Defence of the Right and the Duty of the American Union to Improve Its Navigable Waters
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Excerpt from Defence of the Right and the Duty of the American Union to Improve Its Navigable Waters: In a Speech Their opponents deny such improvements to be constitutional or necessary, or claim that, if necessary at all, they should be made solely by the separate States. It was some years, before the issue on this question was presented in the precise form I have above stated; but recent events have brought it distinctly in this shape before the American people; and it now forms the most prominent, among the features which distinguish the contending parties. In discussing the merits of the candidates now before us, I shall therefore seek to confine myself strictly to the attitude they respectively occupy, in relation to this great question. Above all I shall endeavor to avoid personalities, and shall cheerfully follow the example recently set by General Case, one of the moat eminent of our opponents, and admit at once that both the candidates are men of patriotism and honor. The fundamental position taken by the Whigs, who claim that the Nation should make the necessary River and Harbor improvements, is that the navigable waters of the United States, for all purposes of commerce known to the Constitution, are national waters. On the other hand, our opponents contend that those waters are not national, but local, and that their improvement should be exclusively committed to the respective States. They further propose that, for the purpose of such local improvements, Congress should now consent that each State may lay tonnage duties on that portion of our navigable waters falling within its limits. It is this latter proposition, comparatively of recent origin, which we deem particularly destructive and alarming, and we oppose it not only as impracticable and inexpedient, but as unjust, unconstitutional, and denationalizing. For what is the Nation of which we are a part? What are its navigable waters? What is its commerce? What is its Constitution? And what rights does that Constitution confer, and what obligations does it impose, in respect to the national commerce? The Nation occupies an important portion of the earth, and stands among the great continental powers of the civilized world. Embracing twenty degrees of latitude in the temperate zone of the North American Continent, and stretching through nearly sixty degrees of longitude from the Atlantic to the Pacific, it covers the whole Continental expanse within those vast limits. In territorial area, it is now nearly as large as Europe; but running down to the verge of the tropics, lb an uh greater variety of climate and culture, and far exceeds the whole of Europe every element of continental strength. It has more ready access than Europe the two oceans ti:e groat highways of the globe - and lying ten degrees nearer the equator, its geographical position, in any great national or commercial struggle, will be much more convenient and commanding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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