New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-28

lions thai their stock is sold in Was At 50 ceuts
a dollar and that they would yet they cannot
dispatch another ship or mai amer he I9n OF quay mex
renovation: and so the actual loss each voyage being
in round numbers $1,000 II IS quite certain tat an in
crease less than $4,000 necessary TO keep the
| stesmers in vigorous and sure operation.
an questions Of the fairness Of this showing are pre-
cuded hy the offer OF the contractors 10 renqush the
enterprise TO the United States or to any assignee lnd
Gated by them after the contract shall have been re-
modelled and by the neglect Of any other party to pro-
pose fora contract even on the terms thus recon-
| nended.
So sir the increase OF compensation solicited Is just
and reasonable and is moreover like the increase Of the
mail service, necessary ard indispensable.
| Now, we have arrived at the very question OF the
whole question We must do just what Is proposed or
relnaush the contract altogether. The Hon )raDle
Chairman of the Committee on Finance OR Huner)
dssents from bis associates and advises that alternative
Sir with profound respect for that distinguished SEN
sor not now expressed for the first time nor for mere
effect must have his pardon, nevertheless for prefer
ring the authority OF MS associates Extreme CAUTION
apt be the fruit OF the patient and patriotic aoors Oh
lis Office An appropriation bill has seldom passed this
House without calling forth from him or his predeces
sors eloquent yet groundess alarms OF an exhausted
treasury and Of impending taxation not bankruptcy
While we cannot without wounding the national sens
bities and mpairing the national character abandon
any great enterprise equally true that indecislon
among the worst vices of the statesman and that vaci
lation in the conduct of pubic affairs is fruitful OF ma
tiona decentralization and indicative OF certain natona
decline Persistence when practicable, nvigorates ma
ona energies discourages foreign rivalry and prevents
foreign insult and aggression. Compare france-en
phtened, vigorous and energetic, but unstable as wa
ter'-wi,h administrations constant and perseyer-
ing-or even with Russia-cold and unmpassoned as
her climate yet with her eyes inmoyably and forever
fixed upon Stamboul-and you have an apt illustration
of my moral Nevertheless, these general observations
are incOncusiye, and grapple therefore, cheerfuiy
with the great question.
Ifths enterprise must be abandoned, it must be aban
doned for of two reasons, namely either because
First: enormously conceiced or-Stcoadty; IL has
seqgCRt ecents and circumstances.
Iast: Has it enormously conce1ccdl To determine
this question need to ascend some high emnence OF
time, from which we cen look back along toe past ana
pierce is allowed to human vision through the
clouds and darkness that rest upon the future Come
then, Senator'S and suppose that you are standing win
me in the galleries Of ST Stephens Chapel on day so
long gene by as the 2d of March, l775 mighty de-
bate has been going on here in the Legislature OF the
British Empire. lnsurrection against commercial re-
srctions has broken out in the distant American Colo.
MES seditious assembly in Philadelphia has organized
it. end brave unimpassioned and not untried soldier
of Virginia lies with hastily gathered and undiscpined
lines the nights OF Dorchester, waiting the coming out
OF the British army from Boston. The question whether
Great Britain shall strike concede and conciate has
lust been debated and decided Concession has been
denied. silence brief but intense Is broken by the
measured and solemn utterance of Burke My coun-
eel has been rejected You have determined TO ampe
upon and extngush people who have in the course OF
a single human life, added TO England as much as she
had acquired by progressive increase OF Improvement
brought in by varieties of civizng conquess and cviz
ing settlements in series of seventeen hundred years
Avson passed before my eyes-he spirit prophecy
l. upon Listen to the revelation OF the conse
quences which shall follow your maddened decision.
Henceorh there shall be DIVISION separation and eternal
conflict in alternating war and peace between you and
the child you have oppressed which has inherited all
your indomtabe love of liberty and all your Unsuitable
love OF power Though still in the gristle and not yet
hardened into the bone of manhood America will, with
in the short period of sixteen months cast of your do
ninion and defy your utmost persecution Perfectng
the institutions you have not yet suffered to rpen, she
will establish Republic the first confederate Represent
alive commonwealth which shall in time become the
admiration and envy of the world. France the hered
tary rival whom only twenty years ago. with the aid OF
your Colonies, you despoed of her North American
possessions though they had been strengthened by the
genius OF Richeleu, will take sweet revenge in aiding
the emancipation OF those Colonies and thus dsmem
bering your empire You will strike her in vain with
one hand, WHILE with equal discontinue you stretch
forth the other to reduce your Colonies subsection,
and you, you most infatuated yet most loyal Prince,
will within eight years sign treaty OF Peace with the
Bourbon, and OF independence with America With
fraud corruption fire and sword, you will compensate
England with cOnquests in the Eat which, within halt
century, will surround the world, and the British flag
shal wave over provinces covering i've millions OF
square miles and sustaining onesixh OF the inhabitants
OF the globe Nor shall you lose your retaliation upon
your ancient enemy for She in the meantime ilnb6ing
the spirit of revolution in her American aiaton, shall
overthrow all authority, human and divine and exhaust
ing herself by twenty five years oil carnage and desoa
ton carried throughout Continental Europe shall at last
succumb your victorious arms, and relapse after IN
electua struggles, into the embrace oil All ingioTious
military despotism.
MISUNDERSTANDING all these conquests and riumphs
shall YOU enjoy certain or complete or endlng donn-
ion For the other hand, wild beasts and savage
men and uncouth manners shall all disappear on the
American Continent and the three millions whom you
now despse, gathering to Themselves increase from
every European nation will within seventy hve years
spread field and forest prairie and mountain, until
in your passage your possessions in tire Bahamas you
shall meet them on the shore of the Mexican Gulf and
on your from the Eastern Indies they will salute
you from the Eastern coast of the Pacific OCEAN With
genius developed by the influences Of freedom and with
vigor called forth and disciplined in the subjugaion of
the forest and trained and perfected in the mysteries OF
hptuidng and navigation by the hardy pursuit OF the
whale fisheries under eitbe. pole, they will in all Euro
pean conflicts with keen sagacity assume the relation OF
ncuas and thus grasp the prize OF Atlantic commerce
dropped Into their hands by the fierce bilgerents."
"ln the midst ofyour studies and experiments in n.y.
draulics steam and electricity, they will seize your UNI
practc ed and incomplete inventions, and cover
their rivers with steamboats, and and bind the
distant territories with Canals and Railroads and
Teegraphs. When long interval of peace shall have
come, yOrl merchant combining vast capital, Will
regain and hold for time the carrying trade by substi
tuipg for irregular and cumbersome craft capacious,
buOyant and fleet packetships but the Americans,
quickly borrowing the device and improving your
skill, will reconquer their commerce. You will then
all the enterprise your merchants, all the spirit
Of your Government, and sezing the and mighty
power Of STEAM perfected by your inveterate rival will
apply it to ocean navigation, and laying hold Of the COM
merca and social correspondence OF the two countries
the basis Of postal revenue, you will restore your
lost monopoly on the Atlantic, and enjoy il unmolested
through period of ten years. During that season of
triumph, you will maintain and perfect all the arrange
ments for extending this mighty device Of power and
revenue, to connect every island Of the and
every part of every Continent with your own Capital.
But just that moment your emuous rival will appear
with steamships still more capaciou. buoyant and fleet
than your own, in ysur harbors and at subverng
your Atlantic monopoly will give earnest of her vgor
renewal OF the endless contest for the supremacy
OF the seas When you thought her subdued her flag is
in ports covering her charities contributed
nd ubi
stand hesitatng whether 10 declare between Repub-
hcanism and absolute power in Continental Europe,
her agents are seen waiting on every battlefield to
lutte the uumphs of Liberty and when that cause is
oyerborne the same constant tag il seen even in the