Daily American telegraph., 1852-02-02

ton Company, 5000
$1,34s,25O
Thus the people of the United States paying
this reteat establishing marine for their USE the
enormous sum Of ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND
FORTYEIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS annually.
what will they think when they learn that not Of
the steamships employed first in the private enterprise Of
their owners used in carrying the United States mails
fit for naval service but the contrary that they have
been constructed merely for the object of carrying freight
and and not with the most distant view Of their
being used for purposesi Although the immense
bonuses given these various lines Of steamers the
pretext that they to be constructed for purposes
and while they to be used in time of peace school
for young officers and to be converted into efficient
vessels when needed it is well understood by expert
enced naval officers am informed that not of these
is capable of carrying battery could withstand the
effects of broasdc discharged from her decks Such,
am informed is the opinion of the Naval Bureau of Con-
sruction and Repairs They in fact constructed for
purposes of and at only to be used in
carrying freight and passengers in which they
occupied.
But the great objection in principle to these steam lines
is that they vast monopoes sustained at the expense
the treasury of the United States against the competition of
private enterprise They magnificent schemes ases-
ing the carrying trade Of the United States upon the public
treasury They the omnpoent competitors in the bust
ness of carrying freight and passengers against all rivals
They the great protected interest in navigation and pro-
lection is extended them by huge douceurs taken directly
from the pockets Of the people If project started to
pay the propretors of the cotton mills of Lowell million
of dollars annually out of the public treasury to enable
them to undere and break down the cotton manufactures
at Manchester in this State would be bareaced
than the actual payment of larger the proprietors
of many steam lines to enable them break down all
rivals and competitors in carrying passengers freight be-
tween New York and Liverpool and New York and Cafor-
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should be borne in mind that 1t is the money of the
that has called these steamships existence
Before their keels laid the money asked for and
appropriated by Congress- and thus the fur
nished in advance for creating these very lines. What
would be said If the asked to appropriate
money from the public treasury for railroads engines and
cars the preex that in peace they could used for
carrying the nails and in they could be war
purposes-that is transporting men, arms and munitions
And yet the principle upon which money appro-
pated from the treasury for the construction of steamships
to be used by private individuals precisely same It is
unconstitutional and 1t is recognising acting upon the
principle of protection in its most mischievous form
have spoken of lines already in existence taste of
the public blood has brought upon Congress new army of
projectors At the last session of Congress- magnificent
project started by individual in Philadelphia for
lines from that city, Baltimore and Norfolk to various parts
of the world and Congress modey asked appropriate
over half million per to support it. And another
project started by certain SPECTATORS in New York for
line of huge steamships to Africa the osensbe pur
pose of carrying of emgrang negroes bringing back
emgrans from Europe to this country The sum asked for
this line $450OOo If schemes had succeeded the
people would have been taxed than per an
mum, instead Of thes they have to pay which is full
large enough And at the session the Rowland A.
aspnwall line which is making and dividing nearly
fifty cent per annum their capital stock asked for
additional compensation and got it; and the Collins line
skedfl bnItE IN nbt
from the disposition Of members Of Congress- whose willing
consences seem to regard every scheme of this kind as
proper subject for the charity Of Congress.
And at the present session. perceive projects offered both
in the Senate and House for the establishment of lines of
steamships from San Francisco China to spport which
millions more of the peoples money will asked and nm
propriaed The design of all these schemes is 10 sa
s by The aid Of the government immense and omnireut
monopoly Of the carrying trade and commerce bet,oeen o,r
Facc coast and China, in he hands Of the La,os The Hone
lands the Aspnaoaus and The C,osaeus, Of Ne,o Fork
Are these things longer to be tolerated by the pcope If
steam lines for private cmoument really although ostens
bly, for the public service be established at the expense
of the treasury why should not pay public money
for sustaining great whaling in the Pacific and Arc
tic oceans which Is of vastly greater national Importance
than the steam lines they exist inasmuch as they
add yearly wealth to the nation the nurseries
Of the soamcn who to ships In war; But who
would think Of paying out the public money for fitting out
whale shpsf And yet that would be proper and const
tonal appropriation of the public money a. those ap
preparations made for tho various steam lines which
have been quartered on the public treasury.
have this communication treated these steam Ii,o No
though they had legitimate BIRTH and had come honestly
into existence. But when the public come TO know The
ushcred into the world they will stand aghast at the
ton which prevails in high places That will be the subject
OF my next article. 1t AN OLD SALT