The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-17

| Prince of Peace, to think that it must only be
| accomplished by deluging the plains of all
| Europe in blood.
The New Treaty with Mexico-Its Rela.
lions to Our Commercial and Manufac-
turing IntereAts.
| Our Washington despatch informs us that the
| delay in the election of the Senate Printer is
having prejudicial effect on the public bust
ness, particularly as regards the new treaties,
which cannot be acted upon until they are
| printed, and this work can only be done by
sworn officer of the Senate.
The commercial and manufacturing sections
of the country have abundant reason to COM
plain of the little regard that is paid by Con-
| gress, and even by the Northern members of
both houses, to matters of the highest moment
to their interests. Days, weeks and months are
consumed in sterile debate on abstract ques-
ti0ns regarding the defiance of the South or
the aggressions of the North but when sub
ject of practical utility and value Is presented,
even the Northern members 60 off at tangent
on some futile issue of party politics. This is
precisely what is occurring in regard to the
two treaties with China and Mexico. Inregard
to the Chinese treaty, the matter is not Of so
much moment, as the Chinese have fortunately
begun to act upon it, and our export trade to the
Celestial Empire is going on with an activity
| never before known. Cotton goods and
| knick-knacks Of hundred different kinds are
| going out in ships from New York and Boston
| to a much larger extent than ever before
| witnessed.
But with the Mexican treaty this Is not the
case Not only with Mexico, but with our own
| Territory of Arizona, an immense traffic lies
| dormant until it shall attain the security and
facilities of transit offered to 1t by the stipula
tions of the treaty. There are now waiting in
the workshops of New York, Connecticut
Massachusetts, and Ohio, large orders for ma
chinery and goods of every description, to be
filed for Arizona as soon as the ratification Of
the treaty shall open the short land transit
from the port of Guaymas to the frontier; and
on the other hand, the silver and copper work
ings of that Territory are waiting until they
shall receive the stimulus Of cheap supplies
| from the marts of Northern industry. When
| this route alone shall be opened, the emf
| Grafton commerce and trade of the Atlantic
ports will receive an impetus similar to that
given by the opening of California; and until
the route to an ocean port is opened, the great
interests of the country cannot be developed.
| A similar result attends our general trade
with Mexico. The simple fact that our GO
vernment cannot protect the interests of our
merchants in Mexico, while that of England is
always ready to order her naval commanders
| to protect the British traders, has thrown into
| their hands almost the entire trade of that re-
| public. England is now receiving nearly
twenty millions Of dollars yearly in silver from
Mexico, In payment for cotton fabrics and
iron ware which could be better and cheaper
| supplied by Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania
! The tropical Gulf shore of Mexico also affords
| a natural and ready market for the -four, meats,
lard, oils, &C., Of the West; and yet because of
the utter want of protection by our govern
ment not q single commercial house with bust
ness connections in Cincinnati, Louisville and
ST. Louis Is to be found in Tampico, Vera
Cruz, Tobasco, Laguna, Campeachy or Sisal.
When the treaty is ratified under its present
stipulations, these establishments will spring
up as if by magic, and then twill be wondered
that 80 simple cause was not sooner seen.
There is in the new treaty with Mexico an
other element Of the highest Importance to our
commercial and industrial interests. The sti-
pulations In regard to the security Of
transit on the isthmus Of Tehuante-
pee embody the basis of all our super
transit legislation. At present the route
by Nicaragua is closed, and that across the
Isthmus of Panama is open only by suffer-
ance, because of the non settlement of our
questions with New Granada. These routes
belong to the commercial and Industrial, and
not to the political, interests of the country.
This can be seen by glance at the proper
tons Of trans sthmus travel and trade centreing
in New York and New Orleans The CONNER
cial and manufacturing interests have right
to demand, and they do demand from the 60
vernment, adequate protection for these great
interests. Too little regard has been paid in
our general legislation aud negotiations to the
legitimate protection aud stimulus of our com
| mercial interests; and now that treaty has
been made which holds them in the place of
first and highest consideration il is to be hoped
that the Senate in considering it viii remember
what is due to the commercial and Industrial
sections of the country as wildly as the Sena
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