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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade, by John Codman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade Author: John Codman Release Date: May 6, 2009 [EBook #28704] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FREE SHIPS: AMERICAN CARRYING TRADE *** Produced by Bryan Ness, C. St. Charleskindt and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) FREE SHIPS. THE RESTORATION OF THE AMERICAN CARRYING TRADE BY JOHN CODMAN. NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 182 FIFTH AVENUE 1878 FREE SHIPS. The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade. It may seem surprising that an American House of Representatives should have been so ignorant of the meaning of a common word as to apply the term "commerce" to the carrying trade, when in the session of 1869 it commissioned Hon. John Lynch, of Maine, and his associated committee "to investigate the cause of the decadence of American commerce," and to suggest a remedy by which it might be restored. But, it was not more strange than that this committee really appointed to look into the carrying trade to which the misnomer commerce was so inadvertently applied, should have entirely ignored its duty by constituting itself into an eleemosynary body for the bestowal of national charity upon shipbuilders. Its Report fell dead upon the floor of the House, and was so ridiculed in the Senate that when a motion was made to lay the bill for printing it upon the table, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, suggested, as an amendment, that it be kicked under it. Nevertheless, the huge volume of irrelevant testimony was published for the benefit of two great home industries--paper making and printing. The theory of this committee was that the Rebellion had destroyed another industry nearly as remote from the proper subject of inquiry as either of these. These gentlemen concluded that shipbuilding was becoming extinct, because the Confederate cruisers had d
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