American Navigation: The Political History of Its Rise and Ruin and the Proper Means for Its EncouragementHoughton, Mifflin, 1902 - 466 pages |
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... less of proportionate carriage in 1789 , in a few years our vessels were carrying from 80 to 90 per cent . of our exports and imports , the culmination occurring in 1826 , when the figures stood , for exports , 89.6 per cent . ; for ...
... less of proportionate carriage in 1789 , in a few years our vessels were carrying from 80 to 90 per cent . of our exports and imports , the culmination occurring in 1826 , when the figures stood , for exports , 89.6 per cent . ; for ...
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... less than half and down to less than a tenth of our commerce , have been illusive and deceptive . Where alien merchants , underwriters , and bankers , as well as foreign vessels , are ployed in a nation's commerce , as now in ours ...
... less than half and down to less than a tenth of our commerce , have been illusive and deceptive . Where alien merchants , underwriters , and bankers , as well as foreign vessels , are ployed in a nation's commerce , as now in ours ...
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... less be dependent on any for the market carriage of our productions , or for any service what- TON . ever . Foreign Interference in our Affairs . MR . JEFFERSON cau- tioned us in 1791 that " the marketing of our productions will be at ...
... less be dependent on any for the market carriage of our productions , or for any service what- TON . ever . Foreign Interference in our Affairs . MR . JEFFERSON cau- tioned us in 1791 that " the marketing of our productions will be at ...
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... less than ten per cent . of our transportation . Now , that she has seventy per cent . of it , she has resumed her old - time supervision of our growth . The Idea of Our Fathers . When our present Government was established , its ...
... less than ten per cent . of our transportation . Now , that she has seventy per cent . of it , she has resumed her old - time supervision of our growth . The Idea of Our Fathers . When our present Government was established , its ...
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... less than tools for trade . ous for defense ashore or afloat . good platforms for guns and swift in action , but ramparts and fortresses to discomfit an enemy . And always , in any part of the world , our ships are our standard bearers ...
... less than tools for trade . ous for defense ashore or afloat . good platforms for guns and swift in action , but ramparts and fortresses to discomfit an enemy . And always , in any part of the world , our ships are our standard bearers ...
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Page 356 - The congress shall have power — 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States: 2.
Page 167 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Page 415 - ... shall be imported into the United States, from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture; or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation.
Page 45 - Union, at a time and place to be agreed upon, to take into consideration the trade of the United States ; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony ; and to report to the several States such an act, relative to this great object, as, when ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress effectually to provide for the same.
Page 179 - Europe, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, than are or shall be payable on the like articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country...
Page 161 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Page 358 - ' to provide for the common defense and general welfare ' ' to cases which are to be provided for by the expenditure of money would still leave within the legislative power of Congress all the great and most important measures of Government, money being the ordinary and necessary means of carrying them into execution.
Page 414 - That a discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States...
Page 271 - States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 155 - An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...