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In the mean time, the cultivation of sugar and coffee in 

 Louisiana, Cuba, the Brazils, and other Foreign Tropical 

 countries, receives considerable impulse, excites a distress- 

 ing energy in the Foreign trade in slaves, and invigorates 

 the Foreign marine, particularly the marine of the United 

 States of America. 



The vast supplies of Tropical produce demanded by 

 the Northern and Southern divisions of the globe (chiefly 

 by the Northern) are derived either from the British 

 dependencies in the West, the British dependencies in the 

 East, or from Foreign territory in the West or East. 



The opposing and rival interests which spring from 

 tliese several sources, involve the question of the Trade in 

 Slaves, and eventually, the question of the Ascendancy of 

 Natiotis. 



In this great contest, the conservation of the Western 

 Tropical dependencies is the first object of solicitude. 

 It is more important to preserve, than to excite and create. 



The care of the Western Colonial interests is the 

 natural duty of the several States, in connexion with the 

 several colonies : not as an interest in common, but as the 

 separate interest of each State in respect of its own 

 colony. The markets of the respective countries having 

 colonies, is the only sure resource for the sale of their pro- 

 ductions, and upon the consumption of such markets, the 

 conservation of the Western colonies essentially depends. 



Beyond this boundary, the more enlarged course of 

 policy arising from the independence of the United States 

 of America, the incipient independence of the Southern 



