Excerpt from Value of Spanish-America to the United States: The Promotion of American Commerce; How to Make the Monroe Doctrine Effective; The Extinguishment of the National Debt in a Few Years, Etc At an early hour yesterday morning this splendid steamer crossed the Bar and steamed up to the city, presenting an imposing appearance. And well she might; fo1 no such vessel, as regards size and cost, has ever before come to our ancient city, etc., etc., etc. This is the pioneer steamer of a line to be established between England and Charleston, the object pf which is to relieve American vessels from the carrying trade of that section of the United States. It would not surprise us to see lines of British steamers established with several, if not all, the principal ports of the South, thus completing the work, long since begun, of assuming control of our carrying trade. Meanwhile our own ships are idle. Unless measures for the protection and encouragement of our shipping interests be speedily adopted, we shall find our commerce controlled by England, as is that of spanish-america, and our shipbuilders will be forced to abandon their vocation, Our ship-owners, too, will have presented them the alternative of allowing their vessels to rot at the docks, or of placing them under the British flag. The law of England now offers no impediment to the purchase by British merchants of foreign-built vessels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.