The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-12-14

b IN Q more prosperous condition
% day, both politically and financially.
6anfp Domingo IL fertile and upon 10 scil
may be grown just those tropical producu
of which the United States use 20 much,
and which are produced or prepared for
market now BY Slave labor almost exclu-
sively, namely: sugar, coffee, dye woods,
mahogony. tropical fruits, tobacco. &c.
About seventy Ave per cent Of the exports
OF Cuba are consumed In the United States.
A large percentage Of the exports OF Brazil
also ind the same market These are paid
for almost exclusively In coin; legislalion,
particularly. in Cuba bsing unfavofAble
10 mutual exchange Of the products of
each country. Sugar shipped from the
Nissippi river to Havanns, can paas By the
very entrance TO that city. on IL way TO
portion Of Spain, then pay duty fixed up
on articles TO DO exported, Transferred to
Spanish vessel, and brought back almost
to the point Of starting. paying . second
duty, and still have . profit over what
would Re received BY direct shipment All
that ID produced in Cuba could be produc-
ed in Santa Domingo. II being : part Of
the United States, commerce BE-
tween that Island and the main
land would then b free. There
would then be no export duties On
shipments nor import duties on those CON-
ing here. There would be no import
duties upon supplies OF machinery, etc,
going from the States. The effect that
would have been produced upon Cuban
commerce with these advantages to rival,
il observable st Q glance. The Cnbaa
question would have been settled long ago
in favor Of free Cuba. Hundreds Of Amer.
lean vessels would now be advsnsaseously
used in transporting the valuable woods
and other products of the soil Of the Island
to market, and in carving supplies and
but scarcely settled, while it has
an area sufiicient for the profitable
employment of several millions OF people.
The soil would have soon fallen into the
hands OF United States capitalists. The
products are % valuable In commerce that
emigrants there would have been encour.
aged. The emsncipated race of the South
would have found there . congenial home,
where their civil rights would not be dis
puted, and where their labor would be
much sought after, and the poorest among
them could have found the means to GO
Thus in cases Of great oppression
and unbearable cruelty, such IS
has been practiced upon them in many
places, within the last seven years, whole
would have sought refuge In
Santo Domingo. do not suppose the |
whole race would have gone, nor 10 it de- |
sirable that they should 20. Their labor |
ls desirable. indispensable, almost, where |
key now are. but the possession OF the ter |
ritory would have left the negro master OF |
he situation by enabling him to demand |
his rights at home on pain of his securing |
hem elsewhere.
do not present these views now as q |
of . renewal of the subject |
IF annexation. but refer to it to vindlcate |
ny previous action in regard to it.
CONCLUSION.
With the present Congress my official
life terminates. II Is not probable that
,ublic affairs win ever again receive atten.
ion from me, further than as q citizen Of |
he Republic, always taking deep interes.
. the power and integrity and prosperity |
# the whole land.
fSigned) o. 3. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Dec. 5.h, 1876.