New-York tribune., 1877-05-15


Now gentlemeu your toast, while it is full OF fmth
and hope is also dark with the suggestion that the com
morce OF the country needs all the aid that fith ana nope
can promise It, and has TO look upon the past as the
greatness of its glory. Why such nation as TINS shouid
have occasion TO lament decay In IFS ships and decline III
its may well set us all a thinking some OF tno
reasons are obvious, some more obscure. why nation
that is so strong I'm the warke power of its people, SO
rich in the breadth OF its fertile fields advanced IN
The skill the invention, and so complete IN the eapa'S
OF labor Of its population why nation that produces
food for many peoples raw material that makes up the
woven fabrics that cothe half the people OF
the world; why a nation that adds the only
two other sources Of human wealth-the mines
and the nsheries why nation that boasts
in its products the precious metals silver and god
which in all commercial ages and in all commercial couh
fries have been and the money OF the world le Joh
servant It's commerce. the substance OF all that is prom
scd by every form OF faith to be commerce ana teV
is to for money for cred-slver acetp'aDe 10
the nations Of the East gold favored by the nations
of the West and our country the great producer of the
two-wh, such nation should find its commerce Ian
cnish and its flag desert the may occasion much
thought its people and much soci;ude il It's Govern
mont. lApplause.l
Now. there were reasons why all these con
CURING forces of production in all their
forms did not work altogether in favor
of our mercantile classes Of the prevalence OF our
foreign commerce. These difficulties and differences
belong TO She past the time when one section OF your
country thought IL better TO favor British commerce
than support the development of the commerce &" inc
North-the time ard the motive have passed away To-
gcthcr TAppause And then there came the great
agony Of our civil war; and the cruel blows that foreign
interests struck upon the nation in thefmo Of its distress
these and all Tr-fIgctS have been co~t" Allu
then came period of sucnucs, and dscont n from the
irerfsct plccton OF The country at large, and from
ths wild urcGJnmence of political scheme aud Hiedl-
eats accomplishing what seemed simple II al were o
me-
Now ali that il ended and forever (tppauscl From
unity of purpose OF greater reverence the CCnst-
tuition which has survived all Its pcrii,, aId greater
but one face 0f colentment aad hope from cad 10
tbr ofbcr IAnulaIlscI knd now what clu keep
rSsonrccs and with such uuauiuiV AID
sfrcu',tb Of natriotc harmony! Nouipg hut
Rad laws or Their imperfect execution. Wise Laws
aud tc itlfnl xrcIiou s.rn 10 nc all th9t is needed
~ u, 49, t @ ,,1 ,r' ,,, s,i. Ik'tt,lss
E'ftITaaIy to,l,u rEi4 question OF Tie relation d!
Coycllucit aud the prov nee oi Government ovcr 0r
baG be- amy Controversy Between Federal and stale
- III. r,nftry whether i'm war by its hu-tltr-
Ica,r pv its cinn,rcc-rne Whole supremacy and tgu-
alion o Inc shipping Of TIE nation ha. repos"d entire
i'm the Cons! tulu Of the United States, V1r.e it
imbedG-a by tie patriotism and under the -dd expert
lies III le qsi, Whatever shall continue 90 divide !HeI
in the future, our foreign commerce Is III tfe baE's
Tlc Gag ,o bee kept upon tae must have ships ri
who's, ua,thcats % must h', lA"pl inarl ana t..e
calr, lAupuI;rl !, we nave great de.l to give and
"a great u, o. sell 20 forei-n nations, We may Oe saiJ
tLat must be Wins TO take ,,l @rg3t . def
not ncayo egt IN -CTmise; il has sometime J.cl st-
ma. iz'd a. selfish ~ j. - -pllii ' , . ms. ,y,,,c an,
for Ii51e b.i-iit> r,ras aus, be simple app5I,c
duties mast Doe collected iapp'Iuscl the n"cr"'' ma,
/ not lee ,Hr prey Z" 'niI-,'i '""E @ ic U''
i ,,o ~, ~. o's .inn ,t dealing Win advanced
nation, only in our rav Iea,cra must e pushed ali
pressed aad developed - iha, we nay c9mp''r WIZ M
N