Communication from His Honor the Mayor, Fernando Wood, Transmitted to the Common Council of New-York, January 7th, 1856 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Communication from His Honor the Mayor, Fernando Wood, Transmitted to the Common Council of New-York, January 7th, 1856 (Classic Reprint) written by Fernando Wood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Communication From His Honor the Mayor, Fernando Wood, Transmitted to the Common Council of New-York, January 7th, 1856 Our power is derived from commerce. Our geographical position, together with the energy, industry, ability, and capi tal of our people, has enabled us to outstrip our sister cities in the struggle for commercial mastery, and has placed as among the first cities of the world. Without commerce, we could not have accomplished this; it has added to our population a half million in a quarter of a century has drawn to us the capital and enterprise of every quarter of the earth - has enabled us to lead in works of benevolence, philanthropy and religion; to aid our sister cities and states in building up their own localities, and has developed the agri cultural, mineral, and manufacturing resources of the wholecountry. Without commerce, the new-york Of to-day would have been but little more populous than the new-york of the last cen tury. It is commerce that has made us what we are, and to it we must look to maintain the supremacy we possess. There fore it is important to retain this great element of power un impaired. With it we can be everything-without it, nothing. Now, as this interest, like all others, flourishes most when least subjected to governmental interference, undoubtedly, in a full consideration of the question presented, we cannot overlook the restrictions which have been imposed upon it, by the Federal Government. In my opinion the mode of collecting revenue by imposts, heretofore adopted, has been detrimental not only to our own interests, but to those of the whole country. 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.