Address Before the American Institute At the Close of Its Fourteenth Annual Fair
Address Before the American Institute At the Close of Its Fourteenth Annual Fair
James Tallmadge
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British vessels visit, with facilities, our Eastern ports, and take our pro- duce by way of Halifax and Brunswick, to foreign markets, which are closed, by high duties, against American vessels. It is thus that five-sixths of the commerce of MAINE is in British vessels ; as is also two-thirds of the commerce of Georgia. The table of the tonnage of that State is : " American, . 23, 204 British, 41, 721. " In April last, I went up the Savannah river. There were then eleven large English ships lad...ing with Georgia timber. No American vessel. If such an undue proportion of our commerce, carried on in foreign ves- sels, to the exclusion of the American flag, is beneficial either to the parti- cular States, or to the nation ; the Chesapeake, the Delaware, and the Hudson, ought to be opened to a participation of the benefits. But if not, the subject has long required the action of Congress, and calls for a just protection to our own carrying trade. The commerce and navigation on the Western Lakes, exhibit a case yet more extraordinary : "Lake Ontario.
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