New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-06-13
OF THE NAVY.

in Aug. 1856, upon the re:organizati on
Of the Navy, with a letter from the
Hon John p. Hale, u. 8. Senator from
New. Hampshire, soliciting its publ
cation, and an endorsement Of the
scheme in the columns of our paper,
Our knowledge Of the party Of which
John P. Hale is member, and the Sec
ton of the country from which he halls:
has taught US to look with just suspicion
and alarm upon every questioned public
policy he, or it seeks to inaugurate.
New England and Iowa are to great
extent furnishing to the world the same
natural products Of the soil.
Their interests are commercially an
tagonistic, and must forever remain 80.
Iowa is now taxed for the benefit of
eastern capital, from twenty FIVE to
fifty cents on every bushel Of her wheat
shipped to the seaboard, and to tax ,ur-
selves further to build up and maintain
her shipping upon the high seas, were
the heighth of folly.
Eastern capital now has all the con =
tracts for manufacturing arms, clothing,
and supplies for the men engaged in
crushing out the rebellion, that eastern
fanaticism provoked the est is furn-
ishing vastly more than its proportion
of men, paying most of the taxes and
fighting the battles Of the country
The fruits Of western industry in the
I.ean time are under the absolute con-
troll Of a despotism worse to us than
any that alarms the vision of our cas-
tern ne;ghbors-under the monopoly
Of rail roads and lake navigation, ownei
and controlled by eastern legislation
and eastern capital, and used to pour
ths golden treasures Of the West into
the miserly lap of the East, 50 as to
afford western labor the pi,tance.
Eastern fanatiuism aided by the sim,
plicity Of an abolition President, has
transferred our trade from is natural
channel-the Mississippi Riyer-to
itself: not for our good. Or any Of the
exigencies Of the country, bat to swell
the Golfers Of eastern capitalists.
Besides We would not advocate the
appropriation Of a single dollar for any
such purpose until the Republican ad-
ministration at Washington shall re-
turn to the wise and safe policy of the
founders of the government. Under
this judicious policy the shipping of the
United States has expanded from 2o1,-
562 tons burden in 1889: to 11,O79,626
tons burden in 1861, and instead of
Great Brittain's being the boosted mis-
tress of the sea, our sails whiten every
sea: and our commerce has extended to
every civilized country upon the.face of
the globe 4; our shipping being moro
than sufficient, if stationed around the
earth to signal from ship to ship. Such
has been some Of Of the glorious results
of democratic administration of the
government; such, the sweet fruits Of
-cf the sagacity and sound political wis
dom Of the past. But in an evil mo-
ment the government was delivered up
to party without one vestage of the
political forecast Of our past history,
and with no higher ambition to serve
than the ends and aims Of the most
bootless fana ticism that ever cursed
great, free, prosperous and happy peo-
pie.
A glance at the gigantic and sub.
lime folly Of this party shows it volun-
tarily surrendering up ous shipping in
tcrests of such unreasonable ma gni.
tade and Importance, to the tender
mercics Of s.Old England" conceding to
her the principle that privateering
should be piracy; and for what? That
We might cripple the South, destitute
Of shipping, and of the means of build :
ing, equipping and launching navy.
Now these fanatics and demagogues
finding our commerce in case Of war at
the mercy of foreign powers, come for
ward and ask an appropriation of mill
ions of money to do for it, what it could
and would have done for itself had cir.
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