Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-06-10

important consideration at that time, for
none of the Republics were then engaged
in ship-building, though since, they have
built many and good vessels.
We'll, what was the practical result of
tbs act Of our beraty? have said that
before 1927 the number of vessels engaged
in the trade with these Republics amounted
10 so during the year; it fell in a few
wears to %; and in regard to the tonnage
Of the two countries from 1881 to 1896,
three. sevcnihs of il was in American YES.
sells and four-scveuths in Bremen; from
1886 to 1910, onc.iifih we're American and
fDur-ffths in Bremen vessels. In 1914
there entered the United States from the
Hanse Towns 90 foreign vessels and 55
American. There departed from the Uni
ted States to the IIanse Towns 1877 foreign
vessels and As American The imports and
exports exhibit summary perfectly con
f0rmable tn the relative numbers of the
vessels. You perceive, gentlemen, that
great advantages have hence fallen to these
cnterprising people, against whom ] GER
tainly have no i'll will, but against whom !
would, nevertheless, protect this country in
MI that is proper and just In the first
place, they may buy vessels in the Baltic or
elsewhere, or build them at home; and they
can build them cheaper than we. In the
British Provinces here vessels can be built
for half as much as in Massachusetts,.
Take them to Bremen, and they become
Bremen vessels. and come to the United
States in possession of all the privileges
of United States vessels. You can't make
an American ship out Of ship of the
Baltic; to be an American vessel she must
be American built. But these people may
buy a vessel where they please, and give
it that character. and it has the character
and all the advantages of a Bremen ship.
Why do we grant TO their shipping advan-
tages which we deny to our own?
have before me one or two statements.
which beg leave to read as they are
short According to the exhibit Of to-
bacco shipped from this port for the city Of
Bremen between 1911 and 1919. the whole
amount shipped was $1,000 hhds.; of this
Bremen vessels carried $4,000, and Balti-
more 5000 applause loud and contin-
ued) And be it remembered, gentlemen,
land | will not detain you many moments
longer,} that these vessels carry their goods
not only cheaper than ours, but with still
another advantage: their credit enables
them to engage for transportation goods to
convey from one port Of our own coun-
try to another: that these vessels from Bre-
men have the liberty, not only of trading
between their own ports and ours, but of
taking our own products from port TO port,
of beginning at the passamaquoddy and
terminating at the Sabine river, if they
choosel If we 90 to claim our share OF
their carrying trade, we can 20 from Bre-
men to lIamburgh The real operation of
this arrangement you know better than ];
but | know that these vessels do underbid
our vessels in freight in every part of the
world. Hence, during three or four months
of the present year" from the port of Bal
tim0re, the great article of traffic, the
article Of which Baltimore seems to be the
natural mart. since there seems to be a
great probability that it will flow thither
from the Mississippi and all the country
along its borders, so that Baltimore will
meritedIy be It's place Of expectation as it
comes through the Ohio river and the canal
to this place--this article seems destined
to become the great article Of sale for this
city for foreign expectation, Suppose it
does--who shall carry IL
applied to the Collector of your city
to-day for the statistics of this Port, from
the lst of January to this day-May l6
lSl3--and the proportion between exports
in American vessels and those in foreign
vessels was as 30 to PA decided supe.
riority of foreign vessels to those of our
own country,
Gentlemen, will here relieve you from
these statements any farther. But let me
dcduce from them one general and import.
ant truth We are destined to act in the
world the part of great mercantile, mari
time nation. We have no inferior game
to play. 1t is no assumption TO say that
in whatever constitutes national power
national character, or national HOPE, we arc
at the head of the nations on this great
continent. 1t is no assumption to say
either, that in whatever respects commerce
and the seas, and the character exhibited
on the seas for national defence or national
glory--we may have rivals-Bur WE AID.
NIT NO SUPERIOR! applause, deafening
and long contInucd)
What becomes Of us them How are VIC
to maintain our National responsibility
resting as we must on our NatiOna
strengthen the contest that may arise be.
tween the vigor Of our own arm and the
vigor ofthat arm that may be raised against
u.s.
How are we to do this without founding
for ourselves a wise, cautious, compre
hensive policy, not marked on the one hanc
by narrOwness or mcanness Of spirit--nol
on the other by an excessive and fOolisl