The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-13
Our Relations with Brazil-Mr. Meude's Adj
dress 20 the Emporsr.

There are no two countries in the world that
present go great an identity of social and polti-
cal sympathies combined with great reciprocity
If material interests as the two leading Powers
OF America-the United States ana Brazil. IL
their social organization they hold to the same
forms. while nearly all Of the other leading
civilized Powers are endeavoring to retrace the
erratic steps they have taken, in removing the
barriers between the superior and the inferior
races. In their political development and ten
denotes they exhibit great similarity, and are
pursuing nearly Identical paths Of territorial
expansion. We are somewhat the older Power,
but Brazil is treading in our footsteps. At
this moment che lie agtsted with the same ques-
ton OF fluyial rights that at the beginning Of
the present century stirred the Valley of the
West and is endeavoring to open the Parana
and Paraguay rivers a. we did the Mississippi
In the production and consumption of the
staples of industry there is the greatest reci-
procity between US. We produce grain and
cotton and largely consume sugar and coffee
while she produces the sugar and coffee and con-
sumes largely -four and the fabrics Of cotton.
These are the points taken up 10y Mr.. Meade,
our new Minister to Brazil, in his address to the
Emperor on presenting his credentials, and
which gave him the occasion to make some
thing more than q mere formal speech. His
address, though short, presents q view Of the
true position of the two countries with the skill
and foresight Of statesman. Reminding the
Emperor that his mission was simply one Of
courtesy and ami;y, for there are no vexed
questions to arrange, no claims on either side
TO be settled, his only desire would be to add
increased activity and vigor to the trade and
commerce between the two countries; and he
closes with graceful allusion to the similari-
ty Of constitutional organization. and the iden-
tity Of political and social sympsthies that will
inspire common policy and lead 10 a unity of
action and sentiment in the future. This is the
true spirit of civilized diplomacy, and the
reply OF the young Emperor was in accordance
with It,
With such beginning We anticipate no very
difficult tack for Mr.. Meade In hi. diplomatic
labors, though they may be such AZ will be pro-
ductve of the greatest results TO our industrial
interests There is but one other community
IN tnt Wcfiu tndt prt-enlr the same reciprocity
Of interests with us as is presented by Brazil.
Cuba has a similar social aud industrial
organization. but though she lies immediately
upon our shores a jealousy discriminating and
restrictive tariff excludes our cereals and cot
ton fabrics from her markets aud Expresses
both consumer and producer. A little wisdom
on the part of Brazil may change the current
Of the fifteen or twenty millions balarce of
trade that We pay annually to Cubs into her
own Golfers We excel in the making Of the
coarser cotton fabrics which Brazil requires TO
clothe her slaves and we give her nov better
-four than she can get elsewhere. while we are
ready to pay the highest price for her sugar
and coffee The market which she has opened
for cur -four has given her almost the monopo-
ly of our Coffee trade; a like course on her part
towards our cotton fabrics and machinery viii
render her equally supreme in our sugar trade.
There are some incongruiiies in the tariffs
which by a little wisdom can he easily re-
moved: and We hope that before the term of
Mr.. Meades miseion shall have expired they will
be swept away. and the commerce OF the two
countries put upon permanent basis of pros
porous increase.