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beauty of architecture, perfection of model and improved speed, com- 

 merce is not destined to languish, nor can the mechanic find room for 

 leisure or discouragement. 



In fact it is the mechanic's arm which brings about the successful 

 results of talents and enterprise, and it is the existing distribution of 

 labor and patronage, which is destined to perpetrate our thriving re- 

 public. It is the one general unison of feeling and interest that points 

 the way to an endless national existence. There is a pervading spi- 

 rit of liberality and influence, which is properly filled to reward the 

 productions of native talent ; and, in a word, society is so blended, 

 and yet so uniformly constituted, that the energies of wisdom and in- 

 dustry are destined, to repose neither in obscurity nor idleness. 



As we advance in the progress of our national strength, these en- 

 ergies are called into action, true merit becomes fairly appreciated, 

 and undoubted genius finds its true and elevated position. 



To substantiate these facts, we discover an illustration in the jeal- 

 ous deportment of foreign nations, and especially in Great Britain, in 

 their recent reviews of the progress of American improvement. 



To England be the credit and the renown, resulting from her suc- 

 cess and her boastings. Apart from native prejudices, we are dispo- 

 sed to award her the privileges resulting from her achievements in 

 steam-navigation, while we are reminded that assurance alone has fre- 

 quently succeeded in placing its votaries upon the pedestal of fame, 

 which modest merit and original talents never justified it in reaching. 



By reference to the chronological summary of an old almanac, 

 printed in Albany, by the late Solomon Southwick, may be noticed 

 the following memorandum : "May, 1819. The first steamship sails 

 for Europe." And by further reference to British authority, we find 

 that the steamship Savannah was launched in New-York, sailed from 

 Savannah, under command of Captain Moses Rogers, on the 25th of 

 May, 1819, and arrived in Liverpool on the 20th June, 1819, making 

 the passage in twenty-six days, from land to land. 



It is very certain that in this age, this would be considered rather 

 slow progress, but we presume it was well enough at the time it was 

 accomplished ; and it is also very certain that the steamer Great 

 Western has since proved to the world, and the propeller Princeton 



