Excerpt from Are the Interests of a Few Ship-Builders More to Be Considered Than the Interests of Commerce?: An Address Delivered Before the Special Committee of House of Representatives of Navigation Interests, Hon. John Lynch, Chairman; Washington, March 19, 1870 The first was undertaken at the request of the New York Board of Underwriters, and they paid the printer's bill. The second was published at my own expense, but a New York ship-owner volunteered to pay for that. As the underwriters and ship-owners are all interested in having ships to sail from our ports under our own flag, I consider that they have their value received. That is the precise extent of the pecuniary aid that has been afforded, and I am glad that I have accepted that much, as it subtracts from the Odium Of a disinterestedness hard to explain in Washington. I am again indebted to my reviewers for copious ex tracts from my letters, which add to their publicity. As this communication will be very short, I hope they may in their next brochure be willing to quote it entire. I would prefer that there should be no wilful omissions of words calculated to give false impressions, and that there should be no surreptitious use of uncorrected proof sheets. When I spoke Of the Alabama, I called her an infamous pirate. The adjective is omitted in the largely paraded quotation, in order to convey the idea that I approved Of her career. A candid reader will readily understand my meaning to be, that the owners of the ships destroyed by her had no occasion generally for regret, as they were mostly covered by insurance. The real sufferers were those who, like myself, continued through the war to sail their ships under the American flag, paying extra premiums for perseverance in a course which we considered patriotic. 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.