The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-30
Any~eheuded Revolution 10 TRADE.

may desire.
App~eheaded Revolution 10 T.""o'
The New York papers manifest remarkaoie sem
sit,veness concerning the solution CT the fsoo'e"
~. ~, cr.,, rs.tern's route shall terminate
on this side Of the Atlantic Nor Is tbs the oniS
cause of alarm 1t appears that great sohe'uue
ex,s,s among the business men OF the whoie No''h.
,.s, the r.pd changes of trade may ruin nearly q"
.,,, owners In the Z United States The New fotk
T,m.s has q noteworthy article, sndeavof'ng 10
show that English iron screw propeiers are rap
idv driving off the ocean every other description
Of burden shio-so rapidly as to make IL prooao'e
that by the end of the present century, tue carry
;,- ,rsde Of the whole world will oe done in iron
,.assss vorked bv steam-and that a wooden mer-
chant sbi, psvigsted by sails, will be thing IN
s,ov, n the generation of that day. This Is an
extravagsut prediction, and one we have DO '"'''
>, Sailing vessels are more economical IMAM
..eamers. and with the most valuable OF our en-
ports to Europe, cotton breadstutf', 49, 'he CIR
neut of time is not OF as much consequence -
the price Of freight 10 expensive steamers Ahe
experience of the water avenues "n'cu ns'e
made New York what she Is, ought 10 quiet Ihe
nervous apprehensions Of Der snip owners luz
.,o,s;I eta,ners ON the Hudson river and Long
1s,.,d so,nd failed to Danish the humble, but ca-
n,c,ors and economical sailing vessels from those
s,ars vxbils, the Erie Canal, with its horse power,
bss heen the chief source of the extraordinary
growth and prosperity of New York, and at this
n,orrs,t nerforms an amount of business in the
TRANSFORMATION of heavy freight, which sixteen
railroads could posccompsh. 1t is significant fac.
tba. at this moment, when there Is a direct and
superior railway communica ton between Albany
and Boston, agriculture often takes the circuitous
water route from Albany to Boston, by old FASH
toned sailing vessels in preference to the railway,
for the simple reason that few days more time is
not as Of much Importance to those articles as
few cents more freight. The same principle will
apply to ocean navigation and whilst pershahie
articles will take the most rapid means of trans
poriaton tie great staple of the country will con.
time to be conveyed by sailing vessels
Nevertheless, the shipping interest of the North
Is alarmed and the newspapers TEEN with doeful
va.icinations Ii must be confessed that England
manifcsts degree of discerRment, energy and i'm.
PROBABILITY in this department. of enterprise, for
which she had not much credit in the United
States Our own ship builders bad become some-
what vsin- glorious, especially since the triumph
of the yacht America AID the unrivaled perfc m
ances of our magnificent clippers. England, 1t
was true WAS the first commercial power of the
world, and had maritime instincts and aptitudes
unapproached by any nation save ourselves. Yet,
admitting all this we looked upon her as slow
coach; the muscle of bull, but not the speed Of
tbeiap telope; stiff rigid, too proud 20 learn from
Others and as much opposed to innovations in ship
building as in government. We are beginning 10
find ont our mistake. We discovering that
the hexoii.y is equal to the strength of her
character and that instead of likening her to the
bull she more nearly resembles The elephant
whose powerful! and flexible trunk can pick up an
apple and pull down tree. The lesson which the
America gave her fell upon good ground She
fouud herself beat to death upon her own waters,
bu. instead of venting her disappointment in
puerile anger she frankly admitted her defeat, and
set to work correct her errors and Guido her in.
structor Aud she has succeeded She produces
clippers as fast as own, retaining the China
trade against our iercest competition, and steam
ers one of which, the Persia, outsaiis ythirg
that our couutrymen have yet been able to bring
on: in competition Her colonial sbipwrights have
gone to work, and with abundance of timber at
their command, have turned out admirable YES
sells Not satisfied with these achievements, she
ia seeking 70 monopolize the tremendous power of
steam; she builds an enormous iron vessel the
Great Eastern, the like of which was never ina
sped in the world BEFORE ana, at this moment,
eighty iron screw propeers the stocks in
England and Lot one in the United States! The
reason alleged for our deficiency in this respect is
that iron is too expensive in this country alhoush
is full of it, to enable us to compete with Great
Britain in screw propellers which, it is said, must
be built of iron or not at ALL wood will not bear
the strain.
Whilst we have no fear that sailing vessels will
be banished from the ocean for centuries and
whilst the mar time instincts and activity and re
sources of our countrymen will, in the end, tri
umph over all competition, we must not commit
the fatal error of undertaking the enterprise and
skill which are combined with British capital in
every branch of her enormous commercial inter
ests We mast not fiattar ourselves with the ste
reotYped nonsense that Britain is getting old Let
us rather rely upon the energies OF our own youth
than upon the absurd illusion of her decadence -
She was not too proud to adopt our improvements
| in ship building Let us not disdaiu to follow her
exam pie in opening to American ship owners t he
markets Of the world and shake c # the n nightmare
m 1nopoly of our navigation laws
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