Causes of the Reduction of American Tonnage and the Decline of Navigation Interests: Being the Report of a Select Committee Made to the House of ... on the 17th February, 1870 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It is. Difficult to realize that our country, which in little more than half a century ending in 1860, had reached the very foremost rank of maritime nations, has in less than a decade lost half its merchant shipping and all its maritime prestage, and that we now stand debating whether we shall without a struggle yield all, and become the mere commercial de pendency of the nation for whose advantage we have been thus spoiled and reduced.

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