at once; the demand
for the products of her looms would more than
double in one year, three times the present yield
of her fisheries would not suffice to meet the
wants Of the new trade; every article that her
prolific ingenuity now produces would be at
once demanded by ten millions of new con-
sumers and in return we should have the rich
productions OF Cuban agriculture without the
burthen of double line of duties and the
| countless treasures Of the now almost unworked
mines of Mexico.
A very few statistics will demonstrate this.
| We will take Cuba first? That island now con-
sumes, in round numbers the following articles
Of trade, which she should mostly, if not entire.
ly, get from U.S.
Cotton, woollen and linen fabrics. s6,oOO,OOO
! Meats, fish, DC. Observation-Disclosures. 5000, 900
| Flour (nearly all from SPAIN. $50. 5000, 900
| Lumber Observation-Disclosures. 1000, 900
Total from New England and the
Northwest. Observation-Disclosures sic 600, 900
Rice (the only Southern producD. 100000
Iron and metals. ................ 100000
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s20,OOO,OOO
While here we have only one article, rice,
from the South, VIC have four articles to the
value of sixteen millions of dollars which
should be supplied to her by the Northwest and
| New England; yet, owing to the prevailing sys-
TEN of tariffs between the two countries, not
FIVE per cent of either of those articles except
| lumber and fish, are supplied to her from this
! country. None of our cotton or woollen
manufactures 60 there, when proximity,
superiority of product, cheapness and many
other reasons should give US the exclusive
trade. By the present political relation Of Gu
bs to the United States, New England is de-
| Al rI,otc 40 I'll
of dollars worth Of the products of her industry,
which would increase vastly from the moment
! Of the admission Of Cuba into the Union.
! A far greater result would attend the reno
| val Of the commercial barriers that now exist
! between us and Mexico. We have no trade with
that country worth calculating, while every Gle
| ment Of her industrial existence demands free
exchange of products We will take only one
| Of these elemcnts--her mineral wealth. The
mines of Mexico during the latter part Of the
| last century yielded as follows
/ From ITO to l779. sl6j, O00, 900
! From 1880 to 1889. ............ 1874 000, 900
! From 1890 TO 1929 .............. 23l ,000, 900
/ Total. ............... ..SbOO,OOO.OOO
I Before the first decade OF the present century
/ expired she became involved in civil war, from
which she has never since been free, and her
! production of the precious metals has gone on
| decreasing continually. In addition to this
cause Of industrial decay the high price of
/ quicksilver, necessary for the extraction of the
metals from the ores, has tended against her.
/ This has been removed by our Development
! of the quicksilver mines of California.
( from whence it can be supplied at much lower
! rates than ever before known. All that Mexico
| now wants is our guarantee TO the stability Of
/ her government and an industrial union with
us and she will produce far more wealth than
I California ten times over. In return, she will