The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-08
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| To THE EDITORS OF THE EXCHANGE:-
GemHemeR-I have read with some surprise your
| comment on my communication in reply to your
correspondent c., denouncing the bill toincorporate
"The Central African Society,"" now pending before
the Legislature. As to the character and motives
of your correspondent you are, of course better
qualified to judge than !, for you know who he is,
and do not. | accept your assertion that he is
not actuated by the motives which imputed to him
but it is apparent that he has grossly msrepre-
sented the purpose and scope of the BILL and in do
! ing so, has grossly assaied me, who am responsible
! for the bill, although am in nowise interested in
it, further than, a citizen of the United States
am interested in any and all measures which will
increase our commerce, which will aid in riddine
us of free blacks. Whether his representations be
ignoranty or malicously made, / hold that you as
the conductors of free press, bound to permit
any one who has been unjustly assailed through
your columns to your paper to repel the assault
This courtesy is due to any one, however humble,
and in this it is due to the members of the Lee
gisature before whom the bill is pending, and es-
pecially to the committee by whom the bill was re-
ported, well as to Mr. Bowen and myself
You too, as well as your correspondent, denounce
the bill as a "MoNoPoLY." l have too much expe-
rience an Editor and know too well, that in the
haste of composition, we often words without
due consideration and therefore cannot believe that
you will seriously contend that the bill, if passed.
will create ''monopoly."
Webster defines monopoly" to be:
1.-The sole pOoer of vending any species of goods
obtained either by engrossng the articles in market
by purchase, or by license from the government,
confirming this privilege. Thus the East India
Company in Great Britain, has a nonopoIg of the
trade to the East Indies, granted to them by char
ter"
Now if YOU will examine the bill, you will see that
it does not propose to give exclusive, or '.sole
po~er" to trade with Central Africa, and therefore
twill not create monopoly. Thelegislature have
no power to grant such monopoly They cannot
prevent any one from trading with Central Africa
and a moments reflection must convince You, that
you have done Mr.. Bowen and me great injustice by
charging that he seekso that advised him. to ask
monopoly oftrade Hequotes McGregor to,show that
the tobacco used by the English in their trade with
Western Africa is worth $4,000 900 per annum, and
that the trade with Morocco is worth SlO,OOO,OOO
per For a Company, of $4,000 900 to
monopolise such a trade is impossible.
So far from wishing to get monopoly Mr.. Bow
en- has urged in lectures in sermons in letters, in
essays and in his book well in a memorial to
Congress, the Importance of the trade to Central
Africa, as means OF aldlng the cause OF cOl0nlZa-
ton and of christian missions, in Africa. He is a
missionary and not trader He does not seek to
become trader in Africa or elsewhere Nor do |.
But agreeing with him that the trader should go
with the missionary and believing that under a
charter he could induce Others to invest the requi
site funds to open valuable commerce, | advised
him to ask the charter. He is now in New York,
publishing a Dictionary and Grammar of the '"Yu-
robd" language, and having been his adviser, feel
called upon to take upon myself the whole respon-
sibity of the measure-not only because he is un-
justly assailed during his absence, but because it is
due to him, and to the cause of MISSIONS in which
he is engaged, to denomce as do, most unjust
and unmerited, the imputation that he has for him
self any other purpose than to promote the cause of
missions in Central Africa.
trust, gentlemen, that you will recur to his
book on Central Africa, and that you and your cor
respondent will feel it your duty to retract the i'm
putatiOns contained in your structures the bill in
question. Respectfully,
DUFF GREEN.