The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-01


Tue existence OF this company thai deserves consideration
Al The time they entered into contract they We're
qued 10 touch Cowes in the Isle oil Wight and there
deliver mail They were designed and intended to be
The postal medium OF the United States between this and
England, as we'll as the continent but what has
Congress done since that! y mas established the Col
fui company, with their ships and moe
pie means, drawn in part IRON the treasury TO COM
pete with the English line, and also win Tins has
established then, by lis act IN part, the competition
which dverts the mails which Otherwise would fall into
the hands Of the Bremen aud the Have line and
greater income. II is IN great measure owing 10 the
postage facilities from the United States. that the mail is
diverted from this line, When the mail has been d
verted from them. and put into other channels By an
of Congress, hardly becomes TO complain that
pated.
But wish TO say word two in regard TO the gen
eral policy which we pursue on this matter. | quite
agree with the senator from Virginia. Mr. HuErER !
that we should not enter into competition freghllng
that il is not very wise policy The part Of the Uu
Ted States adop, system OF that description; but
suppose that the United States will by means esteem
good policy 10 deny the right 10 those who sail ships
OF Tins description to carry freight also. What has been
the effect OF establishing this line OF certain and frequent
lnercommnnicaton with the continent OF Europe and
especially with Germany | have no figures here upon
the subject, and am sorry that have not; but ii has
increased greatly, perhaps more than twenyold the d.
rect lIate which has been much and earnestly
sought Tor by the southern part of the United States
have somewhere seen statement OF that trade, and
think an safe IN placing its increase at twenty fold.
Mr.. BELL II has increased from two to ten millions
Mr.. DAVIS The senator says it has increased from
two 10 Ten millions since this line established II
there is any thing which the southern country has asped
is this direct trade There has been devised
which fosters and cherishes such an increase
this steam communication. But beg leave TO make
other remark upon this subject
Some years ago the attention OF the country was ear
nesy engaged considering and promoting the OF
productions bu, another leading thought has sprung up
and instead OF entertaining and cheIshng the idea OF pro-
ducton as ruling policy, we have gradually turned our
attention to transportation; and The genius OF the country
is exercised chiefly upon the single thought of transport
alton Instead of cheshBg the attachment long and
IDENTIFY felt for domestic labor and the encourag OF
production, we turn thoughts upon transportation
alone, TO the manifest derment OF The great interest of
labor Some very curious results have sprung out OF
this particular fact We have gone on with the help OF
steam, cheapenng and cheapenng transportation by all
the means which human genius can devise. The number
OF vessels and voyages have been increased between this
and Europe until anantcipated results begin 10 manifest
themselves and the problem Of free trade is likely to be
worked out by aprocess quite beyond the vision OF British
statesmen The plan OF free trade in England gathered
strength till it supplaned the old colonial SYSTEM under
which she had ourished for ages till she TO be the
mistress of the seas, and her power and impress was
more felt and realized than that OF any other nation.
Long and ardent the struggle, but the loom and anvil
prevailed the ship and The plough She flung of her
colonies 10 take of themselves when she invited
the world 10 become their competitors upon footing
equality The great net york which bound the colonies
to the mother asunder, and future reliance was
placed upon her ability TO produce cheaper than others
be better 10 her than colonies because
TO subserye the purpose OF growing material
and consuming her manufactures instead OF our own
Transportation the natural child OF free trade inds
pensabe TO its success and pounds, shlngs and pence
aured sturdy old Eng land from her isolated freedom
depend on fore ign cultivation for her daily food But
the end is not yet, though II is Fastening.
Cheap transportation is inscribed upon the national
banner Steam by land steam BY steam every where
Men catch the whizzlng tone OF steam, and whlr along
as II worked by engine The infection has long since
reached u.s. and nowhere else has the word ransporta
.on completely filled the public mnd-nowhere else
has England found such ally, full of courage,
strength and resources To us il trie TO carry
heat corn provisions five thousand miles, and 10 bring
rom thence our horse and whatever Else we need
Every nerve every chord is now stretched to It's greatest
tension to work out this result 10 help England with
her policy But, alas! statesmen grasp at shadows,
which eude them Transportation is cheapened, goods
well food carried al low but goods 10 be
cheap must be made with cheap labor The cheaper
God was to make cheap labor, and constant labor
was 10 bring conenment But this grea, plan OF social
eform yet disappont the hopes OF Its advocates
Cheap transportation which to make cheap food and
cheap goods spreads influence much wider, and OF
he largest and most successful branches OF business is
he importation OF human beings, men, women. and
children Cheap transportation is stronger lure than
he promised cheap Bread and vast multudes annually
The United Kingdoms TO become, not sojourners but
jewellers elsewhere Notwithstanding all the
pleasing pictures OF popular contenment which adorn the
heiouc OF Parliament and the hustngs the great current
II emigration acquires new strength every year. No
uch outpouns mas ever Deeh witnessed as ina, OF he
asst year.
We probably add TO the population OF the United States
aa million annually by emigration from other coun-
res the largest portion OF which from the United
Kingdoms, while the country IS sending great null
itudes 10 Australia
II is idle to contend that such process go with
nj exerng great and lasting influence. Such drain OF
be young, the healthy the vigorous the enierplsing
hose most competent 10 labor, cannot go on without
Wasting the strength and vital energy, not OF England
llone, but OF Europe. When the hard hand OF labor
ais to apply itself, It's energy becomes feeble. the
BASIS OF free trade crumbles to dus, and yet this pro-
has already gone far TO create alarm Tor ITS
onsel uences II has diminished the aborers in some
of Ireland change the course OF cultivation
rom cereal crops TO grazing. IL already attracts alien
ion in England and Germany, and win soon be more
seriously ielt.
said ii working out the problem Of free trade in
way not anticipated by political philosophers Little
lid Lord John think ships would be filled with la.
,orers as we'll goods, and that this tide would swell
bough bread is cheapened Little did he dream that la
Dor under the process might be equazed that would
Use instead OF falling in England, by diminishing mum.
oe, and be kept down here by the fresh accession OF
new hands.
Emigration has hitherto been chiefly confined to agricu
ura labor but wka is TO hinder IL 10 eventually reaching
The manufacturing class 1t said it has touched iron
and this is one cause OF the advance in price Many
conspire Europe to allure labores from their
native land to shores where they become cti-
and feeholders securing 10 themselves and their
postery more desirable and agreeable social condition
But cannot. at this late hour OF the night enter into
and do justice TO this subject
But may add that this process of equalization is going
On, and goes with rapidiy that will necessarily
produce striking influences These steamers though not
by direct agency, OF the most etfeciua means oil
accomplishing all thisone OF the most efficient
which have ever been applied They make their voyages
with extreme apdlty, and have by their influence upon
fares and freight reduced the price of passage low that
almost any individual who has any means whatever