Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-01-19
; o. F, IATTINGLY, Publisher.
RECIPROCITY TREATY.

o. IA ssed the Home kesolutinn, requesting tne
q. President to give notice to the British Gov
. srnment, Of the Abrosa.iou Of the so-ealled
Reciprocity Treaty with the Canadian Prov
faces. One year m".. elspse after the notice
p. y, given. before the terms Of the Treaty cease
70 be binding, aud for that length Of time
We must submit To all the hardships it i'm.
< poscs upon ~. Whist those hardships are is
-. tolcrsbly we'll known to most Of our citizens
-, engaged IN tho coal trade in this County
For more than ten years. the coal Of Allcg"ry
County has met in the Eastern markets, the
produce Of the mines Of Nova Scotia. under
conditions Of grent disadvantage. The Pieton
Coal 10 the ouy real competition Of the Ale
sasy County Mines, for We do not regard the
Authrasits " Psnnsylvanis As competition
y. all. Like ours. it is bituminous and used
sSr purposes where Anthracite does not answer.
B>iur admitted free Of duty under the treaty.
Of course it's competition in the Eastern mar
ksss with our coal was direct. and the location
Of The mines relatively low price of mining
and the cheapness Of the coastwSe freights
rave it an advantage which was rapidly sx-
Guiding tho Maryland coal from oil the mar
ksss Of New England. The annual importa.
zion Of Pictou cual under these circumstances
had risen TO above three hundred thousand
IONS per annun. and very nearly that large
saount would have been supplied by ". had
the Nova Scotia coal paid the same duties at
shs Custom House as that from England.
What reciprocal advantages this country ever
derived from this great concession, We have
never been able to determine. We have
doubtless had the privilege Of sending our
coal to the Provinces. free Of duty, but We
might Is we'll ship it to Newcastle itself. A
. sountry like Canada, and the Provinces,
sbounding in Coal mines and dense forests Of
their own were hardly likely to draw their
fuel from Maryland and Pennsylvania. On
the other hand, such of our productions as
arc peculiar to eur soil and climate were
heavily taxed on their introduction iuto Can
ada. Tobacco, Rice, Sugar were all met in
imports. Under the operation Of the Treaty
the Canadian duty on Maryland tobacco rose
from three to ten cents pound, and the rigid
i,v with which it was enforced was worthy
Of the Mother country herself A ds;in.
guished Maryland gentleman and planter.
told us, that while travelling in Ca:a1a fow
summers ago he was made to pay this duty
on the triHing quantity he carried with him
for his own use Of his own raising, and doubt
q le.. thought himself fortunate to escape with
out being subjected to punishment as SNUG
lar. The Report to the Senate Of the United
States made las. wintcs BY Commissioners
appointed to examine into the workings Of
,his Trsaty, is full Of like glazing instances Of
the entire absence of anything like Reciprocity
in its operation. We bellows therefore. that
the Treaty ought never to hive been made
aud doubtless never would have been, but for
the diminanec in our National Counsels. at
the time, Of the FREQ Trade Locofocos,
ID whose main object seemed to be to break
down every branch Of Ameaican industry,
except raising cotton by slave labor.
s1 In tho meantime our condition and circum-
stances have totally changed A mighty re-
bslRon. and the gigantic exertions f,he Gov.
ernment to suppress it. have plunged the
nation deeply into debt. A burden Of taxa.
.ioo. xeigbty. thorough. searching; such rs
was never dreamed Of on this Continent ha.
become absolutely necessary. to maintain the
National existence The GOAL trade in CON.
mon with every branch Of productive indus.
try is charged with its full share of the heavy
lo,d. I no mining, tho transportation. the
selling, arc all taxed. and all American coal,
wherever produced within the limits Of our ju-
,isdiction, must payi it. The customs and duties
are levied upon all importntions and a con-
siderable revenue is derived from that source
d ONLY coal from the British Province. i. free
No duties at the Custom House are levied
upou this favored product. no sxciseman
o susges the quantity. no license fee is required
from the Nova Scotis dealer. In country
grcaeiDg in the sgonies Of civil war, bent
70 the very ground beneath The burdens upon
its industry. the lucky Blue nose stands erect
10 the midst Of il all. brings his coal. cheaply
mined. and safely frcighted to our shores.
tfor tho British Flag il yet respected BY the
pirates the British people have 10, loose upon
us) and drives our own taxed predictions,
from our own markets: And bear in mind
..hstit is no friendly people 10 whom 70 grant
isbsss privileges, but oes which from the very
stsatuuing II our civil war. has uniformly and
constantly insulted and abused us. No poo
DE on sarih. has exulted over our dissr'sscs.
snd rejo;sed over our approaching dissola,ion.
- ia, Lad .ad believed. like ibis They
q .5le4ssssdss ,ssteecd our cresn:e. 10
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