The Republican journal., 1910-05-19
THE OLD NAVY.
,ouv O. JOHNSON OF LIBERTY.

r. . If the Continental Congress
.a' aot the war of the Revolution,
Il 1T low ebb. Indeed, we
The officers who had serv-
.-sa, var resigned. But after
..e If the Constitution and the
..-, became a nation, as it was
srtime people, commerce
els. cations began to grow and
,-~sr to increase. This was
the case with all of New
Zion. # all the cities in the Union
Baltimore. New Orleans,
.-1-atly became a great ship
not at that time belong to
.1 States BY the year 1900 we
.r-nsiye trade with all the
5pe and with the East and
rs we'll. and a new national
- be seen and known the
Pat it was not much re-
his was particularly the case
.s- then known as the Bar
- ityou look on the map you
you pass through the
tar into the Mediterran-
--4rboard hand. going in,
and the land along the
H-9iterranean sea is what
as the Barbary States
Morocco, Algeria and
60 borders on the ATTAIN
the Mediterranean sea.
iii lay along the coast
lean in the order named.
If these States or prin-
1atever named, were a
IF Turks, Arabs, Jews
si all were freebooters,
rates. They were absolute
small way without much
1eption of ''To the VIC
-poils," and large per
.. went to the rulers--the
and the Pashas of these
;, who lived in their pal
Imported by plumber from
nations taken by their
us.
The peculiar weakness and
If the Barbary States as
nuer it may we'll appear
-- reader of history of the
hat almost to the opening
, rrth century nearly all the
-~. IONS of the earth paid trib-
5t lower, in order to appease
-- and obtain exemption from
If their piratical cruisers.
NJ Of England or of France
b. is us been said many times,
--5ar tins system of piracy long
-r cr peremptory word, but as
committed their depreda-
S 4.-.g -n the Mediterranean, these
1~ had no special inducement
.-s But not all their depreda-
rs- ammitted in the Mediterran-
III lines they even attacked the
-' hound ships of the British
. .rhs company off the coast of Nor
=. Boats from that coast would come
ant swim around the ships they wish
{. .5-8ca as thick as flies and all the
7s 0. tass company were compelled to
amse ter self protection. This COM
3 n4s Dducted similar to the Brit
raw indeed, it was one of the con-
OPS If tarir charter that they should
3 Jh- sri-s with their officers and
vs. .# I. The government in times
'2 If the government required their
71=s. &c. officers of these ships
s.,ru-. to be skilled in seaman
q. oavigation and the ships
.ar.-7 to carry at least two "a
-. with small arms, boarding
repel boarders. They
by a Board of Admiralty,
.'- - av, who had the control of
ae-t, the promotion of the
ea s' A good story is told on a
4. # these ships. He was
"a Iy the way most of the
l- feet were Scotchmen, as
-s mates. This ship was home
fYn the Indies with large
Valuable cargo, and when off the
.-"f : ron0 they saw hundreds of
Is f-t-ag gut from the coast head
ls-e. for them and knew that they
Z l' a- lacked. The captain, not
e '' FL. =9me material as that other
'@9 sohn Paul Jones, showed the
le t=a'4es and went below and hid.
'ae Wit. was brave and gallant
2V with a good crew to back
-l- py. Jp ii good fight and succeeded
+.1- rnt pirates off. After the
sti was 'Ver the captain came slim
sol deck and calling the mate to him
Muster Dunkon, | will take the
opportunity to report to the Admir-
i b 4isnt manner in which you
s' 1 SNIP while | was dune winding
-Towe-ac!"
aid, and with some show
lat the British nation paid
" pirates for the sake of
5 .1H Irey on the commerce of
"n- This was particularly
't the new nation, the United
America. These corsairs had