rty to all mankind.

The divers products and fabrics of Africa and of our Union invite
reciprocal commerce. We want her gold, coffee, ivory, dyestuffs, and
numerous raw materials of manufactures; and she wishes our fabrics,
engines, agricultural implements, breadstuffs, and provisions. The trade
will give immense and profitable employment to our shipping. From the
Cape of Good Hope to the Mediterranean, from the Atlantic to the Red sea
and the Indian ocean, Africa is tropical or semi-tropical. She has most
of the products of the East and West Indies. She can produce cheaper and
better cotton than any other region, except our Southern States, to
which, from their fertile soil, and climate favored by the Gulf Stream,
free white labor will eventually give us, substantially, a monopoly of
that great staple. She equals any country in the production of sugar,
coffee, and cocoa. In palm oil and ivory she has almost a monopoly. Of
spices, she has the clove, nutmeg, pepper, and cinnamon. Of dyes and
dyewoods, she has indigo, camwood, harwood, and the materials for the
best blue, brown, red, and yellow colors. In nuts, she has the palm, the
ground, the cocoa, and the castor. In gums, she has the copal, senegal,
mastic, India rubber, and gutta percha. In fruits, she has the orange,
lime, lemon, citron, tamarind, papaw, banana, fig, grape, date,
pineapple, guava, and plantain. In vegetables, she has the yam, cassado,
tan yan, and sweet potato. She has beeswax and honey, and most valuable
skins and furs. In woods, she has the ebony, mangrove, silver tree,
teak, unevah, lignumvitae, rosewood, and mahogany. She has birds with the
sweetest notes and brightest plumage, and fish and animals in the
greatest variety. There are the giant elephant, rhinoceros, and
hippopotamus. There the lordly lion roams, the monarch of his native
forest, as if conscious of furnishing robes for royalty and symbolizing
the flag of a great nation. Where animals of such sagacity, courage,
power, and majesty are found, why should not man be great also? Our
ancestors, the Britons, were once savages; so were our Celtic and Saxon
forefathers, and most of them were slaves. What are their descendants
now? Let Shakespeare, Newton, Fox, Burke, Pitt, Peel, Washington,
Wellington, Franklin and Hamilton, Madison and Jefferson, the Adamses,
Webster, Clay, and Jackson answer the question. I am hopeful of complete
success; but whatever the result may be, we owe to ourselves,