I 



MEMORIAL 



EAST INDIA MARINE SOCIETY, 



OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, 



PRAYING THAT AN EXPEDITION BE FITTED OUT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE A VOYAGK 

 OP DISCOVERY AND SURVEY TO THE SOUTH SEAS. 



DECEMBER 16, 1834. 

 Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 



TO THE HONOURABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- 

 TIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. 



The memorial of the subscribers, citizens of the United States, 

 respectfully represents : 



THAT the vivifying influence of unshackled and unobstructed 

 commerce is, to our highly-favoured nation, what the healthful 

 pulsation of the heart is to the h\iman frame : it not only gives 

 life and enjoyment to the immediate vicinity of its vibrations, but 

 communicates the same, by a thousand mysterious channels, to 

 the remotest extremity of the body politic : it is the fountain from 

 which unfailing streams of revenue, our financial reservoir, is 

 supplied with the means of national existence. To remove every 

 obstacle which may impede or retard the healthful operation of 

 this vital organ, is evidently the interest, and consequently the 

 duty of the supreme legislature of the country. 



Under such impressions, it is with no small degree of interest 

 your memorialists perused an honourable expression of the legis- 



