Cragin, Aaron H. IRON SHIPS AND THE RESTORATION OF COMMERCE SPEECH OF HON. AARON H. CRAGIN, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. FEBRUARY 6, 1873.
Washington, D.C.: Chronicle Publishing Company, 1873. Unopened folded pamphlet; 16 pp. Good plus with light soiling; paper brittle. Aaron H. Cragin (1821–1898), American Party U.S. Senator from New Hampshire argued in this speech that to keep the United States competitive in the world, we need ships! “I am talking of iron ships, three-thousand iron ships, that do the commerce of the worlds. These are the ships we want, those are the ships we must have or else we can not compete with other nations in this traffic.”
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