Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-05-14
Eiooaent Extract.

Eloquent Extract.
The following beautiful extract is the conclusion
of Senator Sewards speech, in the Senate Of the
United States upon the bill making appropriation
to the Collins line of steamers
| conjure you 10 consider, moreover, that England,
without waiting for, and am sure. without expec-
ting. so ingorious retreat part, Is completing
vast web OF ocean steam navigation based on post
age and commerce, that will connect all the Euro
pean ports, all our ports, all the South Ameri-
can ports, all the ports in the West Indies all the
ports Of Asia and Oceanica, with her great CONNER
cial capital Thus the world is to become great
commercial system, ramified bv thousand nerves
projecting from the one head at Lcndeu. \ ct stu
penduous as the scheme is our own merchants, cOnr
scious of equal capacity and equal resources and
lying experience for saccess, stand here beseech
ing to allow them to counteract its fuifiment and
ask of us facilities and aid equal to those yielded by
the British government to its citizens
While our commercial history is full Of preSa ges
of successful competition, Great Britain is sank dcep
in debt, We are free from debt. Great Britain is
oppressed with armies and costly arstocratc inst-
tutlons: industry among US is unfetered and free.
But it is contest depending not armies nor even
on wealth. but chiefly Oh Invention and industry =
And how stands the national account in these re-
spects The cotton-gin. the planning machine, steam
navigation, and electric communication-these are
old achievements. England only year ago invited
the nations to bring their inventions and compare
them together in palace OF iron and glass in all
the devices for the increase of luxury and indulgence,
England
and by chiyalrous France. but even by semi barha-
rian Russia. Not until after all the modification
which such result necessarily produced, did the
comparison OF utilitarian inventions begin. Then
countrymen exhibited Dicks anti-fricton press
a machine that raised power greater by 240 tons
than could be raised by the Brama hydraulic press,
which, having been used BY Sir John Stevenson in
erecting the tabular bridge the straits of Mena,
had been brought forward by the British artisans as
contrivance of Nnrivacd merit for the generation
of direct power
Next submitted, on behalf the two inven-
tons of ST John, the variation compass which ndi-
Gates the DETECTION Of its needle at any place.
resulting from local causes; aud the velocilneter
which tells at any time the actual speed Of the YES
sci bearing it, and its distance from the perk de-
partureinventions adopted at once by the ADMIRAL
ty of Great Britain. Then. to saynothing Of the in
geniously constructed locks invented by Hobbs
which defed the skill of the British artisans while
he opened all OF theirs at pleasure, there Bge-
lows power-oon, which has brought down ingram
and Brussels carpets within the reach of the British
mechanic and farmer. While the American plouehs
took precedence of all Others McCormick's reaper
was acknowledged to lie contribution to the agri-
culture OF England, surprising in value the cost OF
the Crystal Palace. ..
Nor dishonored in the fine arts for a
well-de~erved need awarded to Hughes for his
successful incorporation in marble of ideal Oliver
Twist, and the palm was conferred on Powers for
hiSimmortal statue Of the Greek Slave When these
our country, the yacht America entered the Thames
Skilful architects that she combined in before
unknown proportions, the elements of grace and mo-
ton and her modest challenge was reluctantly ac-
cepted and even then only for a'tenth part Of the
prize she proposed. The trial was graced by the
presence of the Queen and her court, and watched
with an interest created by national pride and ann
! bltiOn; and yet the triumph complete. g.
In the very hour Of this Of itself conclusive demon
sration of American superiority in uttatriln in
ventiOns, and in the art that leads to nautical do
mnon," further and rristible confirmation was Civ
en- by the arrival Of American clippers from India
freighted at advanced rates with shipments. con-
signed by the agents of the East India Company at
Calcutta to their warehouses in London. Such and
so recent the proofs that in the capital element
of invention, We arc equal to the contest for the su
premacy of the seas.
When | consider them. and consider our resources
o. which those of Pennsylvania, or of the valley Of
the Mississippi of California alone exceed the en-
tire native wealth Of Great Britain when I consd-
er, moreover, our yet uneliciteI manufacturing ca
p4city-our great population, already nearly equal
to that 0fthe British islands, and multiplying at a
rate unknown in human progress, by accessons
! from both the old cOntinentS when consider tie
advantages of our geographical position midway be-
tween them and when consider, above all the
expanding and elevating influence Of freedom upon
the genius of our people. feel quite assured that
their enterprise will be adequate to the glorious con-
fic if it be only sustained by constancy and perse-
verance on the part OF their government. lido not
know that shall prevail in that conflict, but for
myself like the modest hero who was instructed to
charge on the artillery at Niagara. | can say that
'w! try" and that when difficulty occurs no
greater than that which meets now. my motto
shall be the words of the dying commander Of the
! Chcsapeake-'' Don't give up the ship