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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], A speech from the builder of the Confederate Privateers. (search)
the builders, and is connected with them in business: He then referred to the speech delivered within the last few days by Mr. Cobden, in which that gentleman had been pleased to make use of some complimentary terms about the late firm at Birkenhead. He did not agree with all the remarks of Mr. Cobden, that Government vessels should be constructed by private builders. On the contrary, he thought it was desirable that the Government should have a portion of the work done at private establsons built and designed the Alabama-- ["Hear," and cheers]--nor, he was sure, was the builder of the Florida ashamed to say that he designed and built that ship; but the testimony borne to the character of these vessels was not the testimony of Birkenhead, or Liverpool, or this country, but of America. These two vessels had been built a long time, and they had defied the efforts of four hundred ships of-war to capture them. These ships, he repeated, were designed by private individuals and bui