Daily American telegraph., 1852-02-20

Dama last saturday ueIeated every measure having
for its object the internal improvement Of the
State.
Communicated
To the Three Millions OF Voters who, In
November, 1852, will have the right OF
Voting for Electors to choose a Presi-
dent Of the United States Of America.
"Bo sure you're right, then go ahead"
The nineteen maritime States of the federal
Union contain as follows:
A population of IA, 500, 900 souls
Sailing vessels numbering 100000 tons.
Merchants and mariners, 100000.
Cargoes valued at $1,000 900.
They pay annually thirty millions of cash taxes
into the federal treasury.
Whenever the concerned elect to embark such
interests or their legal occupation upon the seas
or oceans, the constitution of the United States
compels the merchants and Mariners the humble
instruments of commerce, to hoist over said tom
mage the shield of their protection, called the fed
eral flag. Whenever any spoliation is committed
upon such domestic interests, by any foreign gov
| eminent, prince, or power, such forlorn sufferers
are not permitted to invoke the indemnity SYM
pathies, i. e. material aid" of their neighbors
| composing the State legislatures, but are COM
PEELED to beg it of Congress, remote Legislative
body, composed now of 81 Senator'S and 233
members of the House of Representatives.
OF these the nineteen maritime States are rep
resented by 3S Senators-152 members.
The twelve inland States by "A Senators-8l
members.
Thus the nineteen maritime States having q
ma ority in Congress of twelve Senators and
seventeen Representatives, proves that if such
merchants and mariners-the humble, forlorn in
struments of commemorate not receive prompt
cash protection, i. e. "material aid, and indem-
nifty, but are the victims of new spoliation and
damage from the continued Indifference of Con-
gress,-all such great grievances proceed directly
from its neglect and want of fidelity, but not
from any defect in the glorious federal constitu-
ton signed by Washington in 1877, and in 1882
thus endorsed by the zeal and public spirit of the
patriot Jackson: g The federal Union must and
shall be preserved
Shall we ever look upon their like again?
The speech delivered in the city of New York
on the Goth of November, 1850 by the Hon.
Daniel Webster, nobly asserts that the federal
Union was created for the protection of COM
merce! This assertion is cheering to those per-
sons it invites to receive it's adoption, because
maritime commerce under the federal flag is
conducted by solitary man beyond the limits Of
the local tribunals of justice of the separate
States composing the United States confederacy
The federal Union statesman, Daniel Webster
may carry into practical effect the existing spirit
of his avowed creed, that "the protection of
commerce caused this creation Of the federal
Union that its people desire nothing but pro-
lection, that which every good government is
bound to afford; thus the country will be hon
ored abroad and stand forth as an example to
all the free nations of the world"
On the same correct principle of protection
life, fire, and marine insurance companies are
created by the practical intelligence of society,
and its members, in consideration of paying a
premium of insurance, in case of damage, re-
ceive prompt cash indemnity During the last
ten years, the consumers Of foreign food and
clothes dwelling in the sovereign State Of New
York have paid into the federal treasury not less
than eighty millions of dollars voluntary con-
tributions," (see report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, December, 1851 taxes, or premium
Of insurance, "for nething but protection of
commerce." On this ground alone its merchants
and mariners, and all of the same class of other
sovereign States have just right to receive from
Congress practical cash protection, by the appro-
priation Of money, for the payment of the in
demnity, or spoliation debt, or i'll advance or
anticipation Of its payment, due by foreign. ma
tons to citizens of the United States, secured
and adjusted to them under its most solemn laws,
called treaties and conventions, (but, in the plain
American language, instruments of writing known
as United States policies of insurance by the peo
ple,) "the supreme law Of the land, made under
the authority of the United States"-(See con-
stitution Of the United States, article g.
Such is the exact position Of the maritime class
Otherwise, in lieu Of the three millions five hum
bred thousand consumers of the sovereign State
Of New York paying into the United States trea-
sury another eighty millions of dollars "for
nothing" it is the duty of her sagacious legisa-
tors to compel her citizens to pay such fat fee,
bonus, or premium Of insurance, into her own
State treasury, as an indemnity fund, for the use
of her own commerce. upon the policy of-insu-
rance practice of civilized communities! Shall
selfish executives and legislators destroy model
| forms of government by their profound ignorance
of the progress of society, and its fidelity to the
preservation of this protection function of the
federal Union Our history is admitted to be
experience teaching by example"
In 1774, did not the patient colonial rebels first
refuse to pay taxes or premiums to the agents Of
King George Ill, because they received no valua-
BILE consideration for such voluntary contribu-
| tions?"
Were they not, in addition, insulted by his
hired tax-eaters for demanding their inherent
rights as born freemen, and for refusing to ask
such rights MS serfs and sycophahts of the
remote British King and Parliament, sitting in
idleness, with aristocratic regalia, in London ?
To define your position on this point, read the
| life Of the model rebel maritime merchant OF
1875, J. HANCOCK,
Afterwards President of the Model
Continental Congress
STATE OF New YORK, Feb. Ia, 1852.