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sometimes adroitly managed, failed in every case. Whenever the question came to a vote, it was always found that a majority in one or both Houses of Congress had inherited the patriotism of their ancestors of 1792. Had any of these assaults been successful to the extent of wiping the act of 1792 from the pages of the Revised Statutes, there would not now be a first-class shipyard in existence on our soil, and we would have been, like Chile and Japan, forced to dicker on the banks of the Clyde for the construction of our new navy, if we had one at all. But aside from the desire of English ship-builders to create a new market for their product by opening our registry, there is a political cause operating with even greater force to make free American registry a desideratum to England. It lies in the threat of maritime war to which European nations are constantly exposed. At the time of the Franco-German War of 1870-71, even so sturdy a patriot as General Grant, then President, w