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The value of the merchandise exported from Savannah in March, 

 lS49j is stated to be $1,224,115 : 



Shipped in American vessels 67,226 



" in Foreign vessels 1,156,889 



$1,224,115 



' The speaker said, the Timber Trade entered into this statement, the 

 remarkable feature of which he would not now attempt to explain. 



The speaker said, if the encouragement of Domestic Industry by a 

 just Protection, must be withheld, and our laboring classess are to be 

 reduced to the condition to which centuries of oppression have reduc- 

 ed the laboring classes of Europe, he was ready to admit that " Free 

 Trade" was the appropriate means by which to accomplish such a re- 

 sult. To bring the productions of Europe, from its fifteen hours of 

 daily labor for a stinted supply of the necessaries of life, with the ab- 

 sence of all intellectual culture for himself and his children, into com- 

 petition with the productions of the ten hours' daily labor of this 

 country, with every abundance, and civil and religious rights, there 

 could be no uncertainty of the result in the open market of the world. 

 The ten hour man must be driven from the competition. Agricul- 

 ture, though a necessary, is not a profitable employment. The Arti- 

 zan is the source of national wealth, and his encouragement should 

 be a material object of national policy. 



To the question that has sometimes been sneeringly asked : " What 

 has America done 1" — this occasion forbids a full reply ; while, how- 

 ever, it seems appropriate to say that. 



It was our Fraijklin who called down the Lightning, and with his 

 rod, guided and directed its course in its mad career. It is our 

 Morse who has taught it to read and write — to overleap time and 

 space — and to deliver forthwith tidings of business to the remotest 

 parts of our land. 



It was our Whitney who gave the cotton-gin to the country and 

 to the world. It has built up the agriculture of the South — given 

 value to its soil — and made us the second commercial nation of the 



