The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-07-19
that court At Washingt!on: The eyes
Of the world will be rivetted on that

that court at Washington. The eyes
of the world will be rivetted on that
Ilamentable spectacle. If the North.
ern people, in It's triumph, cannot
show mercy, the world without will
make note Of this last and greatest
Of its crimes, and remember toYrefuse
! mercy, when its turn is come, in that
day Of just and sharp retribution
which indignant Heagen will speed
on after 50 foul . murder. ID
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Our Commerce and the War.
By proclamation ofthe President,
lall tie ports OF the United States will
lie reopened to the commerce Of the
world on the lst Of July next; and by
the time of the assembling Of Con-
gress in December we ought to be in
a. position to judge with some ap.
proachto accuracy what prospect we
have ofsrecovering, and at how early
a date, The great movement Of com
mercial prosperity from which we
were SO rudely diverted four years
ago by the outbreak of the great civ.
il war.
The revelations Of the coming six
months should help us, too, toward
IN approximate estimate of the meas
IRE in which the restrictive policy
Of New England, 50 hastily and so
passionatey adopted by the Repub.
Llican majority,in Congress, has CO.
operated with The. influences of the
war itself to Cut. down our marintine
Importance. S..
| We think it will eventually be
proved to the satisfied ofsall candid
minds thatsthe Molri,i tariff has done
US incomparably more damage than
Iall thecruisers of the Confederate
Estates; but, without dep..tipgs this
pointsat present, we desire now sim
Iply to set before cur readers the re.
sultssof the past four years. on our
commercial prosperity, as well abso-
tuiely as relatively TO the prosperity.
Of other nations uncursed byswar and
invoked BY a reactionary policy in
| point of financial and commercial leg.
islation.
In the year 1860 the commercial
movement ofthe Of the U. S. stood as
follows.
Importations. Expectations, 4
500, l22, 296 1852. lG3, Oh
making, thai is, general CONNER
cial movement Of more than S762, 900,
900. Tmeea years Of war sulliced To
reduce this movementsto a little over
$55s, 100000, divided aslollows.
Importations. Expectations
$3.50, lS7, 5S7 1881, 500, 459 /
By this fall Of about thirty per
cent in the amount of ON colllmer-
cial activity we were put back to the
point reached by us in 1855, making,
that is, just about the same progress
in a backward direction in three
years Of war WHICH it had required
len years ofspeace for us TO make
lirna forward direction. Tie, results
| Of the last year Of the war, when
fairly and fully tabulated, will show,
we think, d still more unsatisfactory
state Of things assfo our absolute
| commercial losscs nndersthe war, and
the commercial policy whicllhas pre-
vailed in consequences Of the war.
Meanwhile, what have been the ne.
suits in other countries of peace at
tended by o more-or less enlighten
Legislative progress in Tie direction
| Of the emancipation of commerce?
In the year 1860 81 the CONNER.
cial movement Of France amounted
to 4, 36S, 100000 francs, Ii round
numbers, thatsis to 1878, 100000. III
/ the year 1863 the commercial move
ment Of France amounted to 6, 1853,
! 000, 900 francs, or, in round numbers
to$l .352, 500, 600 icing nearlytwice
tile amount Of our own commerce in
1860, and not greatly less then three
1 times It's amount in 1858. In other
words while we lost thirty per cent.
Of our commerce. between lS6Oand
1868, France added nearly Ely per.
cent to hers during the same time. Il
i In tbe;year lS6l-62 tie CONNER
cial movement Of Great Britain a.
mounted to ss75, 05t, ss4, 81 in
1 round numbers, to more than $1,000
loco, 900. In 1862, the commercial
/ movement ofthe same country amour
tied to 1891, 1884,. Ito, Or, IN round
numbers, to $4,000, 900, 900, exclusive
4 Of an Importation Of specie to the a.
mount OF g5l, CSC, 476, and an expor.
.Itation Of specie to the amount ofg IS.
4 1925, 19l !. And while it is proper to
remember that the civil wal, 81 cut
ting OFF our cotton trade, must under
any system Of policy have greatly re-
i duced ourj commerce equally it IS
proper to remember that this eircum-
i stance inflicted a scarcely less severe
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