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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
Ship and Engine Building Company, of Philadelphia, Pa. When one traces the history of the navigation laws of the United States, beginning with the act of Dec. 31, 1792, which closed American registry to foreignbuilt vessels except as to prizes taken in war, down to the present time, there appears cumulative evidence that the lcan, with deficiency of performance even more pitiable. The policy of Secretary Whitney was in fact an echo of the sturdy patriotism that framed the act of Dec. 31, 1792, dictated by the same impulse of national independence, and conceived in the same aspiration of patriotic pride. In the face of this record so fresh and rect they are among the most venerable of our statutes, the Constitution itself antedating them only three years. But I call attention to the fact that the act of Dec. 31, 1792, was quite as much in force from that time to 1860, when our merchant marine was at its zenith of prosperity, as when it became prostrate. This is an historic