The daily union., 1852-05-13

any other nation. have knowledge OF, and entire
confidence ~ the genius, the enterprise and lndomilsoe
superiority OF the American mechanic and sr,oan My
avocauons and ayore pursuits have brought me INTO
personal. familiar and confidential contact with them
honor and respect them; and speak with confidence
founded knowledge when say that they superior
10 those of any nation age and say. furthermore, thai
the interests OF country in all those great pursuits N
which are closely pressed with the rivalship o
other nations enjoying the benefit OF cheap labor and
more abundant capital, may bc safely intfusted TO their
hands. But then you must give them the advantages
which own resources supply In the cheap raw ma
teTals of coal and iron. This you can readily do. You
have only TO adopt the home valuation, or to assess
this county BY doing this you will violate principle
OF the constitution no pecep OF the resolutions OF 79S
You will only be obeyng The dictates OF enlarged pa
triotism. Do but this and you will rekndle your forge
fres and reopen your work shops and our constituents in
New Jersey AMI Pennsylvania and all the country,
will once hear the merry ring OF the anvil Do but
this, and no foreign steamer Engsh nor French,
nor Russian will scream the hoarse notes OF defiance on
your coast in your harbors Do but this and you will
put ulcrum in the hands of the American mechanics
by means of which they will move the world.
Sir, that they superior has been proved over and
over again let the following extracts from newspaper
received this morning be added the proofs has been
proved by our clippers, whose unparalleled voyages
round the world have recently asonsbed Europe II has
been proved by the speed and superiority Of The Collins
line OF steamers and has been proved by the glorious
victory OF the yacht America:
hs London Paps5 % says NJ 1ye American SRpsr built
%ander has reeeny arrived I he East India docks Lon
don, Canton having made Of the extraord
valuable cargoes of perhaps ever
entered the port London having on board no fewer an
nearly fourteen thousand burde the size oour largest
Indamen, and built Salem, Massachusetts, in the
Hong Kong, and sailed from Wompoa near Canton the
5h Of January made tho passage TO lava IN seven days
for several days, with light trade wnd and made the Cape
wnS, s & ae aas dok Of
Dungeness the ih OF April making passage from China
to the pGw1s IN ninety dsy p the
she the strong easery winds the chan
mel sne woId have @ accom- the voyage several Gay
the chops OF the channel to reaching the river while
lance The Witch Of the Wave i, The Object Of much in
she lies in the dock. Her bows similar u
she sailed around the world in ten months and BALI in
Guiding loading and dschaging at the above ports, The
age to London, was three hundred and thy.egh miles"
Another paragraph is in these words:
"Quite sensation been created in the English COM
mercIn world by the arrival of the American clfpper.shp
from Canton the Downsthe shortest passage record
Up this perioahe British have retained nominal ad
vantage in the navigation Of this of their traders
having accomplished the distance in few days shorter
than any American Or other craft; but BY hi, recen,
achievement Of of our clipper fleet their last dream OF
fancied superiority has been dispelled."
And another is as follows:
THE YACHT AMERICA PARLIAMENT Colonel Peel |
in recent discussion Of the navy estimates in the Brush
House of Commons, took occasion express his surprise
that word had been said in the circu-
stance Of foreign yacht having come to England and in
Queen herself beaten some Of the crack
English sailing vesses That, Colonel Peel sad appeared
yacht and described the horse OF the ocean
Colonel Peel confessed that he wholly ignorant of
Of horse racing and be aers himself that he could appre
cate such EXPRESSION the blue riband of arf
qualities orthe yacht Colonel Peel declared hs
il such defeat had been sustained by the English sailing
vessels at the Isle Of Wight there sportsman
in England but would 20 to any expense back
The lost aursls Colonel Peel that part his
creed that Britannia rules the but what became
Of the goddess the day which he alluded he could
must surely have done with downcsst look Colonel
Peel's remarks were received with cries of hear, hear.
| have alluded to those great sources of national
nsced with the defence Of The country few more words
relation to them may be amiss II has been those
products OF her soil which have chiefly made Great Brit
battles OF despotism in Europe. These The con-
queros OF Napoleon. They indispensable for de-
fence If not Tor national existence. The nation which
possesses them in the greatest abundance and pro-
duce them the cheapest, must excel all others They
are infinitely more important now, elements OF ma
tona greatness and power, than before The race
pends upon their respective facilities for the of steam
Steam the is TO fight the battle OF supremacy
there; and steam on land-in the factory, and on the
railroads. TO decide the question of superiority in all
the diversified pursuits OF human life
Sir, should look 10 them; we have them in abund. i
apce There, IN the mountains Of my native State.
and OF her neighbo and sister, old democratic Pennsy
vania, the weapons with which alone your victory
can be achieved. There the materials from which
your thundebolts must be fabricated There s the ar
mory from which TO cothe your warriors in an invnci-
BILE panoply Strike the rocks OF these pregnant noun
ians and streams OF victorious legions will come forth
al your bidding There slumber the unfoged letters of
the You have but 10 fabrcae them from the ma
terals there aboundng, and you may fling your chains
upon old oceans name a, will, and then you will need
no bulwarks-no towers along the steep.
But may be told, in advocating the policy OF encour-
aging the promotion OF the production OF iron, am run
ming counter the principles OF my party Sir Weld TO
no in my sense OF abiding obligation, while repre-.
democratic State 10 faithfully adhere 10 the demo.
cratic standard OF faith. But surely no one can Justly
of not being true to the democratic party
while act accordance with the often princi
pies OF Andrew and OF the old democratic Penn
syvania There nothing in the democratic creed which
orbds encouraging the promotion OF that which essen
tal to national defence Democracy, in my estimation
does not consist in giving Withholding a per cent
above or below the average revenue duty God help the
democracy measured by such sandardl With me it is
the first duty which acknowledge provide for the ma
onal defence. II was this elevated view OF his duty
which impeled the great Chatham say that he would
not permit America to manufacture hob-nail Sir
hope the period is not distant when the cheapness OF
American iron and coal will not permit Great Britain to
manufacture hob-na for us, or for any market where
we can compete with them equal terms Democra-
cy, as understand, has immediate reference 10
the conslructonaof the powers OF the government,
rather than to the huctuating policy OF dscrimn.
ating respecting the imposition OF duties. That must
be controlled by questions of expediency-by the
changing notifications OF the commercial and re-
sirctive policy OF other countries But is in the con-
structon OF the powers OF the government where democ.
racy has itself the bu wak of the