The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-04-30

your dominion and defy your utmost persecution Per-
iecung the institutions you have not yet suffered TO pen
she VIII establish republic, the first confederate repre-
sentative commonwealth which shall in time become the
admiration and envy OF the world. France the heredi-
tay nsa whom, only twenty years ago, with the aid OF
your own colonies you despoled OF her North American
possessions though they had been by the
genius OF Rcheliea. will take revenge in aiding
The emancipation of those very colonies. and thus dis
membenng Your empire You will strike her in vain
win one hand. while you stretch forth the other 10
reduce your colonies with equal discontinue And you
even you, most infatuated yet most loyal prince, will
within eight Years, sign treaty OF peace with the royal
Bourbon and OF independence with republican America
With fraud, corruption, fire. and sword you will com
pensae England with conquesis in the East, and within
half ceatury they will surround the world and the
British nag shall wave over provinces covering five mil
lions Of square miles and containing sixth OF the
inhabitants oil the globe Nor shall you lose your retail
auon upon your ancient eneny for she in the mean
tme nbbing and noxc by the spirit OF revolution
IN her American atliation shall overthrow all authority
human and divine, and exhaustng herself by twenty
i've OF carnage and desoai throughout conf
mental Europe, shall al last succumb TO your victorious
arms, and relapse, after Intellectual struggles, into the
embraces OF an inglorious military despotsm. Yet not.
withstandng all these unsurpassed conquests and tri-
nmphs shall you enjoy no certain or complete dominion
For The other hand wild beasts and savage men and
uncouth manners shall all disappear the American
continents and The three millions whom .ou despse,
gathering 10 themselves increase from every European
nation and island will within seventy five years. spread
themselves over field and forest, prairie and m0unain
until, IN your way to your provinces in the Bahamas,
they shall meet you the shores of the Gulf of Mexico
and your return from the Eastern ndies they will
salute you from the eastern coast OF the Pacific ocean
In the meantime, with genius developed by the influence
OF freedom, and with vsor called forth and disciplined in
the subugation OF the forest and trained and perfected
in the mysteries OF shpbulldng and navigation by the
hardy pursuits OF the whale fisheries under either pole
they WILL in all European conflicts, with keen sasacity
assume the relation OF neuals and thus grasp the prize
OF Atlantic commerce dropped into their hands by fierce
begerents In The midst of your studies and expert
menis in hydraulics steam, and electricity, they will
the unpractised and even incomplete Inventions and
cover their rivers with steamboats, and connect and bind
together their widely Territories with canals
railroads, aud te!egraphs When long interval of
peace shall have your merchants, combining vast
capital, will regain and hold for time the carryiag
trade by substituting capaclous buoyant, and fleet pack
ct ships departing and arriving with exact punctuaty
but the Americans, quickly borrowing the device and
improving on your skill will reconquer their commerce
You will then rouse all the enterprise OF your merchants
and AL the spirit OF your government, and, wrestling the
and mighty power of steam from the hands of your in
hold OF the commercial and social correspondence be-
tween the two continents increasing the nations rise
to higher civilization and come into close and
intimate relations the basis OF postal revenue, you
will thus restore your lost monopoly the Atlantic.
aud enjoy It unmolested through period o ten years
During that season OF triumph you will mature and per-
feet all the arrangements for extending this mighty
device OF power and revenue connect every
island OF The and every part OF every continent with
your capital. But Just at that moment your emulous
rival will appear with steamships still more capacious
buoyani aud fleet than your own, in your harbors, and
at once subverng your Atlantic monopoly, will give
her vigorous renewal OF the endless contest for
supremacy OF all the When you thought her ex-
PEELED IRON the her flag will be in your pors
covering her charities contributed TO relieve your popula
ton, stricken by famine; and while You stand hesitang
whether To declare between republicansm and absolute
power IN continental Europe, her ambassadors will be
seen waiting on every battlefield TO salute the triumphs
OF befy and when that shall be the
same CONSTANT flag shall be in the Straits of
the Dardaneles. receiving with oyaons due TO conquer
ors the temporarily oveftbrown champions OF freedom.
Look towards Africa Thefe you American colonies
hitting her up from her long night OF barbarism into the
broad light OF liberty and civilization. Look TO the
East you see American missionaries bringing the peo
pie of the Sandwich islands into the family Of nations,
and American armamenis peacefully seeking, yet firmly
demanding, the rights OF humanity japan. Look to
ae equator ise's a are american engineers % opening pas
divides the oceans; and last oil all, look north
ward and you behold American sailors penetrating the
continent OF ice IN search OF your own daring and lost
navigaiors." f
Sir this s,upendous vision has become real All this
momentous prophecy has come TO pass The yet
lives who has both the end and the beginning OF its
fuhlment II is history And that history shows that
this enterprise OF American Atlantic steam navigation
was wisely and even necessarily undertaken 10 maintain
our present commercial ndependenee and The contest for
the ultimate empire OF the Onya word shall ex.
press the importance OF these objects International
postal communication and foreign commerce are as i'm
portant domestic mails and traffic Equality with
other nations in respect those interests as important
as freedom from restriction upon them among ourselves
Except Rome-which substituted conquest and spoation
tor commcrce-no nation was highly prosperous,
really great, truly independent. whose foreign
comm unications and traffic were conducted by other
States; while Tyre, and Egypt and Venice, and the
Netherlands, and Great Britain, successvey becoming The
merchants became thereby the masters OF the world
But The learned and honorable chairman OF the Com
miIlee Finance raises question waflike feature
OF the enterprise which has not yet come under our
notice. Departing. after the most profound considera
ton, from the naval policy which separated the
national ocean police from the national mercantile
marine, Great Britain constructs all the steamships
ployed IN her postal that they good, sub
slantia and efhcentof such model and strength TO
be l aud able 10 carry guns OF the largest cabre used
board OF her Maesys steam vessels OF and they
subject 10 be taken IN emergencies by the government nj
cost Tor the public naval And IN this way Great
Britain Is rapidly and steadily building up and pc
cular naval force, which w always be in complete
diuon and ready for effective The same principle
vas adopted in the contract with Collins and his assoc
and the evidence is complete that il has been faith
fully and fully carried out The honorable senator now
dispues the soundness OF the principle ITSELF and insists
thai merchant vessels canpot be constructed
TO be practically useful Tor martial purposes. m
reply, first. that having, such careful examination
and with such weighy example, adopted the principle
could wisely ab,ndon II without proof, b, aoii.
cal trial. long, hope, 10 be delayed, that II erroneous
Secondly. No ship-of war, however constructed, is
adapted TO all the exIgenc OF naval service while
these steamships are certainly adapted TO OF them
Com. Perry, The 18Th OF February, lS52, reports
to the Secretary OF the Navy that these steamships
tof the Collins line) may be converted, al an expense
OF $4,000 each, into Two steamers ot the hrst
class; and that each them could carry Four en.neh
Paixhsn guns pvots, fore and att OF The weight OF
those IN the model ship Mississippi and eighth Pa'x
han guns on the sides, and that this armament would
not ncommode the vessel and that IN the general
atoms OF maritime they would render good ser
wee and especially that, IRON their great speed they