New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-07-06
VOLUME XIII.
Neh Orleaas DULY Crestsnt.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 0, 1860.
p1REor rRApE .yIrH EUROPE.

Net forth the claims of the city Of Baltimore as a |
commercial mart, and her facilities, more especi-
hlly, for conducting both foreign and eoastwise
nade. Baltimore, he says, is the third city in res
pect of size and population in the Union She Is |
+" on the high road to the West and also " on the |
line from New York to the South.h This cIreum- |
stance the writer thinks, coupled with other nat
ural advantages, makes Baltimore point +" admir-
ably situated for an import and export trade SUI
fcient to employ an ordinary steam service"
And he then goes on to lament the absence Of
such service at the present time, and to announce
that arrangements have been made whereby it will
soon be supplied.
All this is well enough, and we have no fault to
find with it. We would be glad to see Baltimore,
| as we would every other Southern seaport city,
engaged in direct trade with Europe. We would
be glad to see this for many commercial,
economical and political We regard it as not only
the true interest, but the imperative duty, OF all
such cities to disseyer far possible their com
| Inercial dependence upon the North, and to take
that independent commercial rank and position
which nature, by fortunate combination of cir
cumstances, has SO plainly marked out for them.
! But the writer does not stop here. He goes on
to speak OF the cs-Atlantic trade of Baltimore,
| and to Indicate certain points where it may be in
l creased. Quite unnecessarily, we think he brings
New Orleans into the argument, and in manner
which, we doubt not, will provoke smile from
| our city readers. We quote a. follows:
But it is not alone with Europe that this steam
4 communication is needed. Baltimore has an i'm
II mense trade with South America and the West In
II dies Her trade with Texas is growing rapidly.
4 The establishment Of an United States bonded
II warehouse at San Antonio, where goods for Mexico
n can be entered aud resod to Mexico free Of duty,
\ INN tra n
Il New Orleans will take advantage OF the Mexican
4 trade. New Orleans cannot do the Mexican trade
without accepting the policy Of direct trade with
Europe as the essential basis OF such movement; ;
and the influence adverse to direct trade in New
4 Orleans will always defeat the full realization of
that measure there for many years to come. In
the meanwhile, steam line between Baltimore
and Galveston and lndanola, touching at Cuba,
would in one service supply the wants OF the Texas
and West India trade. A line from Baltimore TO
Rio would supply the wants Of the South Ameri-
can trade. And who will deny the effect that such
a service would have Look at the map and trace
the respective lines from Baltimore, one to Central
| Europe, touching at some point IN England one
1 to Galveston, touching at Havana; the other to
Rio calling at some of the important points en-
4 route! Who can deny the immense effecton trade,
on population, property, on finance, on railroad
values such coastwise and transatlantic tefTht''f
would have? If any one doubts, let him pay a
visit to New York, and there behold the visible
evidence that this world is progressing and that
ocean steamers are a necessity TO every CONNER
eal community.
Two propositions in regard to New Orleans are
here made: The first is, that New Orleans cannot
conduct the trade with Mexico without accepting
the policy of direct trade with Europe the essen
tial basis of such movement: and the second is
that :" the influence adverse to direct trade In New
Orleans will defeat the realization of the measure
-" always, I, as the writer first asserts, but at least
s.for many years to come
Touching the first proposition, we quite agree
with the writer thatdreet trade with Europe would
/, enable US to conduct the interior trade with Mex
leo and Texas much more satisfactorily and profit
ably. But this is not essential, though we admit i
to be important. But we are unable to see how
Baltimore can carry on a trade with Mexico Of
Texas more to their satisfaction than New 0rlean
can. In the first place New Orleans is a marke
for the cotton and other productions Of Texas am
Mexico, which Baltimore is not and never can be-
and it is in its reciprocal relations that trade is pro
: ftabe and pleasant So far as the furnishing 0
supplies OF all sorts to the people Of those region
is concerned, New Orleans is incontestibly in
better position to do so than any other city. TX
> suppose that Baltimore could import sugar ant
measses from this city, and the same articles, ii
addition to coffee, from our next door neighbor
Havana then send them back to our neigh
"
>, do so, involves rather curious violation as well o
the laws of trade as of the deductions of reason
There are other articles of use and consumption
it is true, besides those we have enumerated: bu
we are unable to see in what respect Baltimore
without direct trade with Europe, can furnish sue
articles more cheaply than New Orleans in til
| same condition.
But it is the second proposition of the writer tina
particularly staggers and overwhems us-namely
that there is an 20 influence in New Orleans " aG
" verse to direct trade.' If the writer had been
little more explicit and had told us what that il
"a 1uence' is, we would have been obliged to hin
AT present, we confess ourselves puzzled to knos
| what he means. II there is any such infiuenc
here, we have been unable thus far to discover i
!, We know that New Orleans received, and sent Q
Q. to Europe during the past season, about two mi
le lions of bales of cotton-worth more than on
a. hundred millions of dollars in the market of Live
pool. We know that our imports from foreig
4 countries are steadily increasing, as our Custom
H. House records will officially show. 1t is true, W
do not import TO corresponding extent with OF
exports; but we are gradually correcting all tha
and very few years will show wonderful dfe
ence. In view of these facts, we are constrained
say, that if there is any influence here adverse
direct trade, we have not only not been able to di
V eoverit but such influence must be getting weakt
- and weaker every year, if we rely upon Il
E evidence of our own senses and the official exibi
of the Custom-House.
nd There is nothing to prevent New Orleans fro
10 conducting a large and profitable foreign trad
nd nor is there anything to prevent Baltimore fro
doing the same thing. Each city has all the nat
raj advantages and facilities, wellas the capitt
requisite for such purpose-and it only renal
nd for each to employ them The same may be sa
nd of all the other cities upon the Atlantic and Il
Gulf coasts. 1t should be the first duty of Il
nc Southern seaeoast cities to to export and il
port through New York, and do these things thel
selves. After that if they choose to have friend
competition among themselves, it will do no harl
T.. So also, there may be generous rivalry in t
: struggle to supply the interior markets-and thou
we do not believe that Baltimore or any other ci
can conduct the trade with Texas and Mexico
cheaply and as satisfactorily as New Orleans ca
sts the effort may be made and should not be d
cousaged. But it is not necessary, to excite pu
: lie interest in the subject, that the commere
- capacities of this city be disparaged. Fair Co
petition and impartial justice are all that NJ
,.s Orleans asks, and she is sufficiently assured of
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