FREQ Trade-To Ship Carpenters, Caulk


ers, &Cc. SC.
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FREQ Trade-TO Ship Carpenters, Caulk-


ers, &c. SIC.
Hon. JOHN NcKEeN is candidate for Congress
He is in favor and fairly avows himself SO, Of alb
solute Free Trade. Are you prepared for the ap-
plication of that principle to your pursuits? Let
US look at the effect of it:


BY the Laws of the United States, no foreign
built ship be registered or enrolled in our ma
rne unless she is captured or seized for breach OF
our laws.


No foreigner can own any part of an American
ship.


No foreign vessel can take or carry any good.
between our different ports. For instance, an En-
giish ship bound to New-Orleans from this place
cannot take freight: She must go in ballast.
@The above laws are entirely prohibisory. You
have no foreign competition and very little to do
without 1t. What, then, must be the effect if these
laws are repealed3 which must be done if the Free
Trade men succeed.


ship can be built in Bremen or Harnbureh-
what We would call even here a firs,.cla,s shin
tor 500 per ton: mean ready for sea. Here The
same vessel would cost 800 per ton.


Shipmasters there get $50 per month; Mate,
SIS per month; Sailors So per month; Ship Car.
penters 40 to so cents per day.


Canadian.buils ships can be bought for $40 per
ton Swedish-buis vessels at nearly the same rate
Captains there ge, $l2 per monsh; Mates IS. and
Sailors $4. The Sailors have to give security tina,
they viii return to the country, our higher wage.
being too tempting for them


In those countries neither Tea, Coffee, nor Su
gar is SO cheap as here; Meat and other provisions
about the same.


Now, again ask of you where it must end i
you allow foreign competition to interfere in YOU
already almost ruiEsd pursuits Wll it NOT bs
entire destruction Arsyou rot then bound, as yos
are protected SO we'll, to stand by those who arr
far protecting other interests as well your ownl


An OLD SAILOR.