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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
, in point of fact, there is no association between them. The object of the Revolutionary fathers in enacting the prohibitive navigation law of 1792 was to provide for the development and perpetuity of ship-building in the United States as an indispensable condition of commercial independence and as an unfailing nursery of naval strength. At that time there was no need of protection to American ship-building, in the tariff sense of the term. The Pennsylvania packet, in its issue of May 7, 1790, contained the following review of the then comparative state of shipbuilding in America and Europe, from the financial point of view: Ship-building is an art for which the United States are peculiarly qualified by their skill in the construction and by the materials with which their country abounds.... They build oak vessels on lower terms than the cheapest European vessels of fir, pine, and larch. The cost of a white-oak ship in New England is about 24 Mexican dollars per to