hese mercantile and
quasi-diplomatic agents ought to be largely increased, it being now
inadequate as measured either by their labor and responsibility or
by the allowances made by other nations, our commercial rivals.
Certainly, additional pay in any reasonable proportion would be but a
trifle in comparison with the result should it promote the rise of our
marine from its present unprecedented state of depression. If consuls
will create, or recreate, shipping, and reintroduce the American flag
to the numerous foreign ports to which it is becoming each year more
and more a stranger, let us by all means have them everywhere and at
liberal salaries, with quant. suff. of clerks, assistants, flunkeys,
dress-suits for dinner-parties and court-suits for state receptions,
and all the other necessaries of an efficient consulate, the want
whereof so vexed the soul of Mr. Sampleton. And then let us make
fixtures of these gentlemen, with good behavior for their tenure of
office, and in the selection of them endeavor to apply abroad the test
it seems next to impossible to adhere to at home--honesty, capacity
and fidelity.

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