Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-02-05
GREAT AMERICAN WORK
ILLUSTRATED WITH
3 and 400 Engrayings.
sgni ericGn Journal of Scien.
flHc and useful En0irIedpp

80 numerous are The productions OF the
~ Press, IN this period of cheap literature.
that an lnlividuHl who proposes tn nahaan
tney conld whip, and could not get out Of the
way OF any thing that could whip them |
knew that the projectors were ashamed Of
the experiment knew that immense sums
OF money had been thrown into mud and
water upon certain "water-halls" | knew
that certain grand Improvements upon our
guns, reducing their weight from that.uei
known standard of experience and science,
200 pounds Of metal to the pound of ball
the chimera of medium guns, had ruined in
a great measure, our naval ordnance
| got the report OF the inspector Of naval
ordnance into the House the very last night
of the session through my friend the Hon
VIM. Cost johnson, " no made the report on
establishing a national foundry. The re-
port had been made TO the Board of Navy
Commissioners for more than twelve months,
and had never been communicated to Con-
gress, because, | presume. it exposed some
OF the chimeras of the Department, and
shows how the sixty-five millions have in
part been expended From the report |
knew that about $50 of the guns Of the Ma
w were unfit for service, and they are now,
many of them, on board your vessels Of war.
The men are afraid of them | knew that
/, would take from six 10 twelve months to
get our ships and vessels of war in ordinary
afoat Concerning the War Department |
knew that scarcely one of the old ioftifca-
lions which were left dilapidated by the last
war was in a state of repair Witness the
facts exposed during the debate that very last
night otthe session in relation to Font Nj Hen
ry, near Baltimore, and the works on the Gulf
Of Mexico | knew that notwithstanding
more than twenty-siX millions had been ex-
pended on building, or rather on commenc-
ing to build, Qualifications since 1920, not
one scarcely OF our new Notifications was
completed. | say commencing to build"
because the system has not been one of de-
fence, ii has been one Of electioneering to
scatter Government patronage Instead of
completing those commenced before others
are begun, as many congressional DISTRICTS
as possible are given taste OF the Treasury
pap and the works begun and incomplete
are left to the necessary injury of delay, and
TO the tender mercy Of any enemy who may
choose to capture them. Your own forts
are now exactly in the condition either to be
blown up, or to be turned upon yourselves.
Witness Old Point Comfort and the Rip
Raps KNEW, sir, that with the most ex-
tended coast Of any people on the face of the
earth, on the Gulf on the Atlantic, and on
the Lakes TO be defended, we had not fort
in readiness for any emergency, near or
aar off knew, according to information
from the Ordnance Department, it would
take twenty years at the present rate OF APP
preparation, one hundred thousand dollars
only per annum, or, in other words pre-
sent appropriation of two million of dollars,
for armament of Notifications alone knew
we had but three safe foundries in the entire
eastern section of the country at which ord
nance can be cast knew that casting of
ordnance was no light job. and two millions
worth was not to be cast in day. | knew
that from Florida 10 Maine there was not
single fort which could mount twenty guns
knew that there were no gun carriages
Witness Fort Washington, the guard ofthe
pass to this Capitol, which has once been
burnt, has not a gun on its ramparts And
in addition to all this, knew that French
Minister tGsnors! Beynsrd) knows our c0l.