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warded. The kindness we have so often experienced from our 

 countrymen, and the charitable estimate they have put upon our 

 labours, leave nothing to regret in relation to the past, while they 

 make us independent with respect to the future. We have no 

 narrow and exclusive feelings to be gratified. We wish to see 

 the expedition sail, solely because of the good it may do, and the 

 honour it may confer on the country at large. 



For the same reasons we wish to see it organized on liberal and 

 enlightened principles, which object can be effected only by calling 

 in requisition the known skill of the service, which will be found 

 equal to the discharge of every duty, in any way connected with 

 the naval profession. 



But this should not be all. To complete its efficiency, indi- 

 viduals from other walks of life, we repeat, should be appointed 

 to participate in its labours. No professional pique, no petty 

 jealousies, should be allowed to defeat this object. The enter- 

 prise should be national in its object, and sustained by the national 

 means, belongs of right to no individual, or set of individuals, 

 but to the country and the whole country ; and he who does not 

 view it in this light, or could not enter it with this spirit, would 

 not be very likely to meet the public expectations were he 

 intrusted with the entire control. 



To indulge in jealousies, or feel undue solicitude about the 

 division of honours before they are won, is the appropriate em- 

 ployment of carpet heroes, in whatever walk of life they may be 

 found. The qualifications of such would fit them better to thread 

 the mazes of the dance, or to shine in the saloon, than to venture 

 upon an enterprise requiring men, in the most emphatic sense of 

 the term. 



There are, we know, many, very many, ardent spirits in our 

 navy many whom we hold among the most valued of our friends 

 who are tired of inglorious ease, and who would seize the 



