Speech #500148346

A very prominent and skillful public speaker went down to Provincetown. in Massachusetts. to make a political speech a little while ago. and thought he could get great favor by denouncing the Bluenoses. It turned out that among the substantial citizens of that town who were voters. of the audience which he was addressing. a very large number of the men who had engaged in the fishery business were natives of the British provinces who had come to this country and become domesticated. Americanized. and naturalized. But what I was saying when the Senator interrupted me was that this policy has been signally vindicated by its success in all our wars. .In the Revolutionary war it has been lately shown by an eminent historical investigator that there was a larger number of seamen than there were of soldiers engaged in the battles. and it was not the tax. it was not the capture of Cornwallis. it was not the discomfiture of the. British arms in our land battles. glorious and brilliant as they were. which led England to make peace.