Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-03-29


What do you want with navy but to support and protect
your foreign commerce. You would have no foreign wars
you abandoned your foreign commerce. II is our oreIgn
and commercial intercourse that involves Us all foreign
And besides that you will have need Of fortifca
tons you abandon your commerce. No foreign Power will
come here to attack you but for the interests and relations
growing out OF your foreign trade We are no Chinese en-
pire. Our civilization il Of such nature, our
riches Of such kind that foreign nations would come 70 our
shores. and insist trading with against our viii Even
your with Mexico alleged to have grown out Of vo
aon Of your rights in your commercial intercourse with that
country Abandon your foreign commerce, or let it shift for
ITSELF and you will have for navy, nor for expensive
orfcatons studdng your coast believe that our for
tcaons alone ten twelve hundred thousand
dollars annually There is also your lighthouse establishment
for the benefit Of the foreign and the coasrg trade, costing
annually six or seven hundred thousand dollars There it,
too, your survey for the security Of your foreign and
coasng trade, which has already cost more than million
and ha which cannot be completed for less than five mill
lions, and may reach millions. Then look at your rich
marble buildings such as custom houses all your great
commercial cities the Atlantic aud the Gulf See what
vast expense the Government account Of foreign
commerce in that particular branch Of expenditure Look
the the city Of New Orleans 1t is estimated
that will cost between and three millions Of dollars
Ihs In the State whose Senators oppose this bill We
have heard much said Of the influence Of the local expend
lures proposed by this bill the minds Of its friends Here
is an object Of expenditure the benefit Of which chiefly
oyed by New Orleans The State of Louisiana and with
equal fairness that costly work may be said to have been un
deaken under the influence Of local interests You have
custom maenncent and costly buildings in all your
large cities on the Atlantic which you have reared up the
expense Of many millions Of dollars and you are still going
with the construction of Others Add the cost of these To
The millions you annually give TO the support Of the foreign
md the coastng trade, ten millions the navy million to
or6catons, hundred thousand the support Of sh
houses three hundred thousand for the survey and nee
What great and costly you take Of foreign and coast
ng trade An annual expenditure Of upwards Of twelve mil
IONS Of dollars. ~. 1s a3I 80
Then look the Of the great interior; what do
ou do for that What local general expenditure do you
aake for its beneft What is done for internal intercourse
,r internal commerce Yet how much is worth thsn
II our foreign commerce! You Cooking at Mr. EwiSe)
an assist me, sr in answeriDg this question ,s 4ge8
Mr., EWING. do not know, but !. is worth great deal
,ore--probsbly two OF three times as much. 4 III,
Mr.. BELL Two or three times - much at least and
d Senators cry out aeainsr appropriation Of seventeen
nded thousand dollars for the security and enhancement Of
rnsl commerce. for that i the proportion Of this bill which
proposed for objects in the interior suPposs this am0uat