The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-02-06

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bebests OF private intelligence shapenea oy rs,ard
~ our navigation Before our revolution, siI' wnsn
he matter of revolution was anuer atsehsaoh ~ .ne
House of Commons, the maritime genius anu en.sllse
~ our neone WAS celebrated by the abest oil me English
writer. and statesmen II was IN me great ueoae WIN
regard to American affairs that Mt Burke pointed wn
J;r,t;on and wonder the mighty enterprise and The
miahty skill displayed By the North American navigator
He was that could go deeper into the acic circle than
any other navigator lie was that could said longer
under the burning equator than any other navigator
He il was who could do these things, and Tor do
ing them be celebrated by foreigner l say, then
il was that the genius and character OF our people
for navigation celebrated; when we were green
when we had not, nation. bu ded INTO lhe-wheh
navigation was freer than English naHgauon-.he
characteristics OF daring, enterprise OF sharp hle
ligence, which made our mariners inca carry ."ell
barks-before their barks had a ftag-fuher mo the
dangers Of the than Engands best seamen dared 10
GO that feeling, sir and the same enterprise ana
characteristics, have enabled our Atlantic friends and
brethren to build up shipping interest now, almost
equal to that OF England ITSELF although England started
obtained through the inslrumentay OF her early naVga
ton acts. ., ;. -
our people have magnhed the shipping OF this coun-
try-after all this has been accomplished without the
aid of this government by the independent and unre-
srcted intelligence and energies of our people, at the
end of all this, Congress is TO egsate about navi-
CATION! We have acts of Congress TO legisla,e
about ygatonacs OF Congress, and the legislature
ton be fostered and fed out of the public treasury
companies TO take bread and meat, flour and beef and
cotton, between New York and New Orleans We go
now, when our navigation has thus grown up without
aid and in defiance OF our negligence, to drive the
whole of these entersng merchants out OF the coasng
trade, by establishing monopoly, paid out OF our public
treasury We using the taxes of people 10 estab
lsh monopoly favor of individuals against the enter
prise of people, themselves engaged in commerce and
navigation That is what we are doing SIR Now, SIR
the quicker we can get out OF this business the better
Our whole mail, throughout the United States, in all It's
notifications, is carried between sixteen thousand post
Offices for about two millions and third OF dollars; and
the last year applied than half that to carry
five mails from two points in our own country to four
points in foreign countres and the very year that
gave this we struck down two hundred and ninety
post Offices from among the people IN those regions where
the poorest part Of population ive-where the proX
unity to post office what is great thing to them
the loss Of days labor.
With these ocean mail routes the idea OF naval defence
is absurd and preposterous That this government
would employ four corporations TO defend them The de-
fence ntrusted four New York incorporated companies
embracing some twelve fifteen men! And sir, what
is more am told that some OF these steamships, when
put the test to perform their duty, reeed under the
weight of an eighteen FOUNDER and could not take It
where the government OF the United States authorized 1t
be taken They required. by this contract to be
capable OF being converted into steamers OF war OF the
first class; and steamer of war OF the first class
will carry several guns. each carrying ball OF
100 pounds in weight-yes, sir 100 pounds in weight
Yet these steamers, of them, understand, reeed
and staggered under eighteen FOUNDER and had to send
word to the government that they could not carry any
stand that how would it bear the conclusion of 49,
FOUNDER upon its decks? The violated Where
Is your remedy You have got none The Postmaster
General in his present report informs you that one con-
tract believe the Bremen onehad been violated, and
advises you to raty the violation. So much, then, for
these ocean steamers For the present search of
some other information which shall have occasion to
introduce. probably when another subject shall be up
Something said the other day, sir, with regard to
the newspaper press The senator from Connecticut labor
ed hard convey the impression that wanted take the
public press of the country under the and covert OF
The country When asked him. sir, if he charged me
with having said he said but that he had right to
infer it. Perhaps man may have right TO infer some
thing from proposition but he has no right to inter an
acknowledgements whatever The senator who is voting
TO foster this ocean mail route SYSTEM likewise votes
foster the New England manufacturing system He
votes to waste the money upon ocean mail routes and
then votes TO collect it through the instumenaty OF
high and an exceedingly oppressive tariff Now, SIT,
suppose this fact he cannot deny. for he voted previously
against the democratic party upon the TART, Of 1G
man associated with that party. Tie spoke, SIR with
bitterness and venom that l never heard any
man who calls himself wing, the other side OF
the chamber, employ against the democratic party.
No, sir. Under the preext OF differing from the
party that ground he let's loose the full Hood OF
indgnity) towards the whole democratic party. No
wonder then, that l. sir. should come in for part OF his
displeasure: ne wonder No. sir it is with no regret
that | do it. shall always be proud OF the missiles
of a man who is the enemy OF the democratic party
shall Triumph in knowing that the object OF assault
by the enemy of the democratic party And no matte
from whom that assault comes whether it comes from
man who under the influence of public motive
or of private one whether he be senator, prompted
by HE consideration or hrelng in the employ OF
forgetting corporation, shall always be proud OF III
malice.
stand up, sir, for this proposition; and stand up TO
it for great, high political reasons because feel, slr
that no be better spared from this country than tina
which levy upon the intelligence OF the people
and upon their right to read Hook upon the newspaper
look upon them as being the great medium of commu
nication, without which public liberty could not subsst
and hold il to be ill becoming us, who stand here IN
representative character to withhold anything that sha
increase the chances of the people to look upon on
conduct 1t is for these high political reasons tina
L stand up here; and it is to claim that this govern
ment-not that it should take any particular body Q
men under its care, bu: that it should relieve tn
whole community from in single particular. / sal
TO the newspapers, because know, sir, nearly all tn
mails which fall under the influence of this amendmer
pass over ross-roads made by the local population OF tn
neghbohood and kept them in repair and you have tn
OF them all without remuneration say that is III
equvalentan ample capitalization this little eXempo
OF tax upon the all important article OF public intelligence
Having done that sir knew full wel--for am not 8
green in legislation not to know that nothing but
mighty power could dsengage this government frsm IN
system of ocean mail routes-when the system hi
started I knew it would run into these excuses.
knew that 4; would run into these extremes. An
we have before Congress, petitions for enough
these mail routes five millions OF dollars pr
annum. They have assumed an organic form Jobbn
has become systematic. There two legislatures !
session in this Capol-the legislature within, and on
outside Congress We the inside Congress. Their
is in the city an outside Congress- where these jobs al
egsated into shape and we do very little but pass the'