There Is Only Another Circumstance Connected With The United States To
Which We Deem It Necessary To Advert In This Brief And General Developement
Of The Causes Of Their Commercial Prosperity:
We allude to the wonderful
facilities for internal commerce afforded them by their rivers, and
especially by the Mississippi and its branches.
There can be no doubt that
easy, speedy, cheap, and general inter-communication to internal
trade, - whether by means of roads and canals, as in England, or by means of
rivers as in America, is advantageous to foreign commerce, both directly
and indirectly. It is advantageous directly, in so far as it enables the
manufacturer with great facility, and at little expence, to transmit his
goods to the places of exportation; and to ascertain very quickly the state
of the markets by which he regulates his purchases, sales, and even the
quantity and direction of his labour. It is advantageous indirectly, in so
far as by stimulating and encouraging internal trade, it increases wealth,
and with increased wealth comes the increased desire of obtaining foreign
produce, and the increased means to gratify that desire.
We deemed it proper to preface the details we shall now give on the subject
of the present state of commerce with these general remarks on the
principal causes which have enlarged it, in those two countries in which
alone it flourishes to a very great extent. But, as we have already
remarked, commerce cannot extend in one country, without receiving an
impulse in other countries.
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